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Associate Professor of Nursing
Department Chair, DNP Programs and Scholarship

Telephone number  (904) 256-8926
Email address  rchrist6@ju.edu       
Office location  AHSC 2193
Downloadable resume or CV  CV

Office Hours:
By appointment

Education

EdD, Educational Leadership-Curriculum & Instruction, University of Phoenix
MS Applied Business Analytics, 91香蕉视频,(August, 2026)
MSN, Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, University of North Florida
BSN, (Summa Cum Laude), University of North Florida
Watson Caring Science Postdoctoral Scholar (2019-2020)

Professional Information

Dr. Roberta Christopher is a tenured Assiocate Proessor and Department Chair of DNP Programs and Scholarships at 91香蕉视频's Keigwin School of NUrsing (KSON). With more than 27 years of experience in nursing, she has dedicated her career to advancing healthcare through education, clinical informatics, evidence-based practice, and the strategie integration of artificial intelligence and data analytics into doctoral nursing education. Dr. Christopher earned both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN, Summa Cum Laude) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from the University of North Florida, where she was certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She completed her Doctorate in Educational Leadership with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Phoenix, with disseration research examining the relationship among presenteeism, absenteeism, nurse safety outcomes, and quality of care. She is currently pursing a Mater of Science in Applied Business Analytics (MSABA) at JU's Davis Business & Technology, with advanced coursework in machine learning, predictive modeling, data mining, and SQL, and is a 2026 inductee of Bata Gamma Sigma, the international business honor society.

Dr. Christopher is emerging as a national voice on artificial intelligence in nursing education. She is an active member of the KSON AI Intergration of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2026Doctoral Education Conferemce on the intergration of AI tools in advncaed-level and doctoral nursing education. She also presented on the ethical intergration of AI at the 2025 Sigma Theta Tau Internatil Lambda Rho Chapter Research Symposium. Her current theoretical scholarship centers on Caritas-Informed Epistemic Stewardship (CIES), a nursing theory she is developing that positions nurses as moral-epistemic agents who safegaurd compassion and truth within algorithimic care environments. Grounded in Waton's Caring Science, CIES introduces the concept of epistemic stewardship, enacted through epistemic integrity, relational accountability, and equity viligance, to address a domain that existing nursing theories have not yet engaged: algorithmic knowledge production and its impact on clinical practice, patient agency, and health equity. Shie is currently woring on a scoping reivew on the use of AI chatbots in advanced nursing education (OSF, doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/JWN8T). She is actively redesigning DNP core courses to incorporate AI-assisted evidence sythesis, data analysis, and clinical decision support.  

As Department Chair, Dr. Christopher provides leadership for the DNP programs and has chaired or co-chaired more than 60 doctoral scholarly projects spanning quality improvemnet, evidence-based practice, program evaluation, and health policy analysis. She is also chaired the 91香蕉视频 Institional Review Board (through December 2025), advancing research ethics and oversight across the university. Her commitment to rigor in the DNP process, from study design and IRB submission through statistical analysis and manuscript preparation, has resulted in several student-authored peer-reviewed publications, with the majority of mentored students completing on time or ahead of schedule. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed publications in Nursing Outlook, Nurse Leader, Journal of Professional Nursing, Journal of Nursing Administration, Nurse Eduation Today, Resuscitation, Nursing Economics, International Nursing Review, and the Cochrane Nursing Care Field, as well as book chapters with Springer,F. A. Davis, and Jones & Bartlett Learning. She has served as a peer reviewer for Nuring Outlook and the Journal of Professional Nursing. Dr. Christopher was a Co-Investigator on a nationally funded multi-site nursing informatics competency study(NLN/Partners Healthcare-Harvard), with findings presented at AMIA 2022 and NLN 2023, and a forthcoming publication in Nursing Education Perspectives. She leads evaluations for two HRSA-funded maternal and child health grants totaling over $550,000 through the Norheast Florida Healthy Start Coalition. 

Prior to full-time academia, Dr. Christopher served as a Director of Nursing Research and Magnet at UF Health Jacksonville, where she led the successful Magnet re-designation and directed the Nursing Informatics Department. In that role, she directed the EPIC electronic medical record Go-Live for nursing services, built clinical decision support and nusiness intelligence reporting capabilites, and partnered with C-suited leadership on data-driven strategic decisions. She also chaired the Health Informatics program at 91香蕉视频 from 2016 to 2018, launching the Master of Health Science in Health Informatics and a Post-Baccalaureate Health Data Analytics certificate, increaing emrollment by 50% in the first year. 

Dr. Christopher holds board certifications, in Family Nurse Practice(FNP-BC), Nurse Executive (NE-BC),  Evidence-Based Practice Certification (EBP-C, Helene Fuld Health Trust National Insititute). She is a Certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator (CAIF), a Watson Caring Science Post-Doctoral Scholar庐, and Ambassador, and a  Caritas Coach庐. She earned the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate in 2025. Her professional service has included membership on the Nurses on Boards Coalition National Impact Research Work Group, past presidency of the Sigma Theta Tau Lambda Rho Chapter-at-Large, former co-directorship of the QSEN Regional Center at 91香蕉视频, and participation in the HIMSS TIGER Scholars Workgroup.

Dr. Christopher's teaching philosophy is rooted in an appreciative, student-centered approach that emphasizes emancipatory learning through caring pedagogy and the principles of Communitas, as reflected in her publication, "Academic Caring Pedagogy, Presence, and Communitas in Nursing Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in Nursing Outlook with co-author Dr. Jean Watson. Her teaching expertise spans undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, with a focus on informatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, edvience-based practice, quality, safety, leadership, and ethics. Shes is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of nursing leaders and fostering an environment where tehcnology and human caring science converge to transform practice.