Krystal Marie Abucevicz-Swick, DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CTTS

Senior Lecturer

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Nursing

Department:

WVU School of Nursing Keyser Campus

Classification:

Faculty

• DNP, West Virginia University, 2023
• MSN, West Virginia University, 2018
• BSN, West Virginia University, 2015
• ADN, Allegany College of Maryland, 2004
• BA, Fairmont State College, 2001
• AA, Fairmont State College, 2000

• Ruth and Robert Kuhn Nursing Faculty Research Award - (August 15, 2023)

• FNP-C - The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Board, Inc. (2018)
• CRNP - Family - Maryland Board of Nursing (2019)
• APRN-CNP - WV Board of Registered Nurses (2021)
• RN - WV Board of Registered Nurses (2016)

Krystal has been a Registered Nurse who provided care to patients in both acute care and skilled nursing facilities beginning in 2004. In 2018, graduated with MSN from West Virginia University and became a Family Nurse Practitioner and began working in pulmonary medicine as an FNP until October 2021. She changed specialty practice to wound care and has continued clinical practice as an APRN at WVU Medicine PVH since February 2022. She began teaching in the BSN program at WVU Keyser campus starting August 2021. During her time as a didactic and clinical instructor, she has worked to integrate tobacco treatment into the nursing curriculum and participated on a research team doing secondary data analysis to examine the mediating effect of mood state between sleep factors (sleepiness, OSA severity, latency, efficiency as the independent/predictor variables) and PAP adherence and health-related quality of life (as the dependent/outcome variables). She graduated from the WVU DNP program in August 2024. Her DNP project focused on implementing a structured, evidence-based diabetes continuous glucose monitoring education program into an outpatient diabetes education program to improve patient knowledge and self-efficacy.

Teaching interests: Krystal teaches at the undergraduate level in the nursing program. Her teaching interests include Health Assessment& Communication and Foundations of Nursing Practice.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea and PAP adherence.
Integrating Continuous Glucose Monitor Technology into Practice