In addition to her academic focus, she maintains a keen interest in ethics and access to health care. Ms. Nathaniel holds a BSN from Alderson-Broaddus College a MSN from West Virginia University, and currently is a doctoral student at West Virginia University where she has taught nursing ethics to both undergraduate and graduate students for several years. As a family nurse practitioner, she has been involved in indigent care for nearly 20 years and is founding director and part-time provider at a Mercer Health Right Clinic, which received the 1995 Governor's Award as Rural Health Care Clinic of the Year. She is a member of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the American Nurses Association to where she has recently been appointed member of the Advisory Board to the Center for Ethics and Human Rights. In 1991, Ms. Nathaniel was honored as West Virginia Nurses Association's Politically Active Nurse of the Year.
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