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Current Employment:
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St.
Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, TMC |
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Position:
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Nurse Manager, Rehabilitation |
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ARN Member Since: |
1991 |
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SETX Chapter ARN Member Since:
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1991 |
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| SETX Chapter ARN Involvement: |
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- One Year Board Member –
2009-2010
- One Year Board Member – 2000
- Secretary – 2001 |
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Why did you decide to join
SETX Chapter ARN? |
| I wanted to learn more about
rehabilitation and rehabilitation issues from educational offerings
and for networking with persons from other facilities. |
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Awards Received: |
| - 2003 Rehabilitation Nurse
of the Year, Nurse Manager |
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| Community Involvement: |
| MS150 – 2008 and 2009 |
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Exceptional Accomplishment: |
| I completed the MS 150 just
after my 50th birthday and after having been diagnosed with MS 6
years before. |
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Hobbies, Special Interests: |
| Reading, bicycling |
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Previous Experience: |
| Working in the ICU got me my
start in encouraging patients to do more for themselves. This
continued with my experience in dialysis. Dialysis patients also
gave me more insight into people dealing with chronic health issues. |
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What Rehabilitation Nursing
Means to Me: |
I think my rehabilitation
experience actually started when I was a new RN working in the ICU.
Even though the patients were almost total care, I did what I could
to encourage them to do something to help themselves. It wasn’t
until I “fell” into the world of rehabilitation that I realized I
had found my niche.
As a rehabilitation nurse, I have had opportunities to assist
patients and their families and caregivers to take active roles in
the recovery from the condition that brought them to the unit. It
has been gratifying to be able to see patients improve both
physically and emotionally while on the rehabilitation unit.
So, I guess what rehabilitation nursing means to me is to have the
ability and gift to support people in their recoveries and to see
them show the confidence in assuming their own care.
And on a final note….
I have chickens that sometime lay eggs, but most of the time they
are only fertilizing the yard and teasing the new dog from the back
window. |