Natalie Cheffer
Dr. Natalie Cheffer is a full professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Cheffer has been teaching at CSULB since fall 1993. Dr. Cheffer has taught undergraduate pediatrics, health assessment, and currently coordinates and teaches in the pediatric nurse practitioner program.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate
California State University, Long Beach
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing
University of San Diego
Master of Nursing,
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Certificate
University of California, Los Angeles.
Bachelor of Science, Nursing
Bachelor of Science, Health Science with a focus in community health education.
California State University, Long Beach.
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner – Primary Care
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Board Certified
American Nurses Credentialing Center Certification
Pediatric Primary Care
Pediatric Mental Health
School-based Health Care
- Health on Wheels Program
- 2019-2021
- $70,000.00
- Funding from LA – CARE to support the physician supervisor and the pediatric nurse practitioner faculty member to provide health care services to underserved and uninsured children in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District.
- Recipient 2019
- Awarded: $5,705.44
- Grant used to fund the purchase an airway management trainer
- and chest drain simulator to benefit the graduate students in the acute
- care adult gerontology nurse practitioner programs in the School of
- Nursing.
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- Arnold P. Gold Foundation
- 2017-2018
- $1,000
- This grant was awarded to implement a White Coat Ceremony for the
- incoming BSN nursing students fall 2017 and spring 2018 cohorts.
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
- Fellow
- 2017 - 2018
- Fellowship designed to further develop and enhance leadership skills in new and emerging executive administrators in BSN and graduate programs.
- 2016-2017
- Co - Project Director: Dr. Natalie Cheffer
- Co - Project Director: Dr. Gayle Early
- Awarded: $10,000
- Fellow
- 2015 – 2017
- Program offered faculty the opportunity to create an individualize curriculum for professional development through personal leadership assessment and mentoring.
- Co-Project Investigator with Dr. Lucy Huckabay
- 2014-2016
- Awarded: $150,000.00
- Collaborated in the development of this grant with the intent to increase the number of graduates from the FNP program who will serve in provider short areas in the state.
- Recipient 2014 – 2015
- Awarded: $5,902.90
- Grant funding used to fund the purchase of the DxR Clinician web-based patient
- simulation software to benefit the graduate students in the nurse practitioner
- programs in the School of Nursing.
- Downey Community Benefit Program
- Project Director 2014 – 2015
- Awarded: $13,000
- Grant funding used to fund a physician supervisor for the
- Health on Wheels program.
- Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
- Project Director 2012-2013, 2013 - 2014
- Awarded: $50,000
- Grant money used to hire two part-time nurse practitioner faculty to see patients a Health on Wheels, school-based clinic and serve as preceptors for PNP and FNP students.
NAPNAP – Member
Pediatric Nursing Certification Board – Fellow
American Academy of Pediatrics – Associate
