Jacquie Hanks joined the College of Nursing in 2015, teaching undergraduate pediatrics.  As a nurse practitioner in the division of hospital medicine, pulmonary medicine, and oncology/bone marrow transplant at Children's Hospital Omaha and University of Nebraska Medical Center, she gained the experience that led her to teaching graduate nursing.  Jacquie Hanks has research interests in long-term ventilator-dependent children, transitions of care and discharge of children with complex medical conditions, implicit bias and empathy in the health professions and interdisciplinary simulation.