Julee Waldrop, DNP, is a clinical professor and is certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP), family nurse practitioner (FNP), Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Adult/Adolescent (SANE-A), and Nurse Educator (CNE). She has been a nurse practitioner since 1991 and taught nursing since 1994. She also serves as editor-in-chief of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, the premier clinical journal for the profession. She co-hosts the podcast “JNP Behind the Article” and is a coach for the Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Institute at Duke University.
Julee began her academic career at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has held joint appointments in the School of Medicine and School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina. Served as the director of the clinical track MSN-DNP Program at the University of Central Florida and has practiced as an NP in 5 different states, primarily with underserved women and children. She especially loves helping a student or practicing NP enter the scholarly realm by presenting at a conference or publishing a paper. Julee is an advocate for high-quality graduate nursing education and clinical scholarship. Julee is also a fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nursing.
She is a certified yoga teacher who loves long-distance running, being outside, quilting, reading, and listening to audiobooks in her spare time.