School of Nursing assistant clinical professor Angela Jun, DNP.
Ten years into her registered nursing career in the US, assistant clinical professor Angela Jun, DNP, FNP-BC, ACHPN, returned to school for her family nurse practitioner degree.
Her clinical experience is in the primary care and geriatric setting, where she cared for everyone from children to seniors with a variety of conditions.
She got to know the geriatric population especially well. After her experiences working with seniors older than 85, she earned her certification in hospice and palliative care.
Need for geriatric nursing workforce
When she made the decision to become a nurse practitioner, Jun attended an information session at a regional university.
She was intrigued by the presentation on geriatric nursing. The presenter predicted that within a decade, the need for geriatric nursing workforce would explode. She was right.
“This population is getting old. We need innovative ways of taking care of this population,” Jun says. She has been planning a community organizing activity for connecting youth and geriatrics populations.
This July, she joined the faculty of the UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing. One day a week, she will work at Gottschalk Medical Plaza. Currently, she works at one of the COVID test tents in Irvine. The test sites are the result of a partnership between nurse practitioner faculty and UCI Health.
Teaching advanced pharmacology
Starting this fall, Jun will teach an advanced pharmacology course to manage acute and chronic conditions. Her course will focus on wholistic management of conditions.
“Medication is important, but it’s not everything. When possible, we like to recommend other interventions.”
She will also teach the DNP Scholarly project series. In this course, she will guide DNP students from project planning to data collection and final dissemination of their projects.
A passion for singing
As part of her role as vice president of the Korean American Nurses Association of Southern California, Jun is also working for more Asian representation in healthcare. “We have so many different groups and we’re not well represented.”
In her downtime, Jun loves to sing at home and in her choir at church. One year, she joined the Orange County Women’s Choir, though she has since left because of time constraints. Three years ago, she performed with them at Carnegie Hall and cherishes the experience.
Her husband is an engineer, and her daughter is a senior in nursing school. Her son heads off to college this year.
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