Sharon Burch, RN, MSN
** ***** *****, ***** ***, AR 71957
Phone: 870-***-****
*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
● Help people get well and stay well while honoring their body, mind and spirit
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
● More than 30 years' experience in nursing and more than 15 years' experience in online marketing (those
years overlap)
● Nursing experience is primarily in long term care, home care and hospice and includes 5 years as a Director
of Nursing in a large skilled facility
● Skilled at using the internet to achieve multiple goals and tasks
● Skilled listener, problem solver and health educator
● I also have an inactive nurse practitioner license that I can activate if desired
WORK EXPERIENCE
Energy Medicine Practitioner and Educator
Awakening to Grace
Nonprofit Organization focused on Holistic Health, Wellness and Sustainability
August 2010 – Present (2 years 7 months) Mount Ida, Arkansas
Awakening to Grace helps people awaken to the incredible reality of the Infinite Grace that creates and sustains us.
Through personal mentoring and group classes, Awakening to Grace helps people come into Right Relationship with
themselves, their families, friends, community and All that Is. The primary services offered are 1) personal Energy
Medicine consultations in which clients are assisted to tap areas of themselves where they feel limited, and
transform those areas into sources of power 2) a guided home study program to Awaken, Explore and Nourish Your
Inner Shaman, and 3) a Peaceful Dying weekend program to learn how to support dying in peace.
Facilitator and Elder
Bluefield Farm
2006 – Present (7 years) North Manchester, Indiana
Manages this 26 acre organic farm as a sustainable and educational part of the Wabash county community.
Owner and Manager
Holly Ridge Retreat
2005 – 2012 (7 years) Mount Ida, Arkansas
Owned and managed a peaceful, forested vacation home 30 minutes from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Owner and Chief Visionary
Health Positive!
1993 – 2010 (17 years) Lawrence, Kansas and Hot Springs, Arkansas areas
Created and directed this online continuing education company that sold CE home study courses for massage
therapists, bodyworkers and nurses. Author of two textbooks on pathology for massage therapists and more than 40
home study CE courses. I sold this business in July, 2010.
Director of Nursing
Montgomery County Nursing Home
2003 – 2005 (2 years) Mount Ida, Arkansas
Director of Nursing
Managed the nursing staff and nursing care in this 110 bed skilled facility
Hospice Nurse (RN)
Hospice Care of Douglas County
1995 – 1998 (3 years) Lawrence, Kansas Area
Assisted terminally ill people and their families to cope with impending death. Responsibilities included patient
assessments patient care management teaching families how to provide care, respond to their experience and
support one another creating a volunteer massage team and collaborating with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
Also
Extensive work in home health care and long term care from 1976 to 1993 in the Indianapolis, IN area
EDUCATION
● Masters degree in community health nursing from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (1993)
● Bachelors degree in nursing from New York Regents Degrees, Albany, NY (1981)
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Highly skilled in computer use including text and spreadsheet based applications and internet research
REFERENCES
Available upon request