Ingrid Bell is a board certified Adult-Gertontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. Her area of clinical expertise is in critical care medicine. She recently started a role as a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner at White Plains Hospital, and worked for a decade in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at New York University Langone Health where she was heavily involved in clinical education. Her areas of research interest include management of mechanical ventilation, venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and pulmonary embolism.
In 2020 she joined Pace University as a Clinical Associate Professor and served as the Adult-Gertontology Acute Care Nurse Pracitioner Program Director, Clinical Coordinator and Simulation Director. She has taught a variety of courses in both the Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing practice programs, but particularly enjoys teaching diagnosis and management courses to adult gerontology acute care nurse pracitioner students. She looks forward to incorporating competency-based learning into the curriculum at Quinnipiac University through a range of learning modalities including simulation.
Ingrid obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in Dartmouth Massachusetts. She attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for both a Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees . Her doctoral project implemented a multidisciplinary mechanical ventilation weaning protocol which decreased ventilator days and intensive care unit length of stay at her hospital.