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Work Experience

• Assistant Professor
  Â鶹ԭ´´ — School of Nursing
  
  Focused in Community Health didactic and Clinical settings

  Prearing students for Scholarly Inquiry with the ability to critique research articles, prepare a literature table bibliography and relate this to evidence-based practice in the clinical setting
  08/01/2023
• Interim Director of the Bower School-based Health Center
  Â鶹ԭ´´ — Basic High School - Henderson, NV
  
  Maintain quality client interactions for school-aged children accessing the school-based health center. Oversee staffing and work with the center manager to review operational needs. Write grants to secure funding for special needs children with asthma in conjunction with the American Lung Association local chapter.
  08/01/2015 - 05/01/2016
• Lecturer
  Â鶹ԭ´´ — School of Nursing
  
  Teaching undergraduate and RN-BSN students in Fundamentals, Professional Role Development, Caring Science Theory, Health Assessment, and Community specialties. Teaching prepared in didactic, lab, and clinical settings
  01/01/2014 - 07/01/2023
• Regional Home Therapy Manager
  Fresenius Medical Care — Las Vegas - Reno- So. California Region
  
  Oversight of 24 Home Therapy programs for education, quality, and business initiatives, serving 424 patients. No. 1 in the Western region for home therapy quality outcomes.
  02/01/2010 - 12/01/2013
• Education Coordinator
  Fresenius Medical Care — Las Vegas, Â鶹ԭ´´
  
  Prepared to teach didactic, skills, and clinical settings, including out-patient, acute hospital settings, and specializing in Home Therapies, 08/2008
  09/01/2005 - 02/01/2010
• Right Start Case Manager
  Fresenius Medical Care — Las Vegas, Â鶹ԭ´´
  
  Initiated a company-wide case management program in the Las Vegas market aimed at improving incidence patient outcomes as they are initiated on dialysis for ESRD.
  09/01/2005 - 04/01/2006
• Education Coordinator
  Fresenius Medical Care — Alamogordo, Las Cruces and Deming, New Mexico
  
  Prepared to teach didactic, skills, and clinical settings, including out-patient, and acute hospital settings.
  05/01/2003 - 09/01/2005
• Facility Manager
  Renal Care Group — Alamogordo, New Mexico
  
  Managerial responsibilities for staffing a 16-chair dialysis unit while encountering an increasing patient census. Worked with staff to successfully complete a CMS survey for quality outcomes and started a two-chair acute unit at the local hospital. 
  01/01/2001 - 03/01/2004
• Acute dialysis RN
  Renal Care Group — Las Cruces Memorial Medical Hospital, New Mexico
  
  On-call and routine dialysis procedures in a hospital dialysis unit for new and established patients - hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis procedures offered. Assistance provided for new dialysis catheter insertions for patients needing hemodialysis access.
  07/01/2000 - 01/01/2002
• Critical Care Float Pool RN
  Memorial Medical Hospital — Las Cruces, New Mexico
  
  Rotating in PACU, ER, ICU and Telemtery settings providing care to an average census of 8-9 patients per shift.
  08/01/1999 - 07/01/2000
• Military Medical Assistant
  Holloman AFB Family Practice/GYN/Pediatric Clinics — Alamogordo, New Mexico
  
  Taking subjective histories from patients scheduled for clinic appointments in a variety of specialties
  06/01/1998 - 08/01/1999
• Cardio-thoracic ICU RN
  Papworth NHS Trust Hospital — Papworth Everard, Cambridge, England
  
  Caring in a specialized adult ICU for cardio-thoracic patients post-surgery, post-transplant, medically unstable patients, ventilator-dependent patients, and multi-organ complex care. 
  04/01/1995 - 12/01/1997
• Telemetry RN on a Cardio-thoracic private care wing
  Papworth NHS Trust Hospital — Papworth Everard, Cambridge, England
  
  Medical and post-surgical/procedural care of patients admitted to a private wing of a hospital. Same-day procedures, as well as overnight admission care, are provided for cardiothoracic patients, using Orem's self-care model to facilitate the transition from hospital to home care. Education to improve self-support and cardiac rehabilitation was a focal component of success. 
  10/01/1992 - 10/01/1994