Audrey Snyder, PhD, RN, CEN, CCRN, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAEN, FAAN is a passionate nurse practitioner, educator and researcher, who is board-certified as an acute care nurse practitioner and family nurse practitioner. She has spent her 39 years in nursing in emergency, flight and critical care nursing and nursing education. She received her Diploma in Nursing in 1984 at The Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Danville, Virginia; her RN-BSN in 1989; MSN in 1991; Post Master’s ACNP certificate in 1998; and her PhD focused on nursing from the University of Virginia in 2007. She holds an FNP Post-Master’s Certificate from the University of Northern Colorado.
Audrey is a professor and associate dean for experiential learning and innovation in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro; a nurse practitioner with the palliative medicine team that covers the emergency departments with Cone Health; and a member of the NC-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team. She has taught multidisciplinary public health and disaster preparedness classes for more than 13 years and conducted research on disaster resilience.
She has experience in disaster preparedness and response internationally, having participated in earthquake responses in El Salvador and Haiti; refugee response at the United States-Mexico border; and by developing a disaster response in the Caribbean. Most recently, she helped educate nurses in Moldova as they work with refugees from Ukraine.
Her areas of specialization include emergency and critical care advanced practice nursing; disaster preparedness and response; public health, international health; community engagement; end-of-life care; and nursing education. Her research interests include interprofessional education; emergency nursing; disaster preparedness, resilience and response; evaluating methods to improve access to health care locally and globally; and nursing history. Her significant contributions have focused on disaster resilience; promoting access to care for rural and underserved populations; and decreasing barriers to access advanced education for rural nurses.
Audrey serves as the program director of the Transforming Primary Advanced Practice in Medically Underserved Communities HRSA Nursing Workforce Development grant; the Simulation, Education and Training HRSA grant; and the Mobile Health HRSA grant at UNC Greensboro. A new mobile health program will increase access to health care for residents of rural and underserved communities in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. She has a passion for building working teams to address community and educational needs.
She has been honored as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Academy of Emergency Nurses and the American Academy of Nursing.