Dewanna Blake

Dewanna Blake is a registered nurse with over thirty years of health care experience. She has worked as a nurse educator in academia for the past 15 years. Clincal areas of expertise include the emergency department and mental health. Nursing subject matter expertise includes medical-surgical, mental health, and practicum courses. Dewanna holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nursing Education & Leadership from Chamberlain University and a Masters in Nursing Education from the University of Phoenix.

She has served as a Peer Evaluator with the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) for the past five years. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the American Psychological Association.

Courses Taught

XA 3004 - Health Equity and Advocacy and Political Engagement

XC 4000 - BSN Capstone

Education

DNP, Chamberlain University

MSN, University of Phoenix

Publications

Blake, D. (2020). Promoting stigma self-awareness in nursing students through brief unconventional clinical experiences. Teaching and Learning in Nursing

Blake, D. (2022). The implications of the copy-paste function on the redundancy of documentation in the EHR. Journal of American Health Information Management Association

Presentations

Blake, D. (2025). A Primary Care Quality Improvement Project: PHQ-9 Screening in the Diabetic Population. Sigma Region 6

Blake, D. (2024). A quality improvement initiative to identify depression in adults with diabetes using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Survey . Louisiana Tech University Division of Nursing

Blake, D. (2024). Using the PHQ-9 To Identify Depression in Persons with Diabetes. Nurse Educator Conference in the Rockies