Wake AHEC

NC AHEC
RN Refresher Program

If you have been out of practice and want to refresh your knowledge and skills, this is the program for you!

"The NC AHEC RN Refresher Program is designed for registered nurses who have successfully passed the NCLEX examination and have, at some time, been licensed in one of the fifty states.The program consists of a self-paced, self-study online theory course in Adult Health and a precepted clinical practicum. The online theory course is administered through South Piedmont AHEC and the clinical practicum is administered through the regional AHEC. The clinical practicum is available only to those nurses who are current residents of North Carolina and who successfully complete the online course.

For more information, email Kathy Clark at kgclark@wakeahec.org

RN Refresher Program Contacts

Contact the RN refresher coordinator at the regional AHEC for your county to obtain more information and to determine program eligibility in your region.

Orange, Durham, Chatham, and Person counties
Bethany Davis, PhD, MSN, RN
Email: BDavis3@unc.edu
Phone: 252-521-103

Area L AHEC
Counties Served: Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson
Lisa Renfrow, MSN, RN, CDP
Email: Lisa.Renfrow@arealahec.org

South Piedmont AHEC
Counties Served: Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Stanly, Union
Kathy Calhoun, RN, BSN
Email: Kathy.calhoun@advocatehealth.org

Eastern AHEC
Counties Served: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Greene, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne
Pam Bowman, MSN, RN
Email: bowmanp23@ecu.edu
Phone: 252-744-5216

Piedmont AHEC
Counties Served: Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Rockingham
Shawn Houck, MSN, RN
Email: shawn.houck@conehealth.com
Phone: 226-832-8025

Mountain AHEC
 Counties Served: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Yancey
Tonja Schroder, MSN, RN, CPN (interim)
Email: Tonja.schroder@mahec.net
Phone: 828-771-4225

Northwest AHEC
Counties Served: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin
Ellen Zimmerman, MSN, RN, CHSE
Email: Ellen.Zimmerman@advocatehealth.org
Phone: 336-713-7720

South East AHEC
 Counties Served: Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender
Kaitlyn Spearin, MSN, RN
Email: kspearin@novanthealth.org

Southern Regional AHEC
Counties Served: Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Robeson, Richmond, Sampson, Scotland Tonja Teter BSN, RN
Email: Tonja.Teter@sr-ahec.org
Phone: 910-678-7246

Wake AHEC
Counties Served: Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Lee, Vance, Wake, Warren Kathy Clark MS, BSN, RN
Email: kgclark@wakeahec.org
Phone: 919-350-0481

Statewide
Porshia Mizzelle, MBA, BS, AHEC Senior Support Specialist
Email: mizzelle@unc.edu