Teresa Dawn Ritchie, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC

Associate Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Nursing

Department:

WVU School of Nursing Beckley Campus

Classification:

Faculty

Assistant Professor
Coordinator FNP Program

Organization:

West Virginia University Charleston Campus

Department:

WVU School of Nursing Charleston Campus

Classification:

Faculty

• DNP, West Virginia University, 2011
• MSN, West Virginia University, 2001
• BSN, West Virginia University, 1999
• ADN, Parkersburg Community College, 1976

• Appointed to advisory board - (January 1, 2022)
• Nightingale Award - (September 29, 2018)
• Officer WV Board of Nursing - (August 15, 2016)
• Excellence in Women's Health Award - (May, 2009)
• Governor's Appointment State Board of Nursing WV - (January, 2009)

• Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers - American Heart Association (2020)

Dr. Ritchie is an associate professor in the school of nursing at WVU, and currently the BSN Program Interim Chair of the Beckley Campus. She has been faculty at WVU for 12 years and Coordinator for the Family Nurse Practitioner track prior to her current interim position. She is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and has practiced for 20 years, most of which has been in a rural primary health care center. Dr. Ritchie began teaching in 2000 at Glenville State College where she was a clinical instructor in the undergraduate nursing program. She joined West Virginia University in 2009. As a clinician, Dr. Ritchie currently practices at Minnie Hamilton Health Systems in Calhoun County where she sees patients across the life span in primary care and medication assisted treatment for opioid dependence. In 2005, Dr. Ritchie’s rural practice in primary care was featured in the US News and World Report, highlighting the contribution of nurse practitioners in leading change in the delivery of healthcare across the country. With a current focus on addiction nursing, Dr. Ritchie is committed to the prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of addictive disorders and serves as an officer on the executive board of the WV chapter of the International Nursing Society on Addiction (IntNSA). Recent grant participation includes WVU faculty INSPIRE to care grant focusing on collaboration with healthcare partners to meet the care needs of vulnerable, rural and underserved areas in WV and enhance APRN learning experiences, and current participation on a grant to expand treatment in primary care clinics for patients suffering with addiction. In 2021, Dr. Ritchie & colleages received a grant from WV Higher Education Policy Commission to develop a shadowing course on the WVU Tech campus to give students experiences in various healthcare professsions helping them decide on program of study. The grant was renewed for Spring semester 2022.

Teaching interests: FNP Practicum Courses
Nursing Theory
Health Promotion
Advanced Health Assessment

Adolescent Obesity
Enhancing student learning in an online class

• Integrated Health Shadowing Experience - Renewed funding - WV Higher Education Policy Commission - 2022 - 2022
• Integrated Health Shadowing Experience - WV Higher Education Policy Commission - 2021 - 2022