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Lydia Albuquerque

Professor • School of Nursing

Dr. Lydia Albuquerque is an Associate Professor and WP Online Nursing Graduate Coordinator with over two decades of experience in higher education. She is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in acute care and cardiology. Dr. Albuquerque coordinates the WP Online Graduate Nursing Program, which includes 22 courses taught by over 80 faculty members. As a certified online educator and expert in teaching and developing online programs, she has created four courses since the inception of the WP Online Nursing Program.
Dr. Albuquerque is actively engaged in university-wide service. She serves on committees such as Graduate Policy, Center for Research Grants, Diversity and Justice UCC-4, and Student Success and is a member of the Inclusive Teaching Blue Ribbon Task Force. At the departmental level, she has contributed to Academic Standards, Graduate Admissions, Faculty Search, and RTP Standards Committees. She also played a key role in the Department of Nursing’s CCNE accreditation process in 2018. Dr. Albuquerque currently serves as Vice President of the WPU Sigma Iota at Large Chapter.
Her research focuses on securing grants, conducting research projects, publishing, and presenting at various conferences. She has obtained over $300,000 in grants, including support from the New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services for a Fitbit program designed to improve exercise, diet, and medication adherence among high-risk women in inner cities to address hypertension and stroke.
Dr. Albuquerque is also a collaborator on a five-year HRSA-funded grant that provides $650,000 annually in scholarships to economically underserved nursing students at WPU, disbursing over $3.25 million across the grant period.
A dedicated member of professional organizations, Dr. Albuquerque served as President of the National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA) from 2021–2022 and currently serves on the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) Education Committee. Her leadership has been recognized through numerous awards, including the New Jersey State Nurses Association Don & Diva Award, the March of Dimes Award, and the Clinical Leadership and Excellence Award from HFSA. She has also been a leader in advancing initiatives to address racism in nursing, serving as a commissioner on the inaugural project of the American Nurses Association (ANA) National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing.
Dr. Albuquerque has been honored with prestigious fellowships, including:
Fellow of the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing (FADLN) in February 2024
Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) in July 2022
Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in March 2021
She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from William Paterson University and is certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from Rutgers University. Dr. Albuquerque continues her clinical practice at Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas University Hospital in New Brunswick.
For more information on her contributions to addressing racism in nursing, please see the ANA National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing Foundational Report.

https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/workforce/racism-in-nursing/national-commission-to-address-racism-in-nursing/commissions-foundational-report-on-racism--in-nursing/

Professional Interests

Education, Research, Nurse Practitioner

Hindi 

Degrees

DNP Nursing, College of Science & Health, Department of Nursing, William Paterson University Wayne, NJ

MS Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, College of Nursing, Rutgers University Newark,

MS Nursing, Leelabai Thackersey , College of Nursing, SNDT Women'sUniversity Mumbai, India

BS Nursing, College of Nursing, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune University Pune, India

Specialization

Cardiology, Heart failure, Nurse Practitioner

Licenses and Certifications

12/31/2004
Registered Nurse, New Jersey Board of Nursing State

12/31/2010
Nurse Practitioner, New Jersey Board Of Nursing State

04/30/2008
Critical Care Registered Nurse, American Association of Critical Care Nursing National

03/31/2010
Acute care Nurse Practitioner, American Association of Nurse Practitioners National

Representative Publications


Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Asian Indian Communities in the United States: A Cross-sectional Descriptive Study; Volume American Journal Of Nursing, Volume 124 , 2024
https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/toc/2024/01000


Hill-Rom’s bed exit system audible Alarm system, used in conjunction with falls protocol: Reduces falls on a medical-surgical inpatient unit, a process improvement project. ; , Journal of comprehensive Nursing and Research; 2020
http://300 Pompton Road


Health related Quality of Life, Predictor of 30 day Hospital readmissions among Heart failure patients; , Journal of Cardiac Failure; Volume 25, 2019
http://www.onlinejcf.com


Cardiac Rehabilitation and Endurance Exercise Improves Heart Health Behaviors and Health Status: Do Patients Adhere? ; , Online Journal of Cardiovascular Research ; 2019
https://irispublishers.com/ojcr/


Patient’s Self-reported functional status and Health Related Quality of life: Prognostic Predictors for 30-day hospital readmission among Heart Failure patients; , Heart & Lung: The Journal of CardioPulmonary and Acute care; Volume 47, 2018
https://www.heartandlung.org/

Representative Presentations


Impact of Resilient Option Training Among Asian Indian Nurses in India and the USA
34th International Nursing Research Congress, Sigma Theta International, July 2023 Self
, 2023


Global Collaboration During COVID-19
International Council of Nursing Montreal, June 2023
, 2023


Emotional Resilence and Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Leadership conference Indian Nurses Association of Greater Houston
Houston, TX 2019

Awards and Honors

Nominated for Fellow of American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Nursing
07/01/2022

Nominated for Fellow of National Academies of Practice
National Academies of Practice
03/01/2022

DON & DIVA award from Institute for Nursing
New Jersey State Nurses Association
04/01/2019

Nominated for 3rd Annual Future Leader in Heart Failure
Heart Failure Society of America
04/01/2019

Leadership Excellence award, American Association of Indian Nurses, New Jersey.
American Association of Indian Nurses of America, New Jersey Chapter
02/10/2020

Media

Doctor of Nursing Practice Graduate Receives Award for Exceptional Nurses from New Jersey State Nurses Association 's Institute for Nursing
https://wpunj.edu/articles/news/2018-04-12/doctor-of-nursing-practice-graduate-receives-award-for-exceptional-nurses-from-new-jersey-state-nurses-association-s-institute-for-nursing/?fbclid=IwAR23ZueqFgM4L-R7as6Fq9PZwMDx4SSo1LFjfxpKBOnF-Zi7fn8EOMhMZrw&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral

Introducing the APN Task force(2015-17)
www.nainausa.com

NAINA celebrates Advance Practice Nurses
https://minoritynurse.com/author/albuquly/

Nightingale Research Grant Awarded to Lydia Albuquerque

National Association of Indian Nurses of America (NAINA) Advanced Practice Nurses Forum

Notable Courses Taught

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) ( 2023- Present)
NUR 7380- Leadership and Collaboration

Master of Nursing ( 2020- Present)
NUR 5461- Advance Pathophysiology
NUR 5411- Advanced Pharmacology
NUR 6062-Health Care Data Analytics
NUR6011- Advanced Health assessment

Undergraduate Nursing
NUR 3280- Fundamentals of Nursing

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