Sheryl Innerarity, RN, PhD, FNP, CNS
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
1700 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78701-1499
NUR 5.145 (office location)
512 471-4183 (office phone)
Biography
Dr. Innerarity is an Associate Professor for Clinical Nursing in the Adult Holistic Health Division. Her teaching responsibilities are primarily within the Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist Program. From 2000-2007, she was the Program Chair for the AHCNS program. She also regularly co-teaches Advanced Pathophysiology, a required course for all APRN students. She developed and regularly teaches Diagnosis and Management of Adult Health Problems, the elective Prescriptive Privileges course for AHCNSs.
Dr. Innerarity has been on the Board of Directors for Texas Nurse Practitioners (TNP) since 2008. She is currently Co-Chairing the TNP Annual Conference for 2012 in Austin. She has also served on conference planning committee for TNP and Texas CNSs for the past several years. Academic and research interests include symptom management in patients with chronic diseases, acute illnesses in adults, fluid, electrolyte and acid base issues, and renal disease. Other interests include advanced practice legislative issues.
She lectures regularly on issues related to Documentation and Communication of Critical Incidents in Acute Care, nursing negligence, APRN practice and legal issues. Dr. Innerarity has a consulting practice as an expert witness in Adult Health nursing and APRN malpractice and negligence cases. She also lectures on Legal issues for Advanced Practice Nurses, and Documentation and Coding for APRNs.
Dr. Innerarity's clinical practice includes work as a FNP and Adult Health CNS for Dr. Rob Dougherty in Bastrop, TX, where she manages the care of mostly adult patients with chronic illness, and women’s health. In addition she supervises clinical practice with APRN graduate students in a variety of acute and specialty settings.
Her personal interests include golf, dancing to the blues, rock and roll! She enjoys raising chickens for organic eggs, and tending blackberry and other assorted fruit bearing trees on her farm in Bastrop County. She is enjoys spending time with her husband Robb Schreiner, a PA in Smithville, and her children-daughters Alysabeth, Aly and Helen, her grandchildren-Georgia and Cedar. She herds her animals including 2 rather large dogs--Cotton, an Akbash, and Cleo, an Anatolian Shepherd as well as seven cats-Worf, Tigger, Delilah, Harley, Moonbeam, Kismet and Karma.