Staff Biography

Debbi Barnett, RN, MS, FNP

Quality Improvement Coach

A 1990 cum laude graduate of Concordia College River Forest-West Suburban College of Nursing, Deb has held registered nursing positions in a number of different settings including home health, medical/surgical inpatient units, outpatient adult oncology, migrant health nursing, and nursing education. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1997 with her Master’s in Nursing after completing the FNP specialty track and her thesis “Empowerment and Medical Self-Care in a Northern Colorado Sample.” Since that time she has practiced as an FNP, primarily in family medicine residency programs including the Poudre Valley Hospital Family Medicine Center (Fort Collins, Colorado) and the University of Wisconsin’s Fox Valley Family Medicine Clinic (Appleton, Wisconsin). In both settings she was involved in laying of groundwork for new or revised system development. Clinical focus areas for these included pediatric obesity, lifestyle medicine, and diabetes improvement. She has been honored to co-present at two national conferences—the University of Colorado School of Nursing’s National Primary Care Symposium and for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Education Conference in the past. Deb joined CCGC’s QI coaching staff in July of 2007. Areas of continued clinical/professional interest include lifestyle medicine and empowering patients for engagement in care and behavioral change, practice improvement, and working with residency practices. She enjoys spending her personal time cooking, entertaining and hanging out with her husband and son.