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)

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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Innerarity is an Associate Professor for Clinical Nursing in the Adult Health CLinical Nurse Practitioner Program. From 2000-2007, she was the Program Chair for the AHCNS program. She also regularly co-teaches Advanced Pathophysiology, which is a course for all APN students at UTSON. She developed and regularly teaches Diagnosis and Managment of Adult Health Problems, the elective prescriptive privileges course for AHCNSs.

Her research interests surround Adult Health, most recently with Dr. Angela Clark, studying Symptom Management in Congestive Heart Failure. Other academic and research interests include symptom management in patients with chronic diseases, emergency nursing, fluid, electrolyte and acid base issues, and renal disease.

She lectures regularly on issues related to Documentation and Communication of Critical Incidents in Acute Care, nursing negligence, APN practice and legal issues. Dr. Innerairty has a consulting practice as an expert witness in Adult Health medical-legal cases. She also lectures on Legal issues for Advanced Practice Nurses, and Documentation and Coding for APNs.

Dr. Innerarity's clinical practice includes work as a FNP and Adulth Health CNS for Riverbend Medical Clinic, and has Associate Staff Privileges at Smithville Regional Hospital and Lakeside Hospital in Bastrop, TX. In addition she has clinical practice with graduate students in a variety of Adult Health settings.

Her personal interests include golf, raising chickens for organic eggs, and her blackberry vineyard on her farm and orchard South of Bastrop, water skiing, and spending time with her chilren, grandchildren and a motley crew of dogs and cats.