Experience Overview: Experienced registered nurse and nursing instructor; education includes preparation for advanced practice as a Mental Health and an Adult Nurse Practitioner; provided care to a wide variety of clients in hospital, nursing home, and home settings.
Nursing Experience
Employed by Brazosport College, Health Professions faculty, ADN full-time instructor beginning August 2008
Employed by Galveston College, ADN Program full-time instructor for 6 years; adjunct January-July 2008, teaching first year, first and second semester nursing students’ class and clinical, instruction in Foundations of Nursing Practice, Nursing Skills, and Nursing Clinical didactic and on-site Clinical supervision in a local nursing home fall semesters; taught Common Concepts didactic, Clinical didactic content, and on-site student supervision at a local hospital for Medical-Surgical student rotation in the spring semester, taught Medication Calculations for the fall semester and IV Calculations for the spring semester. taught Nursing Process, taught Mental Health classroom and coordinated clinical during each 6-week session Summer I
Employed by Devereux Texas Treatment Center providing supervision and medication administration for inpatient adult mental health clients as staff and relief charge nurse; Employed by Alvin Community College, teaching as an ADN Program full-time instructor for first semester first year students including didactic Nursing Skills and Clinical supervision; Employed by Pulse Home Care, providing medication supervision and counseling for homebound mental health clients; Employed by Nightingale Nursing Services, as an agency RN for home care clients and hospital relief staff nurse; Employed by Baywood Psychiatric Hospital, as a staff and charge nurse for adult mental health inpatient units;Employed by Vitas Innovative Hospice Care, managing in-home care for Hospice clients; Employed by Coastal Pines Care Center, as Director of Nursing for nursing home clients; Employed by Winchester Lodge, as Director of Nursing for nursing home clients; Employed by Methodist Hospital, as staff nurse in Medical and Cardiac ICU.