Denise Guerrier, MSN, BSN, RN-BC
Denise Guerrier, MSN, BSN, RN-BC
Assistant Director
Nursing Workforce Development Center
Duke University Health System
As a professor, HR executive, and nurse, Denise Guerrier has built a comprehensive career over two decades looking at safety from a very broad spectrum: the safety of health (as a nurse), the safety of the mind (as a trainer), and the safety of the company (as a risk executive).
An HR and workforce solutions executive, she is responsible for the management and leadership of the DUHS Nursing Workforce Development Center. She brings deep knowledge of diversity issues and broad expertise on matching the best fit to employers across a range of healthcare nursing disciplines, organizations, and individuals. She provides strategic vision; creates new initiatives and programs for workforce development; meets the need when gaps in skills appear with high level training and counseling; and provides targeted accountability metrics. As a risk management professional at UNC Health Systems, she investigated and analyzed risk, and instituted changes in patient care and policies and procedures.
She has more than two decades in nursing and healthcare education: as a clinical nurse educator at DUHS, a clinical instructor at Durham Technical Community College, and nursing instructor at North Carolina Central University, as well as serving as an adjunct professor in healthcare administration and management at Grand Canyon University and Pfeiffer University in Phoenix, Arizona.
She deals with the risk dynamics of the workplace–from the employer to the employees to the bottom line–so the next generation won’t have to.