Position: Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program; Assistant Professor
Department: College of Healthcare Professions
Phone: 610-282-1100, x2837
Office: 235 Gambet Center
Dr. Laura M. Baylor is an assistant professor and Family Nurse Practitioner Program director. She has been a board-certified family nurse practitioner since 2001 and a registered nurse since 1989. Dr. Baylor’s clinical practice has been family medicine, with roles in college health, urology, house calls for the homebound, and emergency medicine. She has practiced in Pequest Family Practice in New Jersey since 2001 and is currently practicing at the Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley with our advanced practice faculty.
Dr. Baylor teaches Procedures for Primary Care, Health, Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning, and the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty courses in the MSN and BSN-DNP programs. She has taught in various undergraduate nursing programs as clinical adjunct faculty since 2000 and as a clinical preceptor and adjunct faculty for DeSales University since 2006. In 2017, she became the Family Nurse Practitioner Program director at DeSales.
Dr. Baylor obtained her Associate of Science in Nursing degree from Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center School of Nursing and Union County College in 1988. She worked in pediatric head trauma, intermediate coronary care, and acute coronary care before finding her true passion in emergency medicine.
In 1999, Dr. Baylor received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales and immediately continued completing her Master of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2001 from DeSales University. In 2013, Dr. Baylor was honored to be part of the inaugural class, completing her Doctorate of Nursing Practice in Clinical Leadership at DeSales University.
Dr. Baylor is a founding member of the National Association of Family Nurse Practitioners and co-chair of the mentorship committee, a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Mu Omicron Chapter, and serves on the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners board as the Lehigh Valley representative.