Clinical Assistant Professor, Second Degree Track Manager
University of Houston College of Nursing
Danielle Quintana began her nursing career in 2005 when she graduated from the Trinitas School of Nursing’s Cooperative Program with an Associate in Science Degree from Union County College, NJ. In 2009, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, NJ, and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing’s Epsilon Rho Chapter. In 2014, she completed her Master of Science in Nursing Education and Nurse Educator Certificate at the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing at TESU with honors. Danielle was accepted into Texas Woman’s University’s PhD in Nursing Science in 2018 where she is developing an original scale to measure surgical conscience in operating room nurses.
Danielle’s clinical specialty and passion is in Perioperative Nursing, where she has been an operating room nurse since 2005. She currently holds national certification as a Certified Nurse Operating Room-Emeritus. She has been honored to work at world-renowned facilities such as Montefiore Medical Center/ The Children's Hospital at Montefiore (University Hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College) as well as serving as the Neurosurgical Clinical Coordinator at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX.
In 2014, Danielle became a Clinical Assistant Professor and in 2019, became the Interim Second-Degree Track Manager at the University of Houston College of Nursing. In 2016, 2019 and 2021, she received the Excellence in Nursing Bronze Award for Education from the Good Samaritan of Nursing Foundation. She was inducted in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society TWU Chapter in 2020. In 2020, she had the honor of receiving two prestigious awards, the ATI Education Nurse’s Touch Award and the UH Faculty Excellence Award for Group Teaching.