Dr. Konda Keebler is a doctoral-prepared, board-certified family nurse practitioner credentialed by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She has worked in various settings, with nursing experience in medical-surgical nursing, psychiatry, long-term care, employee health, research, palliative care, nursing education, and community health. She is passionate about working with indigent community members and promoting positive changes to address healthcare disparities among underserved populations. Her scholarly work focuses on providing culturally sensitive and psychiatric/mental health support to the patients she serves. Dr. Keebler feels blessed to live out her lifelong dream of educating future nurses and providing care to diverse patient populations. She views her work in nursing as a ministry to serve others and aims to glorify God in all her endeavors.

Degrees and Certifications

• Doctor of Nursing Practice, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Master of Science in Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, The University of Alabama
• Associate of Applied Science in Nursing, Shelton State Community College
• Licensed Practical Nursing Certificate, Wallace Community College-Selma
• Family Nurse Practitioner Certification, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Awards and Honors

• Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing, 2019

Involvement

• Alabama League of Nursing
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• Central Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association
• National Black Nurses Association

Expertise

• Cultural sensitivity
• Primary health care
• Psychiatry/mental health

Recent Publications

• Keebler, K., Taylor, R. A., & Huang, C. H. S. (2021). Empowering the people: Introducing an advance care planning conversation to improve cultural sensitivity among African American heart failure patients (W215C). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 61(3), 642-643.
• Bakitas, M., Dionne-Odom, J. N., Ejem, D. B., Wells, R., Azuero, A., Stockdill, M. L., Keebler, K., Sockwell, E., Tims, S., Engler, S. and Steinhauser, K. (2020). Effect of an early palliative care telehealth intervention vs. usual care on heart failure patients: The ENABLE CHF-PC randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine, 180(9), 1203-1213
• Bakitas, M., Dionne-Odom, J., Ejem, D., Wells, R., Azuero, A., Stockdill, M., Keebler, K., … & Bakitas, M. (2020). Effects of early palliative care for family caregivers of persons with advanced heart failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC randomized controlled trial (FR440B). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 59(2), 467-468.

Recent Presentations

• Keebler, K. (2024, September 16). Empowering the people: Introducing an advance care planning conversation to improve cultural sensitivity among African American heart failure patients [PowerPoint slides]. Tulane University/UAB Didactics-African American Perspectives in Heart Failure, New Orleans, LA.
• Sumengen, A., Buckner, E., Keebler, K., Spells, C., Moore, C., Knox, R., Todd, E. & Ashe, S. (2024, September 19-20). Asthma home environmental assessment through technology-facilitated simulation building practice competency: A program development study [Poster Presentation]. 2024 Sigma Region 8 Conference, Jackson, MS, United States.
• Keebler, K. (2023, September 25). Empowering the people: Introducing an advance care planning conversation to improve cultural sensitivity among African American heart failure patients [PowerPoint slides]. Tulane University/UAB Didactics-African American Perspectives in Heart Failure, New Orleans, LA.
• Wynn, S. & Keebler, K. (2022, October 21). Integrating behavioral health into a family nurse practitioner residency [Podium presentation]. 36^th Annual American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Long Beach, CA.

Expertise

• Advance care planning
• Cultural sensitivity
• Heart failure
• Palliative care
• Psychiatry/behavioral health