Biography
Angela Jun is a clinical associate professor in the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California. Irvine. Jun received her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of San Diego and Master of Science in Nursing in the family nurse practitioner track from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has more than 30 years of experience in nursing and nine years in higher education. At UCI, she leads the DNP project planning and implementation for DNP doctoral students and serves as a member at the multiple committees within UCI. She practices as a family nurse practitioner at the UCI Student Health Center. She is currently involved in global educational work with the School of Nursing at Zera International College of Health Sciences in Zambia. Before UCI’s appointment, Jun was an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University, teaching major didactic courses in the family nurse practitioner program. Her clinical and QI interests include palliative care/end-of-life, mental health, health disparity, health care professional burnouts, and global health.
Research Interests
Hospice and palliative care in geriatric population, dementia and mental health in geriatric population, provider burnout, health disparity, care management for adult population
Education
DNP, University of San Diego. 2013
MSN, University of California, Los Angeles, Family Nurse Practitioner, 2005
BSN, Yonsei University, Nursing, 1989
Honors and Awards
- 2005 National Honor Student Award, UCLA
- 2003 Recipient of The Audrienne H. Moseley Scholarship, UCLA
- 1989 Nominee for Best Student, Yonsei University
Publications
- Jun, A., Bau, S., Kim, S. J., Phillips, S. J. (2025). Overview of chronic hepatitis B management. The Nurse Practitioner, 50 (1), 7-13. DOI: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000000000000246
- Assayag, L. King, C., Jun, A. (2024). Multimodal palliative education integrated with cutting-edge technology for acute care nurses. Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice. (accepted)
- German, P., Lazenby, M., Phillips, S., Jun, A. (2024). The effect of a quality improvement project on improving patients’ willingness to receive an influenza vaccination in the emergency department, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 26, 474-481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-023-01574-2
- Kim, L. Y., Martinez-Hollingworth, A., Aronow, H., Caffe, I., Xu, W., Khanbijian, C., Lee, M., Coleman, B., Jun, A. (2023). The association between Korean American nurse and primary care provider burnout, areas of worklife, and perceptions of pandemic experience: Cross-sectional study, Asian Pac Isl Nurs J, 7:e42490 doi: 10.2196/42490
- Jun, A. (2022). Non-physician health care providers in the United States: Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. Global Social Security Review, Spring 20, 14-28
- Jun, A., & Yuhan, K. (2021). Role of primary care providers for uveitis. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 17, 1194-1198.
- Jun, A., Sohn, S. & Lee, J. (2021). Lived experience of Korean immigrant nurse practitioners. Journal of Comprehensive Nursing Research and Care. 6 (2):175
