Kristen L. Slabaugh, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, CNE

Women’s Health, Family Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration, Board exam preparation

• BSN Messiah College
• MS, Family Nurse Practitioner (Pennsylvania State University)
• DNP, Family Nurse Practitioner (University of South Alabama)
• Nurse Educator Certificate (University of South Alabama)

• NURS 414 Population & Global Health Clinical, Zambia
• HLTH 620 Collaboration in Interprofessional Teams
• NURS 632 DNP Project Proposal
• NURS 715 Clinical Residency
• NURS 731 DNP Project Implementation
• NURS 732 DNP Project Analysis and Evaluation
• NURS 492 Senior Nursing Capstone

Dr. Kristen Slabaugh earned a BSN from Messiah University in 2005 and worked as a Women’s Health and Labor & Delivery Level 4 RN at Hershey Medical Center. She completed an MS Family Nurse Practitioner at Penn State University in 2010 and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (FNP track) with a post-master’s certificate in Nursing Education in 2017. Since 2011, she has been on faculty in the Messiah University Department of Nursing undergraduate and graduate programs. She served as the Coordinator of the DNP program from 2017-2024, Chair of the Interprofessional Education Collaboration committee from 2019-2024, and is a Certified Nurse Educator. She currently serves as the Assistant of Nursing. In 2020, she won the President’s Award for excellence in curricular design/course creation and accreditation preparation. Dr. Slabaugh maintains clinical practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner in urgent care and home health.

Dr. Slabaugh’s scholarly and translational research interests include depression, anxiety, and emotional intelligence in the college-aged and young adult populations, spiritual care, and interprofessional collaboration. She has published in several journals and is a reviewer for the Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. She is a member of the National League for Nursing (NLN), the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF), Sigma Theta Tau International, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

Outside the office, Dr. Slabaugh enjoys traveling, going to the beach with her husband (Messiah ’05) and three children, and managing her hobby farm. She enjoys providing pregnancy, lactation, and post-partum support to new moms and teaching women’s health to middle and high school girls.

1. Slabaugh, K. (2017, December). Initiation of Standardized Depression Screening in College Health: A Quality Improvement Project. Poster session presented at the 5th Annual Geisinger Holy Spirit Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference, Harrisburg, PA.
2. Slabaugh, K. (2018, April). Initiation of Standardized Depression Screening in College Health: A Quality Improvement Project. Poster session presented at the 27th Annual Nursing Research Day, Harrisburg, PA.
3. Brosey, M., Burket, K., & Slabaugh, K. (2021, July). Faculty perspectives of an interprofessional simulation during a pandemic. Poster session presented at Heartland IPEC Conference, virtual format.
4. Slabaugh, K., & Gross, M. (2023, April). Understanding the impact of mental and emotional health on retention of undergraduate nursing students: A descriptive, longitudinal study. Podium presentation at 2023 NLN Nursing Education Research Conference, Washington, D.C.
5. Slabaugh, K., & Burket, K. (2023, April). Enhancing interprofessional education: Creative use of simulation to enhance interprofessional learning opportunities and align with NTF and Essentials through the use of a multi-scene simulation experience. Podium presentation at NONPF 49th Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.
6. Fenstermacher, K. & Slabaugh, K. (2022, March-April). EBP Workshop. Malone University.
7. Slabaugh, K., Wilcock, S., & Harris, S. (2018). Initiation of standardized depression screening in college health: A quality improvement project. Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice, 11(2). doi: 10.1891/2380-9418.11.2.143
8. Slabaugh, K., & Elliott, B. (2022). The positive impact of making time and being present: Spiritual care revisited. Home Healthcare Now, 40(3), 28-32. doi: 10.1097/NHH.0000000000001066
9. Slabaugh, K., Behm, J., & Burket, K. (2023). A multi-scene standardized patient simulation: Meeting interprofessional education competencies. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Interprofessional Education Committee, Messiah University.