Biography
Mrs. Walker is the administrative consultant for school health and school nursing services at the Iowa Department of
Education. She started this exciting professional nursing career role in 2013. Her role covers the following five programs:
- school nursing/school health service delivery,
- employee health,
- environmental health,
- complex disease management, and
- health screening/health promotion.
Mrs. Walker contributes and participates in nation, state and local level healthcare initiatives, providing leadership,
federal resources, state resources and professional development opportunities to local Iowa school nurses practicing
in the school setting. She is engaged in multiple state and federal initiatives as a qualified healthcare practitioner
that provide areas of expertise for school leadership teams to support their highly qualified professional school nurses
who actively promote and protect the health of the school population using knowledge from the
nursing, social, and public health sciences in their professional practice.