About

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurse R.N., C.S., M.S., L.P.C., P.L.N.C.

Professional Experience
1989 – Present: Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse and Licensed
Professional Counselor, engaged in the private practice of psychotherapy.
Areas of special interest: Forensic Psychiatry (consultant to local and other
county jails for psychotropic medication evaluation and management);
Depression, Anxiety, Obsesessive-Compulsive Disorders; PTSD and ADHD;
BiPolar and Borderline Personality Disorder; Anger Management and issues
of abuse; Prescriptive Authority–medication evaluation, prescription,
monitoring. Evaluate patients for bariatric surgery/support group for post
surgical patients. Instructor, Central Wyoming Community College (Human
Service curriculum). Consultant (organizational communication, conflict
resolution, institutional evaluation/investigation. Professional Legal Nurse
Consultant—Expert Psychiatric Nurse witness (prosecution and defense);
Review, interpretation and organization of psychiatric records. Group
facilitator for Family Caregivers, Senior Center of Jackson Hole.

1985 – 1989: Psychiatric nurse engaged in the private practice of
psychotherapy. Consultant, the Van Vleck House (youth and family services);
Therapist, Summer Experience Program (pre-teen recreational/group
therapy); Instructor, Central Wyoming College, for Jackson based
community education courses and workshops (Enhancing your mental health,
Issues of living, Supervision skills, Career dynamics, Stress seminars,
Communication skills, Women and body image, Handling anger).

1983 – 1985: Community Relations Co-ordinator, St. John’s Hospital, Jackson,
Wyoming; Private practice, psychiatric nursing; Instructor, Central Wyoming
College/Jackson community education.

1982 – 1983: Family/Community Services Specialist, Office of Public
Assistance and Social Services, Jackson, Wyoming. Responsible for Child
Protection Services (investigations and follow-up for incest, abuse, and
neglect complaints); Day Care Licensing; Juvenile Court; liaison with all
community organizations, law enforcement, and public institutions.

1979 – 1982: Western Wyoming Mental Health Center, Jackson, Wyoming.
Clinic Co-ordinator, Teton Community Mental Health Clinic. Duties included
clinical caseload, supervision, administration; Chairperson, Youth Council,
Chairperson, Child Protection Team; Chairperson, Human Resource Council;
Chairperson, Child Protection Coordinating Council; member, ad hoc
committee on substance abuse. Outpatient clinical caseload included
children, adolescents, adults, marital, family, elderly, and group therapy in
addition to individual psychotherapy, VietNam Veterans, medication clinic,
emergency services coordinator; inpatient treatment; jail services;
community liaison; fundraising; public relations.

1978 – 1979: Elderly Specialist–responsible for clinical caseload in addition to administrative, supervisory, and program planning for elderly in Western
Wyoming.

1977 – 1978: Charge Nurse, Uinta County Public Health Nursing Agency,
Evanston, Wyoming/State of Wyoming: Opened agency, established
programming, services for adults, children, and the elderly; public
education, direct services, administration, supervision, and coordination.
Also assisted as back-up circulating nurse in local hospital and served on the
Uinta County Ambulance Service.

Educational Preparation
1975 – 1977: Doctoral study, the University of Michigan School of Public
Health, Medical Care Organization and Health Services Administration.
Theory and research coursework, including program evaluation. Committees:
Women’s Commission; Rape Crisis Center. Concurrent employment:
Utilization Review Coordinator, Chelsea Community Hospital, Chelsea,
Michigan; Resident Director, West Quad, University of Michigan Student
Services–administrative, counseling, and supervisory duties. Summer
employment: private duty nursing in nursing home, staff relief, and for
agency; Camp Nurse, University of Michigan Camp Davis, Jackson, Wyoming.

1973 – 1975: M.S., Psychiatric Nursing, the University of Michigan Horace H.
Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Program Content: two year, 48 credit
program focused on three content areas–theory, research; student
representative to faculty; Search Committee, Dean, Horace H. Rackham
School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan. Concurrent/summer
employment–Psychiatric staff nurse, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant,
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Instructor and summer Department
Chairperson, Environmental Health, Wayne County Community College,
Detroit, Michigan (also taught theory for psychiatric nursing course); staff
nurse for temporary nursing employment agency; Camp Nurse, University of
Michigan Camp Davis, Jackson, Wyoming.

1969 – 1973: B.S.N., University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor,
Michigan. Program Content: Liberal arts courses for first year; Anatomy and
Physiology (cadaver lab, micro lab, lecture); Pharmacology; Microbiology;
Pathophysiology; Nutrition; Organic and Biochemistry; Introduction to
Nursing; semester courses in Maternal-Child Health, Psychiatric Nursing,
Medical/Surgical Nursing (placement in V.A. hospital in addition to medical
center); Public Health Nursing.

Honors Alpha Lambda Delta (honor society); Angel Scholar (consecutive all 4.0 semesters) six times; graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of
Michigan. Committees: Search Committee, University of Michigan School of
Nursing Deanship; student representative to faculty. Summer employment:
Staff Nurse, nursing home; Nursing Home Research Project Research
Assistant; Staff Nurse, Adolescent Psychiatry, Neuro-Psychiatric Institute,
University of Michigan Medical Center.

1966 – 1969: Valedictorian, Henry Ford High School, Detroit, Michigan.
College preparatory curriculum.

Licensure
Registered Nurse, Michigan #101062
Advanced Practice Nurse with Prescriptive Authority, Wyoming #8459
Advanced Practitioner of Nursing, American Nurses Association #124404
Licensed Professional Counselor, Wyoming #259 DEA #MD0271320

Certification
Professional Legal Nurse Consultant
ANCC—Certified by the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center

References
Available on request

Community Organizations/Participation
Professional: Former Member, State of Wyoming Department of Health
Advisory Committee; former member, State of Wyoming Department of
Health Division of Behavioral Health advisory committee; Business and
Professional Women (nominee for Woman of the Year, 1983; Award for “The
Promotion of the Advancement of Women in the Workplace): American
Nurses Association/Wyoming Nurses Association (Past Chair of the Council
on Economics and General Welfare; Past President of District Nurses
Association; Chairperson, Committee on Revision of the Standards of
Nursing Practice, Wyoming State Board of Nursing; Sigma Theta Tau
(National Nursing Honor Society); American Nurses Association; American
Nurses Association Council on Clinical Nurse Specialists; American Nurses
Foundation–Century Club (charter member); American Nurses Association
Political Action Committee; Outstanding Young Women of American, l982;
League of Women Voters; Reviewer, nursing articles for LippincottWilliams
journal publications. Courtesy staff member, St. John’s Medical Center
Medical Staff. Special Investigator for the Wyoming Protection and
Advocacy system / Wyoming State (mental) Hospital.
Community: President, Board of Directors, Wyoming Protection and
Advocacy: Current: Secretary, Board of Directors, Senior Center of
Jackson Hole Member, American Nurses Credentialing Center certification
department Content Expert Panel.
Past: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole Distribution Committee;
member, negotiating panel, which successfully resolved a lawsuit between
the State of Wyoming and the Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System,
Inc.; President, Wyoming Protection and Advocacy System, Inc. 1986-88;
Vice President, 1985-86; Secretary/Treasurer, 1983-85; trustee,
l979-83. Secretary/Treasurer, Teton County Senior Citizen’s Advisory
Board, 1979-86. President, Teton County Task Force on Family Violence and Sexual Assault, l986-90.