Jennifer Embree

Jennifer L. Embree is the chief wellness officer at Indiana University School of Nursing’s core schools of Indianapolis, Bloomington, Columbus and Fort Wayne. She is also a clinical professor and clinical nurse specialist at the IU School of Nursing in Indianapolis, the nursing research scientist at Eskenazi Health, and coordinator of the Master’s in Nursing Leadership and Health Systems track at the school.

She teaches leadership, leadership informatics, strategy, finance, human resources and writing for publication in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Executive Leadership and Population Health programs. Embree is the co-associate editor of the Journal of Continuing Education in the “Nursing’s Teaching Tips” column, and a reviewer for several nursing journals.

As chief wellness officer, Embree leads strategy around well-being and will facilitate wellness programs and initiatives to support at IU School of Nursing faculty, staff and students. Her current research includes well-being, perceptions of safe staffing and interventions for workplace bullying.

She is passionate about helping individuals and communities achieve self-stewardship (or their own well-being). Selected as the 2024 IUPUI Outstanding Graduate and Professional Student Mentor, Embree is a Reiki master and trained in Healing Touch.

A 2023 Institute for Healthcare Improvement Inaugural Leadership Well-Being cohort member, Embree produced the Indiana State Nurses Association’s Wellness Events, has published on health coaching, “Healthy Nurse, the Healthy Nation,” self-regulation and mindfulness during a pandemic, leadership experiences in a healthy work environment, professional identity in nursing, professional comportment, values and ethics and nurses as leaders. Inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2019, she collaboratively published consensus recommendations to advance system-level change for nurse well-being in Nursing Outlook in 2023.

Areas of Expertise

Healthy work environment, well-being, burnout, professional identity in nursing, civility in nursing, leadership, safe nurse staffing, writing for publication, professional development.

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