Tarnisha Hemphill, D.N.P., CNM, a longtime advocate of improving prenatal care access to underserved populations with health disparities has decided to bring her expertise to GW Nursing as full-time faculty in the nurse-midwifery track.
Dr. Hemphill earned her B.S. in Nursing from Towson University and her M.S.N. with a concentration in Midwifery from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. This June, she completed her D.N.P. in Nurse Education at Regis College. Her doctoral dissertation entitled “An Evidence-Based Obstetric Checklist: An Essential Component in the Delivery of High-Risk Prenatal Care” aimed to encourage obstetric providers to incorporate an evidence-based obstetric checklist into their care practices. This checklist provided health care providers with up-to-date guidelines and policies for managing various high-risk issues. As a result, participants were knowledgeable about high-risk management and engaged in conversations about interpreting evidence-based data.
Prior to joining GW Nursing, Dr. Hemphill worked at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she served as a senior charge nurse facilitating teamwork and functioning as a resource person and liaison to staff, physicians, residents, anesthesiologists, patients, and families. When discussing the importance of teamwork, Hemphill stated that it “provides the group with the opportunity to learn from each other” which she believes plays an important role in allowing people with different experiences and backgrounds to come together to achieve shared goals. Most recently, she served as an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University, where she taught women’s health nurse practitioner and certified nurse-midwifery graduate students.
In joining GW Nursing, Dr. Hemphill hopes to take full advantage of “the opportunity to empower women to become more knowledgeable about health promotion and disease prevention” and mentor new nurses with the goal of helping them excel in the profession.