Experience

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  Eastern shore hospital center

  Jun 1984 - Aug 1989

  Registered nurse

  Direct patient care, medications, treatments, admissions, discharges, andassignment of LPN's and direct care assistants, employee counseling, nursing discharge summaries, employee scheduling, and patient educationWorked as LPN June 1984 - September 1987 while completing RN education.

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  Chesapeake youth center

  Aug 1989 - Jan 2004

  Assistant administrator and director of nursing

  Direct nursing care of adolescents including counselor assignments, admissions, discharges, medications and treatments, Employee health, patient infection control, First Aid and CPR Instruction and competencies for staff, direct supervision of a staff nurses, counselors, secretaries and housekeepers, hiring and termination, staff scheduling, employee evaluations, risk management, infection control, staff education, policy development and budget patient program planning. Responsible for the planning, licensure and opening of a new 28 bed residential unit for adolescents in 1997, coordination of consulting staff, contract writing and renewals Show less

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  Peninsula regional medical center

  Feb 2004 - Oct 2004

  Staff nurse

  Staff Nurse for 3 South - Psych Mental Health Acute Inpatient Unit

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  Dorchester county health department

  Oct 2004 - Jan 2005

  Community health nurse

  Regional Coordinator for HIV Program for High Risk Males (Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester Counties)

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  Salisbury university

  Jan 2005 - now

  Director and professor

  Clinical Instructor for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Senior Internship. Also teach theory for Psychiaric Mental Health Nursing, Senior Seminar (Management and Leadership), Family Nursing (Graduate Course) and Clinical Nurse Educator Practicum (Graduate Course). Chairing Doctoral Nursing Projects in DNP program. Appointed Director for the School of Nursing in July 2021 after serving in an interim role. Previous Undergraduate Program Chair 2018-2020 and Associate Chair 2009-2018.