Erin Najarian, DNP, MSN, AGACNP-BC, RN, CCRN

Dr. Erin Najarian has over 12 years of acute care nursing experience, with her clinical background primarily in critical care. After working as a staff nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, she completed Vanderbilt University’s Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program with Intensivist focus. She maintains certification as a Critical Care Registered Nurse. As a board-certified nurse practitioner, she has worked in hospital medicine at St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas and critical care at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Currently, she works in hospital medicine at multiple Atrium facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a nurse educator at UNC Charlotte, she works with undergraduate nursing students as well as graduate students in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and CRNA programs.

Areas of Research

Critical care nursing, APRN practice, bedside nurse retention, new graduate nurse residency programs, preventative care and hospital readmission rates

Education

DNP, 2022, Vanderbilt University

MS, 2017, Vanderbilt University, Nursing, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner- Intensivist Focus

BS, 2012, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nursing

Diploma, 2010, Mercy School of Nursing

BA, 2008, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology

External Affiliation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

American Association of Nurse Practitioners