Aimee Lea Burch, DNP, APRN-CNS, CMSRN, SCRN

Associate Professor

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Contact

AimeeBurch@creighton.edu
Faculty - Nursing
College of Nursing
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Aimee Lea Burch, DNP, APRN-CNS, CMSRN, SCRN

Associate Professor

Dr. Aimee Burch is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Creighton University. Her research interests encompass palliative care education, undergraduate writing, and evidence-based practice implementation. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Chamberlain University in Advanced Practice Leadership and is certified as an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical nurse, and Stroke Certified nurse. Her recent scholarly work includes assisting CHI Health St. Francis with an interprofessional study on opioid-induced respiratory suppression and collaborating on palliative and end-of-life student education. Dr. Burch was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses in 2025. She has been recognized as a top-25 Nebraska Nurse of the Year, Creighton University College of Nursing Excellence in Teaching Award, and faculty Daisy awards. Her research aims to increase student understanding of evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes in practice.

Teaching Interests

  • Evidence-Based Practice and Research

Research Focus

Palliative and end-of-life care, nursing knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice, hourly rounding, improvement of student writing ability.

Department

Nursing - Bachelors

Position

Associate Professor

Articles

  • Med-Surg Nurse Life Magazine
    Burch Aimee, Grooming Student Nurses in a New Era.
    2:2, p. 6 - 7 2021

Publications

  • Journal of hospice and palliative nursing
    Goodman Joely, Van De Graaff Whitney, Burch Aimee, Genua Jo Anne, Kirkpatrick Amanda, The Impact of the ELNEC Online Curriculum on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Self-Perceived Confidence in Providing Palliative Care
    27:6, p. 290 - 296 2025
  • Burch Aimee, The Effect of a Text-To-Speech Application on Nursing Student Writing Submissions 2024
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Palliative Care
    32:5, p. 337 - 338 2023
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Disaster Preparedness
    32:3, p. 202 - 203 2023
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Fracture Care in Older Adults
    31:1, p. 59 - 60 2022
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Management of the Patient with Spontaneous Pneumothorax
    29:3, p. 209 - 210 2020
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Pain Management in the Patient with History of Substance Misuse
    27:4, p. 257 - 258 2018
  • Medsurg nursing
    Burch Aimee, Palliative Care
    25:4, p. 279 - 280 2016

Presentations

  • The Impact of the Elnec Online Curriculum on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Confidence in Providing Palliative Care 2025
  • The Impact of the ELNEC Online Curriculum on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Confidence in Providing Palliative Care -0001

Grants

  • Multi-year, pre- and post-intervention study entitled "Comparing Perceptions of Nursing Horizontal Violence with NDNQI Scores in an Acute Care Setting". Surveys were completed by nursing staff each of 3 years, with interventions completed between years one and two, and two and three. Interventions included educational modules, role-modeling and code words for poor behavior. The surveys showed that there was an increase in NDNQI scores representing satisfaction, while other survey questions showed overall decreases in number of staff affected by horizontal violence.

  • Nurses’ Perceived Barriers to Hourly Rounding

  • Research study: Predicting injurious falls in the inpatient and outpatient areas

  • Research study: Compassion fatigue and effectiveness of related interventions in nursing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Research study: Nursing and the second victim experience

  • Research study: Interprofessional opioid safety in the medical-surgical unit

Awards

  • Fellow of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
    Fellowship
    Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
  • Creighton University Ignatian Educator of Distinction
    Award for completing the Ignatian Educator Program
    Creighton University
  • Daisy Foundation Faculty Award Nominee
    Faculty nominee for work with SPARK program
    The Daisy Foundation and Creighton University College of Nursing
  • Faculty Award honoree
    Daisy faculty award honoree.
    Daisy Foundation
  • Excellence in Teaching Award
    Creighton ANC Nursing students from Hastings campus
  • Excellence in Teaching Award
    Creighton ANC Nursing students from Hastings campus
  • Induction
    Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Phi Pi chapter
  • Top 25 Nurse of the Year
    Recognized for my work with the Stroke program and certification.
    March of Dimes, Nebraska and Iowa
  • Non-Clinical Nurse of the Year
    Awarded during Nurses Week, 2014 for recognition of my work in getting the facility Primary Stroke Certified.
    CHI Health St. Francis
  • Induction
    Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Iota Tau chapter
    Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Iota Tau chapter
  • Induction
    Inducted as member in society.
    National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Consulting

  • Consultant
    Magnet document reviewer
    Assist with reviewing Magnet documents prior to submission
    CHI Health St. Francis
    2012 - -0001
  • Consultant
    Consult on research and QI projects
    Monthly meetings as a consultant for the research committee
    CHI Health St. Francis
    2012 - -0001