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Position:
NTT Instructor
of Psychology
Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon 97361
Academic
Preparation
1995 M.S.N. California State University, Dominguez Hills
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Gerontology
1988 B.S.N. Oregon Health Sciences University, La Grande Campus
1976 A.D.N. Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Professional Experience
2011-present Corrections Health Partners
Care Manager
- Discharge planning/liaison inpatient care of inmate and return to prison
2009-2011 OHSU School of Nursing, Monmouth
Instructor
- Developed leadership, population-based nursing, chronic I course work for Monmouth Campus and collaborated with faculty
- Networks with community on health care needs of population.
- Dallas Free Clinic committee
- Volunteer Salem Free Clinic
- No strings attached for the homeless
2001-2009 Madera Community College Center, State Center Community College District, Madera California
Nursing Director
- Developed and directed the LVN Nursing Program for Madera Community College Center
- Develops/designs curriculum, policies, procedures, program review process, and program evaluation tools
- Responsible for facilitating and maintaining affiliation agreements/contracts with health care facilities in San Joaquin Valley for student placement in clinical settings
- Designs and implements skills lab for basic and advanced nursing education curriculum including:
- Virtual hospital simulations
- Use of Simulation manikins in direct patient care scenarios
- Responsible for maintaining program accreditation
- Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians accreditation
- Western Association of Schools & Colleges accreditation
- Responsible for hiring of part-time faculty and acts as chair of the committee to hire full-time faculty
- Coordinates and administers performance evaluations of the nursing faculty
- Collaborates with the faculty in the ongoing development, organization, and operation of the LVN program including program review updating curriculum with health promotion & disease prevention nursing focus
- Responsible for budget for the Madera Community College Center Nursing Program
- Supplies, equipment, salaries & organizational costs
- Variance review, evaluation and annual budget development
- Responsible for and manages all Madera Community College Center’s nursing program grants
- Creates reports, maintains budget, attends quarterly meetings, and collaborates with grant partners
- Collaborates with San Joaquin Valley Nursing leaders and California Hospital Council :
- Received California State grant to create San Joaquin Valley Nursing Education Consortium
- Developed computerized clinical placement system
- Defined best practice for entry into nursing schools
- Improved distance education
- Developed process to increase faculty
- Standardized orientation processes within the community for nursing students
- Functions on State Center Community College strategic planning committee
- Define the future growth of college centers
- Develop the process for Madera Community College Center to become independent college
- Develops partnerships and collaborations with schools of nursing and the health care facilities in the San Joaquin Valley and throughout the state
- Facilitate successful student transfer from college to workforce
- Define, develop and implement ADN to MSN career ladder
10/2006-2009 California State University, Fresno, BSN
Faculty Lecturer
- Provides core lecture and evaluation of first semester nursing students in gerontology & fundamentals
- Clinical faculty with gerontological focus
2004-2007 Madera Community Hospital Madera, California
Home Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Consulted in use of tele-medicine, case review and quality assurance.
1992-2001 Veterans Administration Medical Center-Fresno, California
Home Care Case Manager of chronically ill elderly
- Developed the clinical component in the tele-medicine home care
- Develop proposal demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of a tele-medicine program
- Case managed a group of patients via tele-medicine home care
- Developed and implemented policies & procedures for improving patient education
- Prevention, screening and documentation of the education throughout hospital
- Case managed high risk chronically and terminally ill patients
- Practice involved wellness focus for early intervention with the goal to prevent hospitalization
- Developed and implemented special education in spinal cord injury
- Consulted, and coordinated the Spinal Cord injury Program at Palo Alto Veterans and home care at Fresno Veterans
- Coordinated and managed a performance improvement program, creating and implementing data collecting tools, forms and reports.
- Researched & data collection for falls in the home and implemented nurse practice change from findings
- Developed the Valor Student Program for Home Based Primary Care (HBPC). Instructed the California State University, Fresno nursing students who participated in the Valor Program.
- Consultant and instructor for HBPC interdisciplinary team on elderly programs and services
- Medicare/Medicaid Home Care, board and care, long-term care, hospice, and Veteran’s programs.
Team Leader (1992-1993)
- Worked as a team leader on the medical surgical ward
1991-1992 Health Span Home Health, Fresno, California
Director of Nurses
- Established a new Home Health Agency.
- Developed and implemented policies and procedures to meet Federal, State regulations and OBRA. Passed State licensing and Federal Certification with favorable outcome.
- Developed/designed and implemented nursing documentation forms.
- Managed all nursing operations
- Developed a Home Health agency from including hiring of all new staff
- Responsible for staff development, evaluation and competency
- Responsible for budget, performance improvement and payroll
1990-1991 Sunnyside Convalescent, Fresno, California
Director of Staff Development
- Developed and instructed a goal oriented educational program for licensed and unlicensed personnel
1989-1990 Personal Care Health Services, Fresno, California
Director of Nurses
- Managed daily functions of Medicare home health agency
- Responsible for budget, payroll, Quality Assurance and Utilization Review of all nursing functions
- Expanded agencies’ clientele from pediatrics to geriatrics.
- Lead agency through The Joint Commission, State and Federal surveys
1985-1989 Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario, Oregon
Instructor
- Taught the certified nurses’ aid program and participated in rewriting the curriculum
1984-1989 Presbyterian Care Center, Ontario, Oregon
Supervisor
- Supervisor of 124-bed long-term care facility.
- Twenty skilled beds, care included IV therapy, total hip rehabilitation, hospice and IV hydration program.
- Managed daily functions and crisis interventions for long term care facility.
- Supervised four L.P.N.’s and twenty C.N.A.’s.
- Established new guideline of care under OBRA, State, and Federal regulations & educated staff on new regulations.
1982-1985 XL Home Health, Ontario, Oregon
Staff Nurse
1981-1982 Holy Rosary Hospital, Ontario, Oregon
1978-1980 Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, Oregon
1976-1978 Bay Area Hospital, Coos Bay, Oregon
Operating Room Scrub and Circulating Nurse
Professional Memberships
2010- Polk Community Free Clinic
2005-2009 San Joaquin Valley Nursing Leadership RN of the Year Planning Committee
2004-2009 San Joaquin Valley Academic/Service Partnership Committee
Nursing collaborative with hospital and nursing education
2002-2009 California Vocational Nurse Educators
1999-2009 San Joaquin Valley Nursing Leadership Counsel, Treasurer
1990-2010 Sigma Theta Tau (Mu Nu)
1989-Present Sigma Theta Tau International (Beta Psi)
Certifications and Honors
CERTIFICATIONS
1976 R.N. License, Oregon #076036591, expires 7/19/2013
2010 R.N., C.N.S., Oregon #201070009CNS, expires 7/19/2013
1989 R.N. License, California #317104, expires 8/31/2012
2000 R.N., C.N.S., California #1365, Clinical Nurse Specialist License, expires 8/31/12
1998 Home Health C.N.S., Board Certified. ANCC, expires 11/30/13
1992 R.N., Gerontological Nursing, Board Certified. ANCC, expires 8/31/13
1989 P.H.N. California Public Health Nurse
HONORS
2011 Nursing Excellence-California Coalition of Nursing Careers
2006 RN of the Year-Education, San Joaquin Valley Coalition Nursing Organization
2003 Sigma Theta Tau Contribution of Education in the Nursing Community Award
1999 California Senatorial Award for Outstanding Nursing Care
1997 VFW National Health Care Professional of the Year Award
Presentations
Career Ladders”, Mexican American Youth Association Annual Conference, Madera California, 2003-2008
“Telemedicine’s Role in Home Care” - 22nd Annual Central California Research Symposium, California State University, Fresno, 2001
“Application of Parse’s Theory to In-Home Fall Prevention” - Sigma Theta Tau (Mu Nu) Chapter Research Symposium, California State University, Fresno and the Veterans Administration Central California Health Care System, Fresno, California. 2000
“Preventing Falls at Home in High Risk Elderly” - Sigma Theta Tau (Mu Nu) Chapter Research Symposium, California State University, Fresno and the Veterans Administration Central California Health Care System, Fresno, California, 1999
Scope of Instructional
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