Patricia H CoxPatricia H. Cox, DNP, MPH, MN, BSN, RN, recently retired as the Director of Doctoral Nursing Education & Practice at the School of Nursing at the University of Portland. Her long career in nursing took her from the bedside as an Army nurse to workingas a public health nurse with migrant farmworkers and then Lao refugees in Thailand. Along the way, she advanced her education while caringfor HIV/AIDS patients as a nurse practitioner in the early days of the epidemic. Later she provided primary care to Native American and Hispanic populations in a community clinic in Los Angeles. Always supportive of nursing education, Cox served as adjunct faculty in several nursing programs prior to relocating to Portland to teach full time and prepare the next generation of nurse practitioners in the DNP Program at the University of Portland. Read More Read Less