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Nursing Clinical Coordinator/ Clinical Assistant Professor
Penn Medicine Rehabilitation/ Villanova University
Michelle Lockett DNP, RN is a Nursing Clinical Coordinator at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse where she is a key member of the rapid response team and conducts interdisciplinary quality improvement projects to reduce readmissions to acute care hospitals by optimizing nursing quality of care in the inpatient rehabilitation population. Additionally, Dr. Lockett is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University where she teaches primarily in the pre-licensure registered nurse program.
Dr. Lockett is a Philadelphia native and received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Florida A&M University (2006), a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) in Leadership/Education at Wilmington University (2017), and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at The University of Pennsylvania (2020). With over sixteen years of extensive nursing experience, Dr. Lockett has worked in intermediate intensive care, internal medicine, post-acute care, and community health settings.
Aside from work in the United States, Dr. Lockett has been active as a Global Health Advocate. After traveling to South Africa over a decade ago to work as a Foreign Nurse Consultant to educate and train local caregivers, Dr. Lockett started a non-profit organization in 2010, the Health Exposure and Longevity Project, Inc. (H.E.L.P., Inc.), to mobilize healthcare workers to serve vulnerable populations. After a few years of organizing health fairs and health seminars around churches in Philadelphia, Dr. Lockett decided to branch out internationally and traveled to Malawi to successfully spearhead a borehole project that provided clean water to seven villages. In 2017, her organization traveled to Haiti to complete a needs assessment for a medical clinic. In the fall of 2023, Dr. Lockett will travel to the Dominican Republic with Villanova University Nursing Students to spearhead a medical clinic for Haitian Immigrants in the sugar cane fields.