Dr. Ginger Raterink is an Associate Professor at the CU Anschutz Medical campus College of Nursing. She has been with the College for 25 years now in a semi-retired mode teaching online in both the Primary Care APRN courses and the Doctor of Nursing Practice courses. She served 15 years as the Specialty Director of the Adult-Gero Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program and working with Dr. Kim Paxton, who succeeded her in that role upon her retirement, we developed a new curriculum with a focus on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention as well as disease identification and management.

Her clinical practice for the past 13 years has been at AF Williams Family Medicine clinic where she now works to help out when the clinic is short staffed. Her focus there has always been on working with patients with type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and associated cardiovascular disease complications. Prior to that, she worked in long term care as a health care provider with a Gerontologist from the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the School of Medicine. Earlier work was with the homeless at Stout Street Clinic in downtown Denver - a most rewarding experience. And prior to that, she worked with a cardiologist where we opened a practice in Boulder, Co.

She and Dr. Paxton have a strong belief that APRN education and especially the NP role, needs adjustment to focus our care on health promotion as we look to enhance and even change the way patients are managed. They believe in a team based approach with the patient at the center guiding them to what he/she is most interested in learning to improve his/her health as well as the health of the family.