"Professor Borton is ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center) board-certified, as an Advanced Practice Nurse, specializing in Family Practice. Prior to coming to Bradley full time she functioned in the role of a Family Advanced Practice Nurse. Professor Borton’s advanced practice clinical experience includes urgent care, maternal-child, and family practice. She maintains her advance practical clinical expertise by working part-time as a family nurse practitioner at a local urgent care clinic. Prior to achieving her FNP, she worked at Mesa General Hospital, in Arizona, as a charge nurse on a Cardiac step-down unit, and also as a float nurse to all hospital units/floors. Professor Borton joined the Bradley University Department of Nursing Faculty in January 2010 as a part time clinical instructor. In February 2011, she joined the faculty as a full time Assistant Professor of Nursing. Professor Borton is currently pursuing her PhD in Nursing at Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University. Research interests include increasing breastfeeding duration with infants and first-time mothers. She is currently involved in a research study that is looking at different interventions to increase that breastfeeding duration."

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