Janice Zima APRN, BC, FNP
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Qualifications
Bachelors and Master’s Degrees in Nursing. Current doctoral student. Supervisory/management experience.
Family Nurse Practitioner in the State of Virginia and California, ANCC Board Certification
Certified Wound Specialist, American Board of Wound Management
Experience
Virginia Hospital Center, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, Arlington, Virginia
January 2008 to present. Nurse Practitioner, parttime until 2011, currently fulltime.
Delivery of healthcare in the Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center both to the wound care and hyperbaric clinics
Emergency Medicine Associates, Germantown, Maryland
June 2006 to present. Nurse Practitioner, fulltime until Jan 2008, currently at part time status
Delivery of healthcare services through emergency medical practice at Virginia Hospital Center, Prince William Hospital, and Heathcote Emergency Services.
Simplicity Urgent Care, Arlington, VA
March 2012 to present. Nurse Practitioner, part time
Delivery of urgent need healthcare in a community setting.
Infectious Disease and Medicine Associates, Arlington, Virginia
January 2008 to January 2011. Nurse Practitioner
Delivery of healthcare to both medicine and infectious disease patients in an office setting. Caseload including patients with wounds and active infections, HIV, Hepatitis, and other communicable disease. Consultation at Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center at Virginia Hospital Center on parttime basis.
Arlington Free Clinic, Arlington, Virginia
September 2005 to October 2007. Nurse Practitioner
Delivery of healthcare services to general medical practice, serving indigent population
Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia
January 2000- December 2010. Case Manager, fulltime to June 2006, to part time status 2010
Collaboration, assessment, planning, facilitation, and advocacy for options/services to meet health care needs of hospital population, to promote quality cost-effective outcomes. Utilization review and coordination with insurance/payor sources, community resources
Visiting Nurse Association of Northern Virginia, Arlington, Virginia
1981-94. Liaison Nurse, Home Health Nurse
Provision, coordination and collaboration of services between VNA and health care/providers/institutions, primarily Arlington Hospital
Staff nurse, Arlington/Alexandria team with provision of intermittent home nursing service to homebound patients
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.
1978-81.Assistant Nursing Coordinator, Staff Nurse
Coordination and day-to-day supervision of medical surgical floor nursing staff, including staffing requirements, retention, orientation, evaluation
Camp Walden, Walden’s Pond, Maine
1978. Camp Nurse
Provision of health care services to general camp population
Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Baltimore, MD
1977-78.Staff Nurse
Direct patient care to medical surgical inpatient population
Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad. Bethesda, Maryland.
1976-77.Emergency Medical Technician
Emergency services with volunteer rescue company
Education
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Psychology Minor, May 1977
Marymount University, Arlington, VA
Master of Science, Family Nurse Practitioner, May 2005
Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
Doctoral Candidate, Nursing, December 2016
Professional Affiliations
Member, American College of Nurse Practitioners
Member, Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners
Member, Sigma Theta Tau, Governance Committee
Preceptor, graduate nursing students,
Summer 2005, spring 2007, 2008, summer 2014 Marymount University, Arlington, VA
Winter 2011, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Spring 2013, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fall 2014, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Spring 2015, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Licenses
Commonwealth of Virginia License to Prescribe 001*******
Commonwealth of Virginia License to Practice 002*******
State of California License to Practice NP95002861
ACLS Certification
PALS Certification
Wound Care Certification
Professional Affiliations
American Nurses Credentialing Center, Silver Spring, MD
Member, Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners, Richmond, VA
Member, American College of Nurse Practitioners, Arlington, VA
Member, Association for Management of Wound Care, Malvern, PA
Member, American Board of Wound Management, Washington, DC
Articles Submitted for Publication and in Preparation
Zima, J.V. (2014). Wound Care 101. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Regional Presentations
Zima, J.V. (2013, October) Practice Pearls. Regional Meeting of VCNP conducted at Marymount University, Arlington, VA.
Zima, J. V. (2013, September). The Outpatient Wound Healing Approach: It Takes a Village. Wound Care Symposium conducted at Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, VA.