Registered Nurse Manager

Kristina E. King, MS RN FNP-C CH

Nurse Practitioner & Registered Nurse License: States of Arizona, Maine,

and Massachusetts

E-mail Address: *********************@*****.***

Telephone: 207-***-**** (cell)

Educational Background

University of Southern Maine 2006-2009 golden key, sigma theta tau

honors,

FNP Options student (combined RN/NP) Portland, Maine

Master Herbalist Program 2008-2010, 400+ hours of in-

depth herbal training

Clinical herbalist student David

Winston, RH (AHG), Washington, New Jersey

Middlebury College 1975-1980 magna cum laude, phi

beta kappa

BA, honors in fine art and history Middlebury, Vermont

St. Paul's School high school 1973-75 cum laude

Honors in fine art and history Concord, New Hampshire

Certificate Courses & Professional Training:

? Osteopathic byodynamic manipulation training and treatment

administration under

direct supervision of Dr. Dustin Sulak, DO. (March 2012 to

June 2013).

? Advanced Trauma Life Support (2012)

? Mederi Foundation's ETMS integrative cancer training (May and

September 2011)

? Pediatric Advanced Life Support (2010)

? Advanced Cardiac Life Support (2010)

? Basic Life Support for Professionals (2010)

? Youth Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training (Maine Youth

Suicide Prevention Program and Maine Center for

Disease Prevention) 2009

? The Trauma Resiliency Model Training, Level 1 (Elaine Miller-

Karas, MSW, LCSW

and Laurie Leitch, PhD, Trauma Resource Institute)

2009

? Behavioral Health Consulting in the Primary Care Setting, (Dr.

Kirk Strosahl) 2008

? ACE Scores & Chronic Illness (Dr. Vincent Felitte, Kaiser

Permanente) 2008

Employment & Clinical Experience

Maine Integrative Healthcare, Manchester, Maine. Medical Staff.

Clinical care for people with severe chronic conditions such as

cancer, MS, advanced DM II, etc., medication dependence/abuse, and

pain management issues. March 2012 to June 2013. Moved to Pioneer

Valley to be closer to partner.

Islands Community Medical Center, Vinalhaven, Maine. Medical Staff.

Full-spectrum family medicine including urgent, psychiatric, addiction

and emergency care for an island with year around population of 1,200.

Took call and answered 911 calls. Sept 2011 to March 2012.

Hopi Health Care Center, Polacca, Arizona. Medical Staff. Full-

spectrum family medicine in Indian Health Service ER, urgent and

primary care and community settings for Hopi and Navajo patients. In

charge of clinic at Hopi Junior and Senior High School. Aug 2009 to

Sept 2011.

Midcoast Medicine, Rockport, Maine. While student. Integrative primary

care setting. Mary Ashmore, DO, Laura Grimes, Herbalist/MD, and Kristi

Kalajian, PA, supervising. Fall 2008 to Spring 2009

Family Planning Association of Maine, Rockland, Maine. While student.

Family planning and STD clinic. Susan Lord, FNP, supervising. Fall

2008

DFD Russell Medical Center, Leeds & Monmouth, Maine. While student.

Rural primary care setting using collaborative care model and

integrated behavioral health. John Yindra, MD, supervising. Spring

2008

Other Employment History

University of Southern Maine September 2007 to May 2009

Graduate Assistant Portland, Maine

Assisted Associate Instructor Corinne Martin with three courses,

Spirituality and Health, Botanical Therapies, and Holistic Health.

Duties included grading papers and exams and maintaining educational

websites for local and distance-learning sites.

Avena Botanicals October 2004 to 2008

Consultant/Production/Sales Rockport, Maine

Represented Avena Botanicals at trade shows and conferences. Prepared

herbal remedies and products for sale to wholesale and retail

customers. Worked with walk-in and telephone customers. Designed

marketing pieces for in-store and wholesale use. Consulted with

outside designer and printer to produce labels for more than two

hundred products. Ensured FDA compliance. Enhanced efficiency and

accuracy of production department by optimizing layout, equipment and

workflow.

Ashwood Waldorf School Fall 2002 to 2005

Teacher and Assistant Teacher Rockport, Maine

Taught or co-taught all aspects of a diverse Handwork curriculum for

children ages 6 through 15. Substituted as lead teacher and classroom

teacher as needed. Developed curriculum and taught demanding,

physically challenging Forming Arts curriculum for 5th through 8th

graders. Course work included traditional New England stonewall

building, organic gardening and wood-fired bake oven construction.

Sought and coordinated guest instructors, obtained course funding via

grant writing and purchased and maintained equipment and materials.

Peabody & King/Meander Spring 1996 to September 2001

Retail Store Owner then Manager Rockland, Maine

Conceived, planned and operated a high-end retail store in busy

downtown Rockland, Maine location. Hired and supervised staff of 5-10

employees while maintaining exceptional employee loyalty. Oversaw

growth and sale of business. Continued as manager for 18 months

following business transfer. Business named one of ten outstanding

retail enterprises in Down East magazine in July 2001. Left when new

owner assumed control of the business in the fall of 2001.

Real Estate Appraiser 1989 to 1992

Midcoast Appraisals Rockland, Maine

Appraised residential and commercial real estate for private, estate

and bank clients. Licensed by the State of Maine.

UBS: United Retirement Bulletin 1985 to 1989

Editor/Assistant Editor Boston, Massachusetts

Planned content, researched and produced monthly, paid-subscription

newsletter on retirement, health and aging issues for Boston financial

management firm. Supervised in-house and freelance writers. Oversaw

research collections for many aspects of aging and geriatric health.

Member of the American Society on Aging. Conceived, planned and

completed conversion from traditional, out-of-house print production

to desktop production-the first such publication to do this in Boston

Bullock's Department Stores 1980 to 1984

Management Trainee then Manager Los Angeles, California

Chosen for management training program with industry-leading, high-end

fashion retailer. Trained in inventory control, retail data collection

and analysis, personnel management, buying, display design and

customer service.

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Workshop/Lecture Facilitation & Articles

Featured Garden: Our Neighbors Gardens, Rockland Public Library

fundraising tour, July 2012.

Lecturer: Food as Medicine, Garden as Apothecary, Rural Living Day,

Waldo Extension Service, March 2012.

Lecturer: House, Cottage, Garden, our one-third acre urban garden,

Rockland Public Library, January 2009

Featured Garden: "Down to Earth," Country Living Magazine, March 2008.

Lecturer: Herbals in clinical practice, University of Southern Maine,

2007

Presenter: Study of postpartum depression screening in primary care,

to Maine Primary Care

Association, 2007

Presenter: JUICE, Conference on Creative Economy in Maine, November

2007

Featured Garden, Cottage Garden Living

Lecturer: Kitchen Gardens in the Home Landscape, Merryspring Nature

Park, 2005 & 2006

Lecturer: What is Slow Food? Rising Tide and Blue Hill Coops annual

meetings, 2005

Presenter: Financial Fluency workshop, Women Work and Community 2003

Other Skills

Communications: Motivation, training, team building, needs assessment,

and

curriculum planning.

Writing: Newsletter, newspaper and magazine pieces for national

audiences, marketing

for large and small businesses, and research using technical and

medical databases.

Design: Desktop newsletter production, graphic design, space planning,

display design and implementation, garden design (personal cottage

garden profiled in Country Living magazine, March 2008).

Strategic Planning: Short and long-term planning for large and small

businesses as employee, owner, consultant, grant writer and resource

optimizer.

Healthy Lifestyle: Organic gardening for over 25 years, bicycle

commuting, whole foods utilization, and alternative healing

modalities.

Awards, Honors, Professional & Community Affiliations

Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners

Maine Nurse Practitioners Association

American Herbalist Guild

Golden Key International Honour Society, University of Southern Maine,

invited 2009

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, University of

Southern Maine, invited 2009

National Health Service Corps Scholar, for national organization

providing primary healthcare to the underserved. July 2007 to present

Graduate Assistantship, University of Southern Maine, 2007-2009

academic years

Merit Scholarship Recipient, University of Southern Maine Scholarship

Fund, 2008.

Co-leader, Co-founder, Slow Food Maine, international organization

preserving authentic regional foods and food ways, delegate to

National Congress in 2003, delegate to International Congress in

Naples, Italy, in 2004, contributor to national publication Snail,

Nominated Maine delegates to Terra Madre, an international 5000-farmer

conference, held in 2005 in Bologna, Italy. Involvement from 2001 to

present

SCORE, green business counselor, 2003 to 2004.

Midcoast Review, contributing green business writer with monthly

column, Deliberate Working, 2001 to 2004

Women, Work and Community, volunteer working with women in transition.

Taught courses on financial planning and healthy lifestyle, 2002 to

2003

Penobscot Bay YMCA, Board of Directors, during planning and

construction of a $12 million regional facility, 2001 to 2003

Good Tern Coop, Board Member of local natural food cooperative, 1993

to 1996

Radio Personality, co-broadcast with DJ Jonathan Levine a weekly

gardening program, WBach 1995-1998

American Society on Aging, institutional member from 1985 to 1988

References

Pamela Bahler, FNP, medical staff, Hopi Health Care Center, Polacca,

AZ 86042.

Telephone: 928-***-**** E-mail: ******.******@***.*** (Colleague)

Eileen Fingerman, MD, instructor Dartmouth-Hitchcock Family Practice

Residency and former interim Medical Director, Islands Community

Medical Services, Vinalhaven, ME. Telephone: 207-***-**** E-mail:

********@*********.*** (Former Supervisor)

Valli Geiger, RN, consultant and until recently Director of Quality

Maine Primary Care Association, Augusta, ME Telephone: 207-***-**** E-

mail: *****@********.*** (Friend, Neighbor and Colleague)

Dustin Sulak, DO, founder, Maine Integrative Healthcare,

Manchester, Maine. Telephone: 207-***-**** E-mail:

******@*******.***. (Colleague, Mentor)

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