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Valerie Beshears

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Valerie Beshears

Clinical Coordinator/Senior Instructor

School of Nursing

Biography

Degree Major Emphasis/Program Name Institution Year
M.S.N Leadership and Management Walden University 2007
B.S.N. Nursing University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1995

Valerie Bechears, MSN, RN is the clinical coordinator at the University of Arkansas - Fort SMith. She teaches leadership in professional nursing and nursing skills in the lab setting.  She began her nursing career after graduation from what was then Westark Community College in the NICU at a local hospital and continued her education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, receiving a B.S.N. in 1995. She practiced as a school nurse in Fort Smith for 24 years before coming to work at UAFS in 2017.