Victoria Kyarsgaard DNP, C-NP, RNC, PHN
Hamel, MN 55340-9689
H: 763-***-**** C: 612-***-****
E-mail: ad8nnq@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Goals
To utilize my education and nursing experience to provide excellent primary care to patients across the lifespan, focus promoting health equity and personal health care choices.
Education
Purdue-Global University Indianapolis, IN
Graduate Nursing Program, FNP Certificate May 2020- May 2023
Clinicals
June-August 2021 with Community Care Clinics in Mpls & St. Cloud with Dr. Robert Larbi-Odam. Serving all ages as a primary care student with a primarily Somali immigrant population.
Women’s Health Clinical November 2021 – February 2022.with Open Cities Clinics, St Paul, MN, with Chelsea Johnson, PA-C.
Pediatric and Adolescent Care, New Kingdom Healthcare. Stacy Woodard, FNP, May 4, 2022 – June 2022. (clinic focuses on patient healthcare choice)
Health Partners Clinic with Rachael Pickett Theel, APRN, FNP-C, March 1, 2123 - April 26, 2023
St Catherine University, St Paul, Minnesota
Doctor of Nurse Practice (DNP), December 2012, (nursing education focus)
Systems Change Project, “Accessing the Development of Undergraduate Nursing Students on Their Cultural Awareness Journey”
Advisor: Rozina Bhimani, PhD, DNP
Walden University, Online
September 2009 to April 2010
College of Education, Higher Education and Adult Learning.
University of Minnesota Graduate School, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Master of Science (MS), May 2005, Plan; Nursing Education,
Teacher Education Sequence (TES), for vocational licensure, September 1999
Bachelor of Science (BS), in Nursing with Distinction, March 1975
Licensure
Registered Nurse, Minnesota (1975 – 1/31/25)
PHN, Minnesota (1976 – current)
CNP – Minnesota, August 2023 – January 31, 2028
Certificates
FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner 6/21/2023 - 6/20/2028
In-Patient Obstetrics by the National Certification Corporation for the Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing Specialties (9/15/25)
American Heart Association BLS for HCP
Awards and Fellowships
Frontiers in Physiology Fellowship (Molecular biology lab research and national poster presentation) American Physiological Society (APS) June 1999-April 2000
Educator Experience
Crown College, St Bonifacius, MN
Professor, Nursing Department, 2006 – 2021
Community Health, OB & Peds, Leadership, Patho-Physiology, Pharmacology,
Online educator and RN-BSN program coordinator
Five service-learning trips to East, Central and West Africa, supervising Crown nursing students in African clinics
University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN
Adjunct Clinical Instructor; Nursing Department, 2013-present
Planned, supervised, and evaluated student clinical performance for two groups of beginning students on a medical-surgical unit, Advanced students on Med-Surg and OB Units
Publications and Presentations
Poster Presentation at the Henry Street Consortium Conference; "Do One / Teach One; Student Led Simulation,” September 2018
Chapter author for “Davis Essential Nursing Content + Practice Questions; Maternal-Newborn,” (2017). Whitworth, S. and McMullan, T. F.A. Davis; Philadelphia, PA. Ch. 1 “Anatomy and Physiology of Male and Female Reproduction Systems,” and Ch. 9 “Anatomy and Physiology of Pregnancy”
Contributing author; “Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual: The Henry Street Model for Nurses” 2011; Sigma Theta Tau International
“Christian Nursing” & “Spiritual Assessment and Nursing Care” presentations to HEAL Africa doctors and nurses, Goma, DRC
Associations
American Nurses Association (ANA)
American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
Nurses Christian Fellowship (NCF)