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Meet Our Nursing Leaders: Deborah Tinker MSN, RN

Meet Our Nursing Leaders: Deborah TinkerDirector, Ambulatory Nursing
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Why do you enjoy working for UW Hospital and Clinics?
 
I enjoy working at UW Hospitals and Clinics for the wide range of opportunities the organization has provided me for many years, the excellent support no matter what my role, and the gift to learn from the leaders, patients, people, processes and organization.
 
Ambulatory care nursing is a complex, multifaceted specialty that encompasses independent and collaborative practice. I am constantly amazed at the depth of compassion, excellence, accountability, respect, innovation and integrity the UW Hospital and Clinics ambulatory nursing staff, within the interdisciplinary teams, brings to the patient and family experience every patient, every time.
 
John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
 
Education
Master of Science in Nursing, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
Registered Nurse, Madison General School of Nursing, Madison, Wisconsin
 

Areas of Responsibility

  • Ambulatory nursing across UW Hospital and Clinics
  • Directs and implements innovative approaches to enhance the quality, safety and efficiency of ambulatory care
  • Plans, directs and coordinates the personnel, budgets, services and daily operations for a variety of specialty clinic services including urology, endocrine and diabetes, dermatology and Mohs, rheumatology, bariatric surgery, specialty medicine and surgery services