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Current
Licensure
Registered Nurse, State of Virginia, current
Education
Kaplan College Legal Nurse Consultant Paralegal
Diploma Program, 1999
Virginia Western Community College, ASN, 1983
Roanoke Memorial Hospital School of Practical Nursing, Diploma, 1971
Professional Memberships
Delta Epsilon Tau International Honor Society
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
Society for Vascular Nursing
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
National Gerontological Nurses Associations
Professional Experience
Presently:
MedLaw Consulting, Rocky Mount, VA, owner and Legal Nurse
Consultant, serving attorneys and insurance companies with medical
records review and analysis
Genetic Technologies, Inc,
serving on-call for paternity and genetic testing in
Roanoke area
Ambition Healthcare staffing
agency, filling nursing positions as needed for area long term care
facilities
King's Grant Retirement Community,
Martinsville, VA, filling vacancies as needed for Nursing Supervisor,
Clinic Nurse Manager, and floor Charge Nurses in skilled and assisted
living areas, also assisting with completion of scheduled MDS's to meet
state requirements
National Business College,
Roanoke, VA, Clinical Instructor, Certified Medical Assisting.
1999 Avante
at Roanoke, Restorative Care Coordinator, monitoring
therapies, nutrition, and wound care of "at risk" residents in long
term care
1999 Ambition
Healthcare Staffing Agency, served as Charge Nurse for area
long term care facilities in sub-acute units working with
ventilator-dependent paraplegic and quadriplegic patients
1996-1998 Eldercare
of Franklin County, serving as Head Nurse over the skilled
nursing unit, also organized and opened sub-acute unit, serving as Unit
Manager and Nursing Coordinator
1986-1996 Christian
Liberty Academy Home School Classroom, teaching elementary
and secondary education and foreign language from third through twelfth
grade
1987-1991 Lewis
Gale Hospital, Salem, VA, Staff Nurse in Coronary Care Unit
1983-1987 Lewis
Gale Hospital, Salem, VA, Staff and Charge nurse in Cardiac
Step-Down and Telemetry Unit
1983 Lewis
Gale Hospital, Salem, VA, Staff and Charge nurse Pediatric
Unit
1969-1979 Elgin
State Hospital, Elgin, IL, psychiatric care and counseling
assistance;
U.S. Army Hospital,
Fort Meade, MD, Family Planning and Maternal Health Clinic, teaching
New Mother's classes, Clinic nursing and triage, medical-surgical acute
care Staff Nurse;
Fairfield Nursing Center, Laurel,
MD, Staff Nurse, long term care;
St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore,
MD, Staff Nurse, medical surgical acute care;
Weight Control Clinic, Monterrey,
CA, served as Nurse Manager for the Monterrey area; U.S. Army Hospital, Berlin Germany,
Staff Nurse for Pediatric Clinic, Neonatal Nursery, Labor and Delivery,
and Post-Partum units
Professional Qualifications
Summary
- Over 30 years of nursing
experience in hospital acute care, critical care, clinic, and long term
care environments
- Proficient in patient care and
family support, providing assessment, counseling, education regarding
medications and treatments, lab work, treatment procedures, and
documentation including care plans and MDS's as required by state
regulatory agencies
- Experienced preceptor in the
nursing profession, orienting new nursing personnel and students to the
critical care setting
- Experienced educator with 10 years
experience teaching general education subjects and foreign language in
a home school classroom
- Developed a "window" for assisting
the reading skills of an LD student, which resulted in his ability to
adapt and improve reading skills to normal within one year, so that he
no longer required LD assistance
- Developed a memorization tool for
the teaching of multiplication tables to an LD student resulting in
dramatic improvement in his performance within a semester
- Computer literate using Internet
services and Windows 98
- Developed a form for maintaining
information within a concise format for use in tracking the progress of
long term residents in a Restorative Care program
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