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Amanda Bridges, DNP, ACNP-BC

Assistant Professor/Clinical

Dr. Bridges is an accomplished assistant professor and acute care nurse practitioner with over five years of full-time faculty experience and 30 years of clinical experience in cardiac thoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, and hospital medicine. Her commitment to nursing education includes assisting with curriculum development and competency-based education implementation, chairing multiple governance committees that include the Committee on Graduate Studies and the Committee on Faculty, Staff and Student Matters.  She is dedicated to student success and has voluntarily chaired over 10 quality improvement projects and volunteered to mentor several graduate AG-ACNP students. She developed her own successful DNP quality improvement project on advanced care planning that won the prestigious Dean’s award from The George Washington University and was later published as an exemplar in the textbook, The DNP Project.  She is actively involved in nursing leadership at both the state, National and university level.  She is a board member and secretary of the Texas Nurses Foundation, has served as Sigma Theta Tau Internal Councilor for the UTHSCSA School of Nursing and is a member of the Texas Nurses Association and National League of Nurses.