ARN Southeast Texas Chapter

Jorge Arenivar, RN

Current Employment:	Transitional Learning Center - Galveston
Position:	Nurse Liaison
Identifying post-acute rehabilitation candidates who meet program criteria and who will benefit from TLC post-acute rehabilitation program services
ARN Member Since:	December 2007
SETX Chapter ARN Member Since:	December 2007
SETX Chapter ARN Involvement:	Program Committee 2008
Why did you decide to join SETX Chapter ARN?
Networking and professional development
Awards Received:
Employee of the year in 2001 for a rural hospital district in the Texas Panhandle
Community Involvement:
“I was previously a volunteer paramedic on a rural EMS service.”
Exceptional Accomplishment:
“My family was profiled in the 2003 Oscar nominated documentary “Spellbound”, about the 1999 national spelling bee.”
Hobbies, Special Interests:
Fishing and sports. Professional special interest: Health disparities amongst Hispanics and rural nursing.
Previous Experience:
“I was previously employed at TIRR for approximately 5 years and worked on the neuro-rehabilitation unit. I began my career as a nursing assistant and worked through school/career to my current position. I was a paramedic prior to becoming and LVN and then an RN.”
What does Rehabilitation Nursing means to me:
“Rehabilitation nursing to me means advocacy for clients and their families along the rehabilitation continuum.”
Anything else that you would like to share?
“My parents immigrated illegally to the United States from Mexico in 1978 when I was 5 years old. For some odd reason, I can still vividly remember crossing the river to enter the United States of America. I always remember this particular event in my life because it has given me inspiration time and time again. The inspiration has come from the bravery my mother was able to demonstrate to me first hand in crossing the border illegally with her two children. So when things go wrong or the going gets tough, I always replay the scene in my mind of my mother and the processes she went through with her two children and all the risks she faced and conquered in entering a foreign country illegally. The thought quickly puts my worries at ease and my problems in perspective.”

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