I spent the early years of my life in public housing, I have spent my life in service to the community, first as a teacher in the Edgewood Independent School District and a Caseworker for San Antonio Catholic Family and Children services, before embarking on a career in nursing education. I served the needs of the San Antonio population as a nurse, a nurse educator, an advocate for the underserved population, and an advocate for health policy changes in regard to healthcare. I specialized in Psychiatric Nursing and was Director of Nursing at several hospitals. During Desert Storm I was assigned to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort. Bliss, Texas where I earned Achievement and Commendation Medals. I have a PhD in Cultural Foundations from the University of Texas at Austin. I subsequently earned two postdoctoral fellowships at the Indiana University School of Nursing. I am a member of the graduate faculty of the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing, where I currently serve as a tenured Professor. I co-founded a non- profit organization, Martinez Street Women Center whose primary purpose is to provide support and educational services to women and female adolescents. At the University of Texas Health Science Center, I founded Juntos Podemos, a mentorship program for nursing students and was funded for 17 years. I collaborated with the US Western District Court Probation Office to provide a female specific program for women convicted of a federal felon and under community supervision. I began this program to prevent relapse/recidivism. It was the only female group in the Western District Court. In November 2006 I was selected to be a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) which is the highest honor one can achieve in nursing. I am the past President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN). I was a founding Commissioner of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) which examines how Medicaid physician pay affects access to care by Medicaid patients and those in the Children`s Health Insurance Program, among other issues. I founded the International Association of Latino Nurse Faculty and serve as president. I am now the chair of PTAC for the school of nursing. Presently I have a $2,583,704 Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grant to recruit and engage traditional program baccalaureate nursing students to engage in community-based primary care to help the undeserved population. In total I have been funded $7,733,759 for the School of Nursing. This indicates my commitment to nursing and advocating for students and the underserved population.
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Year | Degree | Discipline | Institution |
2006 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cultural Competency | American Hospital Association-Health, Research, Education and Training Chicago , IL |
1997 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Research for Community Health | Indiana University, School of Nursing Bloomington , IN |
1996 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Cultural Aspects of Nursing | Indiana University, School of Nursing Bloomington , IN |
1995 | PhD | Cultural Foundations in Education | The University of Texas at Austin Austin , TX |
1978 | MSN | Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio , TX |
1968 | MA | Counseling | St. Mary's University San Antonio , TX |
1965 | BSN | Nursing | Incarnate Word College San Antonio , TX |
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7/2009 - Present | Professor | University of Texas Health San Antonio, School of Nursing, San Antonio, TX |
Advancing Community Oriented Registered Nursing (A - Recruit and engage traditional program baccalaureate nursing students to engage in community-based primary care to help the undeserved population. |
Avanzar (To Advance) - Developing and implementing a pre-nursing program at a liberal arts university. Research is conducted to measure the effectiveness of this pre-nursing program. |
Juntos Podemos (Together We Can) - A mentorship project for nursing students to help them become academically successful. Research is focused on measuring strategies for recruitment and retention. |
Nueva Fronteras (New Frontiers) - A project on the prevention of relapse/recidivism of federal female offenders who are under community supervision in the US Western District Court. Research is focused on evaluating an intervention program that was developed and implemented for this population. |
Nursing - Counseling, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Cultural Foundations in Education, Cultural Aspects of Nursing, Research for Community Health, Cultural Competency |
Nursing - Developing a culturally inclusive community of healthcare professionals. |
Abstract |
Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN NM. Advancing Community Oriented Registered Nursing: Educating Baccalaureate Nursing Students in Primary Care; 2019 Nov. |
Zamora H, Rogers NM. Adelante: Moving Forward to Increase Nursing Workforce Diversity; 2017 Apr. (4th Annual Cultural Inclusion Institute). |
Moreno M, Zamora H, Rogers NM. Growing a Health Professional: An Adelante Student`s Success Story; 2017 Apr. (4th Annual Cultural Inclusion Institute). |
Rogers NM, Zamora H, Porter-Wenzlaff LJ. International Collaboration to Impact Health Through Enhanced Baccalaureate Teaching and Clinical Development; 2016 Oct. (XV Pan American Nursing Research Colloquium). |
Journal Article |
Jessop MA, Oerther S, Gance B, Cleveland L, Czubaruk K, Byrne M, D'Apolito K, Adams S, Braxter B, Rogers NM. Pregnant and Parenting Women with a Substance Use Disorder: Actions and Policy for Enduring Therapeutic Practice Nursing Outlook 2019 Mar;67(2). |
Zamora, H., & Martinez Rogers, N. Adelante (Moving Forward): A Program for Nursing and Pre-Nursing Students Nursing Education Perspectives 2019 Jan;. |
Rogers NM, Cantu AG. The Nurse`s Role in the Prevention of Cervical Cancer among Underserved and Minority Populations Journal of Community Health Nursing 2009 Apr;34(2):135-143. |
Cantu AG, Rogers NM. Creating a Mentoring and Community Culture in Nursing Hispanic Health Care International 2007 Jan;5(3). |
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Rogers, PhD, RN, FAAN NM. Faculty Policy Think Tank - Report and Recommendations American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2017 Oct;. |
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Funding Agency | Health Resources and Services Administration |
Title | Advancing Community Oriented Registered Nursing (ACORN) |
Status | Active |
Period | 7/2018 - 6/2022 |
Role | Principal Investigator |
Grant Detail | The purpose of this grant is to develop and sustain a recruitment and retention plan for baccalaureate nursing students (BSN) who are interested in practicing in community-based primary care settings. This plan designed to provide BSN students with essential competencies and skill sets in population health, chronic disease prevention and management, team-based interprofessional primary care, and culturally inclusive care coordination, which address the social determinants of health, such as poverty, addiction, etc. Baccalaureate nursing students will have learning and practice opportunities in primary practice sites that emphasize chronic disease prevention and management, including mental health and substance abuse services. This will strengthen the innovative and comprehensive nature of primary care delivered in existing sites and newly established sites in accordance with the linkage/partnership requirement in Section 802 (d) of the Public Health Service Act. The University of Texas Health San Antonio (UT Health SA) teaches its students that include nursing, medicine, dentistry, and allied health services (biomedical sciences and health professions), the importance of prevention, health promotion and education, as well as, care coordination and service navigation, for individuals, families, and the community served. |
Funding Agency | Health Resources and Services Administration |
Title | Adelante (Moving Forward) |
Status | Complete |
Period | 7/2015 - 12/2017 |
Role | Principal Investigator |
Grant Detail | The purpose of this grant is to increase nursing education opportunities by assisting nursing students from an educationally/economically disadvantaged background who are in an accelerated and traditional nursing program by providing academic, moral, and financial support for successful advancement of their nursing education while recognizing the social determinants of health they have faced. This project will further diversify the professional and graduate level workforce through activities that utilize the social determinants of health to frame pre-entry recruitment, a pre-preparation program, a retention program which includes mentorship, and stipends and/or scholarships. Pre-entry recruitment and the development of a pre-preparation program will be conducted in partnership with the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Health Professions? office. |