Dr. Jinger Roy is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She first started her education in nursing at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in 2015, graduating as Valedictorian of the traditional BSN class. She received the Theresa Bittenbring Marque and John Henry Marque Fund Nursing Award and the Patricia A. Losee Memorial Award for her work in her undergraduate courses. She worked at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans as an RN, specializing in pediatric neurorehabilitation, neurology, and nephrology.
She then completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice at Loyola University in 2020, receiving the Scholar Award for the BSN-DNP program. Her doctoral project, Reducing hospitalized pediatric falls by increasing nursing adherence to fall prevention protocol, was accepted for presentation at the East Jefferson General Hospital Evidence-Based Practice Day in November 2020, the Children’s Hospital New Orleans Evidence-Based Practice Symposium in December 2020, and won the Poster Excellent Award in the Quality Improvement Track at the Society of Pediatric Nurses 2021 Conference. She re-joined the Loyola University family as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2021, became an Adjunct Faculty Instructor in 2022 for both the undergraduate and graduate programs, and is now a full-time Instructor in the Graduate Program starting Summer 2023.