Rick Ramirez, DNP, APRN-Rx, AG-ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, ENP-C, CEN, CPEN
Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2528 McCarthy Mall, Webster Hall 440
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph: 808-956-4865
Fax: 808-956-3257
Email: rjr64@hawaii.edu

Biography
Dr. Rick Ramirez teaches in the DNP program and is the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner specialty program coordinator. With 20 years of nursing experience, 13 of which have been working in adult and pediatric emergency departments, Dr. Ramirez remains passionate about nursing, emergency, trauma and point of care ultrasound use by APRN’s. His previous nursing experience includes ED, ICU, Med/Surg, Cardiac Cath lab, and more. He obtained his Doctor of Nursing Practice from Vanderbilt University in 2019 with a focus on physical trauma in global health. He obtained his Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt in 2017 and his Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing from Middle Tennessee State University in 2014.