Kristina Barkey

Job title

• Adjunct Instructor of Nursing
  Post-Baccalaureate Nursing (B.S), College of Adult and Professional Studies

Highlight

Kristina Barkey (BU '85) joins the faculty with thirty years of clinical experience as an RN in a high volume, high risk Labor & Delivery unit in Northern New Jersey. Since 2011 she has been a part of medical mission teams that travel annually from her healthcare system to both Haiti and the Philippines. A career highlight was being presented with the "Inspiring Global Nurse Award" at the United Nations, NY, in May 2018 for my work addressing healthcare disparity. She is passionate about maternal health and providing best practice.

Started at Bethel

September 2020

Education

• Bethel University - B.S. in Nursing, 1985
• Capella University - M.S. in Nursing Education, 2018

Biography

I come from a strong heritage of Christian faith and integrate my own personal faith in Christ into my daily life. I am an active member in a Lutheran Church in New Jersey, taking multiple opportunites for leadership and service. During my years as a student at Bethel Univesrity, I had the opportunity to travel to Ecuador for a cross cultural nursing class. That was my first opportunity to see first hand healthcare disparity and observe vulnerable populations. While I took the next 20 years to raise my family and work part time, that experience in Ecuador has stayed a significant part of my life. In 2011 I start traveling with medical mission trips and have aligned my Christian heart to serve with my nursing skill set. That has lead to leadership opportunites and I humbly move forward seeing how the Lord can use my experiences, work and faith to positively challenge and impact vulnerable populations and the next generation of nurses.

Courses taught

Clinical Adjunct Professor, Maternal Child Health, County College of Morris NJ, 2018-present

 Cultural Diversity in Health, Bethel University, RN-BSN, Spring 2021

 Nursing Leadership, Bethel University, RN-BSN Spring 2022

Awards

2018--"Inspiring Global Nurse Award"-- presented at the United Nations, NY for my work addressing healthcare disparity internationally

Presentations

Human Trafficking and Healthcare Professionals--based on the United Nations and Global Strategic Operatives

Global Health and Medical Missions

Maternal Child presentation--High Risk complications

Finding Significance and Purpose--aimed at young adults

 

 

Certificates and licenses

RNC-OB, RN Certification-Inpatient Obstetrics

NJ Board of Nursing

MN Board of Nursing

Current certifications in BLS, ACLS, NRP

 

Professional organizations, committees, and boards

National League of Nursing

Global Strategic Operatives--United Nations, NY--professional speaker educating healthcare systems how to identify & assist human trafficking patients

Board of Directors, Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, Fergus Falls, MN

Hobbies and interests

Family, faith, travel and being outdoors!!

Areas of expertise

Maternal Child Healthcare Global healthcare missions

Research interests

Medical Volunteerism: How to Create Good and Prevent Harm

Teaching specialty

Maternal Child Healthcare Nursing Leadership Cultural Diversity Human Trafficking--identification of patients and transfer to trauma informed care

Quote

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give--Winston Churchill