Claire Duerson

RN, BSN

Nursing Experience

PACU

Critical Care

Pre-Op

Education

Texas Christian University

Emory University

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Current City

Las Vegas, Nevada

Passions

Cooking

Reading

Skincare routine

A Bit About Me

Hi there! I'm Claire, a nurse living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Born and raised in the Peanut Capital of the World, I moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 2014 to obtain my Bachelor of Science in strategic communication (i.e. public relations) at TCU.

I lived in South Korea as a Fulbright scholar for a year and then came home to get my BSN from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

After nearly a year in lockdown due to pandemic, I decided to seize the moment and spontaneously move to sunny Las Vegas.

I want to use this platform to provide evidence-based information about health and wellness.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy my content!

Work Experience

October 2021 - Present

April 2021 - October 2021

January 2021 - April 2021

August 2019 - December 2021

I currently work as a pre-op and PACU nurse at an ambulatory surgery center. I provide evidence-based, high quality care while inserting IVs, teaching discharge instructions and recovering patients from anesthesia. I begin my DNP program in May of 2022.

I started working in an intermediate care (IMC) unit in Las Vegas, Nevada to expand my bedside skills. I encountered many challenges that made me question everything I had learned about nursing. I also discovered my passion for patient education, and I decided that I wanted to use my skills as a nurse, communicator, and educator to improve health literacy and access to accurate health information. To this end, I am currently pursuing my doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

I started my nursing career in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) where I grew up volunteering in my hometown of Dothan, Alabama. I fell in love with this nursing specialty and was so grateful for the rare opportunity to start my career in the PACU.

Following my time in Korea, I achieved a life-long dream by obtaining my Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) from Emory University through the accelerated BSN program, despite the start of the global pandemic.

July 2018 - July 2019

After graduation, I moved to South Korea with the Fulbright Program to teach English as an English teaching assistant (ETA). This was an eye-opening experience that challenged my views on culture, language, education and teaching.

August 2014 - May 2018

I moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to obtain my Bachelor of Science in strategic communication. Here, I joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, was President of IJM at TCU and studied subjects like the Nature of Giving in addition to my public relations studies.