Pamela Holtz

Pam Holtz has worked with Simmons University for 8 years as an adjunct instructor and course lead for the clinical decision-making courses in the nurse practitioner program. She has experience in family practice, pain management, addiction medicine, and emergency medicine. She began her career doing medical research at the University of Minnesota where her work took her to the hospital setting where she discovered that the job of the nurse appeared to be more rewarding than her job in the lab. She then became a registered nurse, and she worked in a variety of settings. Later in her career she became a nurse practitioner. She had always enjoyed mentoring and teaching new nurses so she completed her DNP degree so that she could become an educator in a nurse practitioner program. Through her work as an instructor in the clinical courses, she plays an integral role in the guidance of many students as they complete their clinical experiences at Simmons University.

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