1982 BSN, St
Xavier University -
1987 MSN,
Professional Experience
1997
Assistant
Professor –
Responsibilities: Teaching nursing students in N220
– Psychiatric, both lecture and clinical. Teaching nursing students in N252 –
Geriatric Nursing, both lecture and clinical. Academic Advising
1993
Staff
Nurse, Operating Room - Rush
Presbyterian, St Luke’s
Responsibilities: In General Surgery – As
circulating nurse, greeting in coming patients, obtaining instruments and
equipment needed by surgeons
1991
Staff
Nurse, Intensive Care Unit –
Responsibilities: Patient care for critically ill
patients, including interpreting telemetry strips, post-op care for surgical
patients.
1989
Nurse
Manager –
Responsibilities: 24- hour responsibility for a 20 bed
locked psychiatric unit. Staff scheduling including hiring of new staff,
budgeting for all unit needs, leading patient groups, providing continuing
education for staff
1987
Nurse
Manager – Little Company of
Responsibilities: 24-hour responsibility for a 30
bed locked psychiatric unit. Staff scheduling including hiring of new staff
budgeting for all unit needs, leading patient groups, providing continuing
education for staff, monthly on call for entire hospital.
1983 Staff Nurse – Stress Disorders Unit, Rush Presbyterian, St.
Luke’s
Responsibilities: Patient care of psychiatric patients with diagnosis of
depression, anxiety disorders and stress related medical conditions.
Counseling, relaxation therapy sessions, acute intervention when needed.
1982 Staff Nurse – Geriatric Telemetry Unit, Rush Presbyterian, St
Luke’s
Responsibilities: Patient care of patients 65 and
older, interpreting telemetry strips
Professional Organizations
1982 Sigma
Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, St
Xavier University
2005
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Continuing Education
2002 Elnec,
End of Life Curriculum Development,
2004
New Drugs 04, Part II, Nursing 2004, 3.0 contact
hours/3.0 advanced pharmacology hours
2004
Seizures 101, Nursing 2004, 2.0 contact
hours/0.5 advanced pharmacology hours
2004
Oral Complications at the End of Life, AJN, 1.5
contact hours
2004 In Defense of the Body; How
the Immune System Protects us From Harm. Nursing Made
Incredibly Easy, 1.5 contact hours
2004 Anxiety Disorders:
Helping Your Patient Conquer Her Fears, Nursing 2004, 2.0 contact hours/0.5
advanced pharmacology hours
2004
Pain Control: COX – 2 Selective NSAID’s, AJN, 1.0
contact hours
2004
Palliative Care: Prognostication and the Chronically
Ill, AJN, 1.5 contact hours
2004
The Challenge to Come: The Care of Older Adults,
AJN, 2.0 contact hours
2004 Sorting out the 3 D’s:
Delirium, Dementia, and Depression, Nursing 2004, 2.5 contact
hours/1.5 advanced pharmacology hours
2004 Truth –Telling: Ethical
Issues in Clinical Practice, Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 1.5
contact hours
2004 New Drugs 04, Part III,
Nursing 2004, 2.5 contact hours/2.5 advanced pharmacology hours
2006 Presentation of Illness
in Older Adults, AJN, 2.0 contact hours/advanced pharmacology hours
2006 Cognitive Changes in
Cancer Survivors, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Continuing Education, 2.5
contact hours
2006 Cancer – Related Fatigue and Sleep
Disturbances, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Continuing Education, 2.0
contact hours
2006 Preventing Adverse Drug Events, Lippincott
Williams and Wilkins Continuing Education, 2.0 contact hours
2006 Pain and Neuropathy in Cancer Survivors,
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Continuing Education, 3.0 contact
hours
2006 Directions in Psychiatric Nursing Volume 5,
The Hatherleigh Company, 30 contact hours
2006 Directions in Substance Abuse Counseling, The
Hatherleigh Company, 10 contact hours
2006 Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously
Simple, Ce4Less.com, 4 contact hours