Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse

Beverly S. La Mar, MSN, ARNP, NP-C

PO BOX ***, Manson, WA, 98831. H.509-***-****, C.509-***-****

Qualifications

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with over 16 years nursing experience.

Background in family practice, chronic disease management, patient education, leadership

research, project management, nephrology nursing and internal medicine.

Caring, professional, self motivated, strong organizational skills.

Committed to collaborative community based patient care and evidence based practice.

Credentials

Family Nurse Practitioner, ARNP (WA) – AP 60404033

Registered Nurse (WA) – RN60321851

Emergency Medical Technician – E3102572

Registered Nurse (B.C) – 900294

AANPCP certified – F0713469

Canadian Nurse Association specialty - Nephrology, 2006, 2011

Education

Master of Science in Nursing with diploma in Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner, University of Ottawa, 2012

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 2004

Registered Nurse Diploma, British Columbia Institute of Technology, 1997

Associate Degree of Arts, Capilano College, 1994

NP Clinical Preceptorship

Vancouver Family Health Centre, Vancouver BC Sept 2011 to Aug 2012

NP Student Responsible for family practice medical care (all ages), case management, home visits, writing

referrals, writing reports, and collaborating with other health professionals.

Professional experience

Providence Health Care, Vancouver BC June 1997- Present

Patient Educator for the renal program (2004-2013)

Responsible for the training and ongoing case management and on-call support for patients and their families

undergoing Home Hemodialysis in B.C. and the Yukon Territory. Program development, writing educational

material, patient recruitment, staff education, and policy development.

Achievements:

Project lead in a quality improvement project designed to increase patients using home dial

2011.

Project lead in the development of a provincial home hemodialysis training manual for educato

Chair/Lead for the Home Hemodialysis Clinical Practice Group Committee.

Registered Nurse (1997-2004)

Total nursing care in acute hemodialysis, community hemodialysis and internal medicine.

Publications and Invited Presentations

Original research: Principle investigator: Maiden name (Sondrup)

Beverly S. La Mar, MSN, ARNP, NP-C

PO BOX 541, Manson, WA, 98831. H.509-***-****, C.509-***-****

Sondrup, B., Copland, M., Black, A., & Trask, M. (2011). Supporting patient choice: An intervention

to promote independent dialysis therapies. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 38 (6), 491-497.

Poster presentations:

Sondrup, B., & Lewis, M. Patient knowledge and attitudes towards independent hemodialysis:

A structured Literature review. Presented at the Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and

Technicians conference, Toronto, 2010

Schachter M, Wu K, Li G, Sondrup B, Thomas S, Cabezon E, Greanya E, Erb N, Djurdjev O, Levin A,

Singh RS, Copland M. Comparison of Infections in Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis . Presented

at the Nephrology World Congress, Milan Italy, 2009

Visiting speaker

October 2011: Visiting speaker at the British Columbia Nephrology days. Supporting Patient Choice

an Intervention to support home based dialysis. Vancouver, BC.

April 2011: Visiting speaker, Vancouver Hospital, Nephrology grand rounds. Home dialysis options,

what every renal professional needs to know about PD and HHD options . Vancouver, BC.

February 2011: Visiting speaker to 3 Kuwait hospitals (Adan, Farwaniya and Mubarak) at the invitation

of the Nephrology Association, presentations included: Who is a home hemodialysis candidate? Recruitment

and building capacity for home hemodialysis. Kuwait.

October, 2006: Visiting Co-speaker. Get me home: our story of building capacity to support patients

Achieve this goal. Presented at the Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technicians conference

London, Ontario.

Professional Committees and memberships

American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2013

Provincial Renal Agency Home Hemodialysis Operational Committee (2004-2012)

Providence Health Care Renal Clinical Practice Group (2004-2012)

Provincial Vascular Access Committee (2007 -2010)

Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologist since 2006

Canadian Nursing Association since 2006

Volunteer work

Emergency Medical Technician - Manson Fire district 5, 2013

Children’s Ministry Leader – Real Life church Chelan 2013, Every Nation church Vancouver 2001 – 2012

Mobile Medical team member with Impact Nations serving in remote villages in India, 2008 and 2009

References

Cecilia Chow, BSc, BN M Michael Copland, MD, FRCPC

Operations leader Director of Kidney Services Medicine (Nephrology),

Providence Health Care, Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver Hospital, Vancouver, B.C

(604)806 – 9417 *****@****************.**.** 604-***-****, *******.*******@***.**

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Beverly S. La Mar, MSN, ARNP, NP-C

PO BOX 541, Manson, WA, 98831. H.509-***-****, C.509-***-****

Monam Ravaghi, MD Sarah Thomas,RN

Family Practice Physician, clinical preceptor Clinical Nurse Leader

Monam Medical Clinic, Vancouver, B.C. Providence Health Care, Vancouver, B.C

604-***-****, *******@*****.*** 604-***-****, *******@****************.**.**

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