Deborah B. Jacques

Deborah Jacques is an acute care nurse practitioner with clinical experience in cardiology and cardiac surgery. She teaches the APEA review courses & Clinical Update for Acute Care nurse practitioners. She is dual certified as an Adult-Gero Primary Care NP and Adult-Gero acute nurse practitioner. Dr. Jacques has been a Nurse since 1993 and a Nurse Practitioner since 2017. During her years in practice, she has worked teaching/leading as department chair in an undergrad nursing program, an Adjunct lecturer at Our Lady of Elms College in their Acute Care Program, and acting as a preceptor to training/newly hired NPs in the cardiac surgery department. She has presented both nationally and internationally on the topic of high fidelity simulation in healthcare. She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.