Agnes Hoeger

Agnes Hoeger

Regional Clinical Coordinator / Clinical Director / Teaching Associate

Aggie Hoeger, MS, CNM

Regional Clinical Coordinator

Aggie Hoeger Receives Award for Outstanding Preceptor Award Given by FNS at the 80th Anniversary Celebration
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Aggie is in a full scope nurse-midwifery practice at Gunderson Lutheran Health Care System Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin.Aggie has been a dedicated preceptor for FSMFN students for over a decade and has precepted over 35 students for Frontier.Over the years she has offered not only clinical education for FSMFN students, she has been a role model of the highest order, demonstrating the role of the nurse-midwife as an important member of a health care team built on collaboration and collegiality.She and all of her dedicated midwife partners, have hosted nurse-midwifery students almost continuously during the entire last decade.Even when finding clinical sites in Wisconsin was becoming increasingly difficult, Frontier could always count on Aggie and the nurse-midwifery service at Gunderson to find a way to make room for a student when the need arose.

In addition to offering clinical teaching, Aggie has taught students about the role of the nurse-midwife through example.She was the service director for the first (and now longest running) nurse-midwifery practice in Wisconsin.She also served as Chair of the local chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) for two terms, always encouraging her students to become involved with the work of ACNM on the local level.During her term as Chapter Chair, the Wisconsin nurse-midwives successfully negotiated a new practice act, allowing them to work as independent practitioners in the state.She is also involved in international work, establishing women's health care centers in Russia and other parts of the world.She willingly shares her experiences with students and nurse-midwives across the state.

Today, Aggie continues to offer outstanding clinical experiences for the students of FSMFN.She now fills the role of Regional Clinical Coordinator for Wisconsin (and most of the states in the Midwest).In addition to precepting students in her site, and following clinical students throughout the Midwest, she is a leading recruiter of students to FSMFN.Aggie is a midwife's midwife.She has continually offered outstanding clinical teaching, mentoring and nurture.The fruits of her labor can be seen all across the country (especially in the Midwest), through the graduates of FSMFN who have gone on to start new practices and work in existing nurse-midwifery services.Her willingness to work with FSMFN students has been a gift.We can think of no better way to honor the gift that she has given us than by recognizing her with this reward.
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Agnes Hoeger MS, CNMRegional Clinical Coordinator