Kathryn Fiandt PhD, APRN-NP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Dr. Fiandt has been a family nurse practitioner since 1976. Since then she has maintained an active practice with clinical expertise is in the areas of chronic disease management and practice improvement. She is particularly interested in innovative models of care for “high need, high cost” patients. She has been active in the nursing managed health center movement since 1990, serving as the clinical director of three nurse-managed health centers since 1990. In all three nurse managed centers she supported an active interprofessional practice and education model. She was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center from 1993 until 2007. During that time she directed the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and became the Director of the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice. She was one of the founding faculty advisors for the SHARING Clinic. In 2007 she moved to Galveston TX where she served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University Of Texas Medical Branch College Of Nursing. In 2014 she returned to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where she was the inaugural Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships from 2014-2023. She retired in Dec. 2023 and still does mentoring and leadership coaching through her Coaching NPs for Success practice. In addition to being active in several nursing organizations, Dr. Fiandt is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow (2004 Cohort). She is active in her local faith community addressing environmental and social justice concerns and serves as the President of the Board of Directors of North Omaha Area Health, a nurse run clinic serving a marginalized community of uninsured people.
Dr. Fiandt received her BSN from the Univ. of Maryland (WRAIN) and her MSN, Specialist in Clinical Nursing (Primary Care) and PhD (Nursing) from Indiana University.