Jennifer Painter appointed director of Nursing Professional Development and Education

Jennifer Painter, MSN, APRN, CNS, RN-BC, OCN, AOCNS, has been appointed director for Nursing Professional Development and Education. Painter has been a nurse for 17 years, with 14 years at Christiana Care Health System.

Painter has served as a staff education specialist and the nursing school coordinator/faculty liaison with the Nursing Professional Development and Education Department for the last four years. During that time, her additional responsibilities have included the facilitation of Christiana Care’s nursing pre-pay BSN, MSN and DNP programs, the BSN strategic plan for the system, and the coordination, revision and successes of the student nurse extern program.

She began as a staff LPN and then RN on 6C (Hematology/Oncology). She later joined the cancer research team at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and then Nursing Development and Education in 2012. She was responsible for nursing school affiliations/relationships and processes with 30 nursing schools.

She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on nursing professional development. She was a finalist for the 2015 Excellence in Nursing Practice award for the state of Delaware in the Educator category, as well as a finalist for the Delaware Today Top Nurse award in 2016.

She currently is completing her certification as a Juran Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt and is enrolled in the DNP program at Wilmington University.