Kathryn Keller

Biography

Katie Keller began working in the College of Nursing in 2022. She started my journey as a nurse after graduating from Oklahoma Baptist University in 2011. She has worked in a variety of areas as a nurse including a step-down ICU, a neuro floor, and the emergency department. She found her passion to help people facing serious illness and end-of-life after caring for patients in an inpatient hospice unit.

After discovering this passion, Keller obtained her master’s degree in nursing in 2017 from the University of Tampa. After graduating, she worked as a palliative care nurse practitioner in an outpatient setting and enjoyed getting to know her patients and families, educating them about their disease process, and empowering them to make informed decisions. Since her journey began at the University of Tennessee, she has had the opportunity to lecture in pathophysiology and nursing care of the adult, assist with health assessment, clinicals, labs, simulation, and create a specialty course focused on aging adults, palliative care, and hospice.

Her goal is to empower students and to prepare them to be confident, competent nurses who will impact the lives of the people they care for every day.