Dr. Cook earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree in Nursing from Texas Woman's University, and obtained a Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from University of Mississippi.  Her varied nursing experiences include medical/respiratory intensive care, maternal-newborn, as well as full-scope nurse-midwifery practice.  Dr. Cook held a faculty position in the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology at LSU School of Medicine-Shreveport prior to joining NSU.  More recently, Faculty practice has included providing care to women in a low-income clinic.  In addition to teaching various MSN and Nurse Practitioner core courses via compressed video and the Internet, Dr. Cook coordinates the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner program.

This endowed professorship will permit me to:

• Attend a national/regional conference relevant to the advanced nursing practice management of Women's Health Care issues, problems and concerns in order to update my clinical knowledge and skills which will be shared with NP students.
• Purchase instructional and/or reference materials to support student and clinical preceptor learning at WHNP student clinical sites, esp. in central Louisiana.