Arian Klose

Biography

Dr. Arian Klose is a Family Nurse Practitioner and former ICU & hospital clinician who now teaches junior & senior nursing students at the University of Jamestown. Her background in critical care and advanced practice fuels a teaching style that’s clinically sharp, emotionally honest, and rooted in lived experience.

Arian’s lectures go beyond textbook content. She integrates mental wellness, nervous system regulation, and the connection between personal insight and professional practice. Students learn how stress shows up in their own bodies; and how that awareness can translate into safer, more compassionate patient care. With a trauma-informed lens and a no-nonsense approach, she helps future nurses build the skills, resilience, and humanity they’ll need to survive and thrive in healthcare.

Outside the classroom, Arian loves spending time on the prairie; farm chores, birdwatching, tracking wildflowers, and tending to cows. She’s especially interested in how healing, nature, and nervous system regulation intersect for both patients and providers.

What’s your favorite course to teach? Why do you love teaching it?

I love teaching Med/Surg II and III. These courses let me go deep into complex conditions while helping students understand not just what’s happening to the patient; also what’s happening in their own bodies under stress. I connect the dots between pathophysiology, emotion, nervous system responses, and clinical decision-making. When students start to see those links, their care becomes more intentional and human. That’s where real growth happens.

Anything else you want to share?

Nursing is hard. Being human is harder. My role is to help future nurses build clinical confidence and self-awareness so they can survive this career without losing themselves in the process.