Raquel Alvarado

Dr. Raquel Alvarado serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio, appointed to full-time faculty in January 2025 after joining as Adjunct Faculty in January 2020. With over 10 years of nursing leadership experience and board certification as a nurse executive (NE-BC), she specializes in critical care, home health, case management, and nursing education.

Education:

• Associate Degree in Nursing, San Antonio College
• BSN, University of the Incarnate Word
• MSN in Nursing Administration with Post-Graduate Nurse Educator Certificate, University of Texas at Arlington
• Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP), Chatham University

Her clinical and research interests center on nursing leadership systems, critical care protocols, home healthcare optimization, and healthcare economic modeling. She integrates military healthcare experience from her four-year service as an Army Nurse Corps Reserves officer into leadership pedagogy, emphasizing resource management in high-acuity settings.

Dr. Alvarado's teaching portfolio spans foundational to advanced nursing domains including family care systems, medical-surgical nursing, mental health, community specialties, healthcare technology implementation, disease management frameworks, and financial operations in healthcare delivery.