Therese Hidalgo, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, is a clinician educator - assistant professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing. She has been a registered nurse for 40 years and a family nurse practitioner for the last 27 years. As an advanced practice nurse, she has provided comprehensive primary care to an underserved population in New Mexico for over 20 years. She has also practiced at many School-Based Health Centers throughout New Mexico. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from New Mexico State University in 2015; her scholarly project was entitled "An Implementation and Evaluation Plan to Overcome Operational Barriers for School-Based Health Centers to Provide Adolescent Vaccines." She graduated from the UNM College of Nursing with both her Master of Science in Nursing (1991) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1979) degrees.
Hidalgo has taught various advanced practice nursing and doctoral students in the graduate program for the past six years. She is the faculty coordinator for OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) and the Clinical Student Success Coordinator for the graduate program.
Awards she is most proud of include being selected among her peers as the 2013 New Mexico State Nurse Practitioner of the Year. She also received the Linda Juszczak Legacy Scholarship Award in 2015 at the National School-Based Health Alliance Conference in Austin, Texas. Her most recent achievement was the completion of the two-year Medical Education Scholars Program, where she developed her coaching curriculum, entitled "Clinical Coaching: A Curriculum for Struggling First-Year Family Nurse Practitioner Students." She has presented locally around New Mexico on various topics for HSC educators and clinicians at the UNM School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education Office and preceptors from around the state at the Annual Preceptor Workshop, as well as nationally at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty and the National Alliance for School-Based Health Centers.
