Caitlin Burchfield, AG-PCNP

A primary care nurse practitioner, Caitlin Burchfield, DNP, RN, AG-PCNP, specializes in geriatrics and palliative care. She works as a primary care provider for UVA’s Home-Base Primary Care Program Virginia at Home.

Caitlin's clinical interests include:

• Geriatric frailty
• Home-based primary care
• Interdisciplinary health education

After completing her nursing degree at UVA in 2010, Caitlin worked for three years as an inpatient cardiology nurse at UVA Medical Center. In 2013, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, working as a cardiology nurse at Stanford Hospital while pursuing nurse practitioner (NP) training at the University of California San Francisco.

Caitlin completed an inter-professional primary care residency at the San Francisco Veteran’s Health Administration (EdPACT). She provided primary care for veterans while receiving advanced training in geriatrics, palliative care, and home-based primary care.

After finishing the residency, she worked for the San Francisco Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), providing intensive geriatric primary care to frail elders living in community.

Caitlin returned to UVA in 2019 as a cardiology nurse practitioner. She completed her Doctor of Nursing at UVA in 2023.

In addition to patient care, she serves as director of Interprofessional Geriatric Education for the UVA School of Medicine, and assistant professor in the School of Medicine and School of Nursing.

Publications & Presentations

• Implementation of a Nurse Driven Frailty Screening to Improve Access to Home-based Primary Care, DNP Scholarly Practice Project.
• Implementation of a Nurse Driven Frailty Screening to Improve Access to Home-based Primary Care Poster; The American Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting, UVA Poster Day 2023
• Improving Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Safety; QI Poster presentation at UCSF Rector Symposium 2017
• Appropriate Proton-Pump-Inhibitor Prescribing: Presentation at UCSF Nursing Research Days, and Regional VISN 21 Pharmacy Meeting 2016
• Addressing Polypharmacy via Appropriate PPI Prescribing; QI Poster presentation at UCSF Rector Symposium 2016
• Examining Staffing Models Among Transitional Care Interventions for Heart Failure: Master’s Comprehensive Examination 2016

Gender

Female

Languages

Spanish, English

Age Groups Seen

Older Adults (65+)

Residency

San Francisco Veteran's Health Administration

Fellowships

San Francisco Veteran's Health Administration

Certification

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) (Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner)

• UVA Excellence in Advanced Practice Provider Scholarship Nominee 2023
• Hartford Center for Gerontological Excellence Award 2015                                
• UVA Hospital PNSO Beginning Nurse of The Year Nominee 2011