Biographical Statement

Dr. Paige McDaniel entered nursing as a second-degree graduate in 2004, and subsequently completed her Master’s program in late-2007. As a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner, she began her midwifery career on Saipan, the principal island of the Northern Marianas (a small island chain and US Territory in the Western Pacific near Guam), where she lived and worked for almost two and a half years. She relocated to Indiana in 2011 for a full-scope Nurse-Midwife position with a Federally Qualified Health Center in Indianapolis, where she worked for the next seven years. In 2017, Dr. McDaniel completed her DNP degree and post-Master’s Certificate in Teaching in Nursing. Her doctoral project involved implementing a postpartum hemorrhage prevention program with midwives and nurses in Liberia, West Africa. In 2018, Dr. McDaniel left full-scope practice for an APRN clinic position where she is a women’s health and sexual health care provider. She maintains her Advanced Practice here, working one day a week in addition to her IUPUC nursing faculty duties.

Dr. McDaniel’s professional interests include health disparities, social determinants of health, global health (especially global health education and workforce development), health policy, APRN education, and complementary and alternative medicine.

Education

Doctoral

Doctor of Nursing Practice, Indiana University, 2017

Graduate

Post-Masters Certificate in Teaching in Nursing, Indiana University, 2017

Master of Science in Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Undergraduate

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2004

Bachelor of Science: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Professional Activities

Licensure

• Nurse-Midwife,Indiana State Board of Nursing
• APRN and CSR Prescriptive Authority, Indiana State Board of Nursing
• Registered Nurse, Indiana State Board of Nursing
• Registered Nurse,California Board of Registered Nursing
• Registered Nurse, Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing (Inactive)

Certification

• Certified Nurse-Midwife, American Midwifery Certification Board
• Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner, National Certification Corporation

Awards & Activities

Professional Organizations

• American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)
• Past President of the Indiana ACNM Affiliate (2012-2014)
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Xi and Alpha Chapters
• American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Indiana State Affiliate of the ANA
• Coalition of Advanced Practice Nurses of Indiana
• American Holistic Nurses Association
• Indiana University School of Nursing DNP Legislative Fellow, 2015
• The Penn Professional Women's Network’s Alice Paul Award, 2007