Dr. Sandy Blizzard Tripp is a practicing family nurse practitioner in a private pediatric office in Beulaville, NC and serves as an expert for the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners in the area of child nutrition/obesity. As a Childhood Obesity Awareness Advocate in Lenoir and Duplin Counties focusing of the nutritional quality of school foods, she has launched a grassroots campaign to make changes. She has had contact with Governor Perdue’s Deputy Policy Director, members of the NC House of Representatives and NC Senate in Raleigh, local school boards and school personnel, Golden Leaf and BC/BS representatives. Small but steady changes are being made to improve the nutritional quality school lunches. As result of her efforts, September has been proclaimed Childhood Obesity Awareness Month in Lenoir and Duplin County.
Sandy has been published in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing and accepted for publication in the American Nurse Today. She serves as a reviewer for the Journal of School Nursing. Prior to her current role she worked in a community hospital as a critical care nurse and nurse manager. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University and Doctor of Nursing Practice and Master of Science with Family Nurse Practitioner degrees from Duke University.
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