Judith Haggard is a Family Nurse Practitioner for the Semo Health Network in Kennett, a position she has held since July 1999. She is FNP, MSN, ANNC certified.
As a nurse practitioner working in primary care, Haggard provides nursing and medical services to individuals, families, and groups, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention, as well as the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diseases. The services include, but are not limited to, ordering, conducting, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescription of pharmacologic agents, and treatment and non-pharmacologic therapies. Teaching and counseling individuals, families and groups also are a major part of nurse practitioners’ activities. As a nurse practitioner, Haggard works autonomously, as well as in collaboration with a variety of individuals, to diagnose and manage clients’ health care problems. Given her experience with board management, she also is able to provide fiduciary advice.
From 1993-99, Haggard was Director of Community Health Services in Kennett where she was a certified substance abuse counselor for the Family Counseling Center. In that role, she provided services to local communities in the area of prevention to all local high schools and communities by working with adult and student groups to prevent alcohol and drug abuse as well as other health concerns.
From 1989-93, she was a Clinical Therapist at the Family Counseling Center, Inc., in Kennett.
Haggard received her BSN in 1963 from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her MSN in 1999 from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
During her career, she has been an active in the community and state, including: Board of Curators member for the University of Missouri from 2008-13; Past President and Founder of the Dunklin County Caring Community Council; Past Board member of the State Alcohol Council; Past Board member of VNA in Kennett; Past Board Examiner for the Missouri Substance Abuse Board of Southeast Missouri; Founder of the Volunteer Association at Dunklin County Hospital in Kennett; and Elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Kennett.
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