Melissa Aselage, RN, MSN, FNP-BC

2009-2011 John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Scholar

Full-time Lecturer

Educational Background

BSN University of North Carolina Wilmington

MSN University of North Carolina Wilmington

PhD student at Medical University of South Carolina – Fall 2008 to present

Professional Information

Ms. Aselage received her BSN from UNCW in 1996, and an MSN from UNCW in 2000.  She worked as an RN for two years in a geriatrics/ skilled nursing facility and after completing her MSN worked as an FNP for five years in geriatrics/ long term care.  She is now a full-time faculty at UNCW and maintains her clinical advanced practice in a geriatric primary care setting.  Ms. Aselage is also a full-time doctoral student at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a North Carolina Nurse Educator of Tomorrow Scholarship recipient.

Professional Experience

ANCC Certified Family Nurse Practitioner since 2000

Geriatric nursing care since 1996

Family Nurse Practitioner in geriatric primary care since 2000 

Professional Service

GNEC:  Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium          Summer 2007

Presentation: North Carolina Nurse Practitioner Spring Symposium, 2006; Geriatric Functional Assessment

Presentation:  Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training, Annual October training session  2006-present; Geriatric Sexual Assault

Certified Trainer:  End-of-Life Nurse Educator Consortium (ELNEC), Summer 2006 educating UNCW’s graduate students Palliative Care concepts and End-of-Life Care across the lifespan

Scholarship Activities:

Aselage, M., & Amella, E. (2009, in press) An evolutionary analysis of mealtime difficulties in older adults with dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Aselage, M. (2009, in press). Measuring mealtime difficulties: Eating, feeding, and meal behaviors in older adults with dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Pedagogy Development Award                                                                                           Summer 2008

North Carolina Nurse Educator of Tomorrow                                                                                          2007-2010

Professional Memberships:

Gerontological Society of America
Southern Nursing Research Society
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society
North Carolina Nurses Association
American Nurses Association
National League for Nursing

Contact Information

Office: Friday Annex 170

Phone: (910) 962-4285

Email: aselagem@uncw.edu

http://uncw.edu/GNECpodcasts