Tina M Baxter

Legal Nurse Consultant/Nurse Practitioner

Tina M. Baxter is an advanced practice registered nurse and a board certified gerontological nurse practitioner through the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC), who resides in Anderson, Indiana. Mrs. Baxter has been a registered nurse for over twenty years and a nurse practitioner for 14 years. She is the owner of Baxter Professional Services, LLC, a consulting firm which provides legal nurse consulting services for attorneys and insurance professionals; wellness and chronic disease management coaching; and customized educational and operational resources to healthcare organizations. She provides a weekly Facebook live program on business and health topics. Mrs. Baxter teaches stress management strategies to clients of all ages and offers virtual as well as online classes. She is listed as best lessons for 2019 and 2020 from Lessons.com. She is the founder of The Nurse Shark Academy where she coaches nurses to launch and scale their businesses. She is a certified small business and benefits solutions advisor with LegalShield Business Solutions. She is a public speaker and have spoken on numerous topics on national level. She is contributor to articles on electronic and print media such as Entrepreneur.com, The Minority Nurse, LinkedIN, as well a guest on numerous podcasts.
She is currently working at Adult and Child Health in Indianapolis, focusing on the mental health needs of adults and geriatric patients. She is a previous owner of HIS Solutions Healthcare, LLC which provided a community Certified Nursing Assistant course, Home Health Aide training course, and a Qualified Medication Aide training for which she served as the program director and chief operating officer. She was employed at American Health Network in Muncie, Indiana as a nurse practitioner where she served six different skilled care and assisted living facilities. Mrs. Baxter serves on several boards and community organizations such as the Meals on Wheels of Hancock County, the Anderson Black and Minority Chamber of Commerce, the Black Nurses Association of Anderson, and the Concerned Ministers of Anderson. She is also a member of the American Nurses’ Association, the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (geropsych sig member), the Coalition of Advanced Practice Nurses of Indiana, the National Nurses in Business Association, and the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is a mentor with the Pass the Torch Foundation and completed the inaugural class of Advancing Indy Women with IUPUI and the Kelley School of Business in conjunction with Linking Indy Women. Mrs. Baxter is an evangelist and pastor at Church Upon the Rock Missionary Baptist Church in Anderson, IN where she serves as Director of Outreach, church nurse, choir member and on the pastoral staff.
Mrs. Baxter has a Master of Nursing in Nursing Education and a post-master’s as a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner from the University of Indianapolis (Indianapolis Indiana). She has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Taylor University (Upland, IN) and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Anderson University (Anderson, IN). Mrs. Baxter has taught on both the undergraduate and graduate level in nursing and she continues to mentor nursing and nurse practitioner students during their clinical rotations.
Mrs. Baxter has presented for PESI, a continuing education company, in the areas of “Challenging patient behaviors”, “Fall Prevention Challenges”, and “Unintentional Weight Loss in the Elderly”. She has presented other topics in the past at conferences and symposiums, “Older Adult Addictions and Intervention Strategies” (poster presentation), “The Role of the NP/PA when the patient is receiving Opioid Medications” (CME presentation), and “Women and Alcohol: Their Experience with Addiction Across the Lifespan” (original research).