Danielle McCamey
Nurse Practitioner and Founder/CEO of DNP’s of Color
Danielle McCamey is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and currently serves as the Chief Advanced Practice Provider in the Preanesthesia Testing Department at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. She is also the Founder, President, and CEO of DNP’s of Color. Her interest into nursing began early on as child when she would tag along with her mother on her home health visits. Following in her mother’s footsteps she began her nursing journey as a graduate from the University of Virginia in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Upon graduation, she began working in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at MedStar Georgetown Hospital and later transitioned to a Medical Intensive Care Unit. She then graduated from Georgetown University with her Master’s in Acute Care in 2011.
With encouragement from a mentor and scholarship opportunity, Dr. McCamey completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at Georgetown University in 2017. As the only Black student in her class and one Black DNP faculty member, she was inspired to create DNP’s of Color. Feeling isolated, she created a Facebook group and quickly created community amongst similar individuals who shared similar experiences. The vision of DNP’s of Color is to “inspire, empower, and transform the landscape of nursing by increasing diversity in doctoral nursing practice.”
Outside of DNP’s of Color, Dr. McCamey has invested her time and energy advancing the nursing profession with her leadership, mentorship, and research. She was an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University for Acute Care Nurse Practitioner students. She is a founding member on the Peri-operative Collaborative Practice Committee in the Society of Peri-operative Assessment and Quality Improvement. Her most recent research has focused on health outcomes where she has served as co-investigator to look at using the Duke Activity Status Index Questionnaire to evaluate functional status during pre-anesthesia interviews. Most recently, in September, she presented “ Racism as a Structural Determinant of Health” at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Fall Conference.
She is also a member of multiple key national organizations such as the American College of Chest Physicians, Sigma Theta Tau International, American Nurses Association, and American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
View Danielle’s Nurses You Should Know Video here.
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Know Your History
- Nursing CLIO to engage with historians and scholars committed to deep work around historical accuracy in healthcare and nursing.
- American Association for the History of Nursing to attend monthly webinars on topics of nursing history, view the calendar here.
Examine Bias
- NurseManifest to attend live zoom sessions with fellow nurses on nursing’s overdue reckoning on racism or to sign their pledge.
- Breaking Bias in Healthcare, an online course created by scientist Anu Gupta, to learn how bias is related to our brain’s neurobiology and can be mitigated with mindfulness.
- Revolutionary Love Learning Hub provides free tools for learners and educators to use love as fuel towards ourselves, our opponents, and to others so that we can embody a world where we see no strangers.
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- National Coalition for Ethnic Minority Nurse Association to stay engaged with topics relevant to nurses of color.
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