Dr. Linda N. Coakley, FNP - BC

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Springfield, TN 37172

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National Certification: ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner

AHA Certification: BLS

University Teaching Experience: I am an experienced nursing educator of both graduate & undergraduate nursing students including family nurse practitioner students.

Global & Multicultural Experience: I provided access to Health Care for remote population groups through Medical Missions to 9 countries.

FNP Health Care Provider Experience: I served 20 years in a homeless shelter clinic.

Military experience: I flew & trained 9 years as an Air Force Flight Nurse Captain with the USAF Air Guard & USAF Reserves.

Life Flight Nursing Experience: I flew 2 years with the Life Flight program in Houston.

Management Experience: I worked as State of TN Public Health Nurse Supervisor & Nurse Consultant, North Detroit General Hospital Assistant Director Nursing, Nursing Supervisor, & Head Nurse of the ER.

Emergency Nursing Experience: I provided emergency care for 11 years in major trauma centers & pediatric emergency.

Critical Care Nursing Experience: I provided critical care for medical & surgical patients of all ages for 1 year in the Memphis Baptist ICU & 2 years in Memorial Hermann’s PAR.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Education in Leadership & Professional Practices – Trevecca Nazarene University 2006

Master of Science in Nursing – Vanderbilt University 1993

Master of Science in Health and Human Services – University of Detroit 1983

Bachelor of Science in Nursing – University of Tennessee, Memphis 1971

United States Air Force School of Aerospace Nursing 1993

Master of Religious Education 38 hours – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary 1972-1974

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

South University 2021 – Current

Adjunct Faculty Family Nurse Practitioner Program

Western Kentucky University 2000 - 2015

Tenured Assistant Professor Nursing

Online instructor Advanced Concepts of Pathophysiology

WKU Tenured Assistant Professor Nursing

Primary Care Adult MSN Program

Primary Care Children & Adolescents MSN Program

Primary Care Adult MSN Clinical Group

Primary Care Children & Adolescents MSN Clinical Group

Primary Care Internship MSN Program

Advanced Health Assessment, MSN Clinical Group

Advanced Concepts of Pathophysiology MSN Program

Advanced Issues in Professional Nursing MSN Program

Health Assessment BSN Program

Health Assessment BSN Clinical Laboratory and Clinical Practice

Community Health BSN Program

Professional Issues Post-RN Program

Summer 2001 Nursing 317 North India Medical Project

Committees

Graduate Program Committee

Post-RN Committee

Continuing Education Committee

Faculty Senate

Belmont University Fall 1997

Clinical instructor medical-surgical nursing BSN Program

Veterans’ Hospital and simulation learning lab

Tennessee State University 1993 - 1997

Assistant Professor Nursing

Family Nurse Practitioner Clinical Courses MSN Program

Family Health & Nursing Assessment Lab

Advanced Family Nursing I

Advanced Family Nursing II

Health Assessment BSN Program

Community Health Nursing BSN Program

NURSE PRACTITIONER EXPERIENCE

Nashville Rescue Mission Clinics: Nurse Practitioner-volunteer at the Nashville Rescue Mission Clinic 1993 – Fall 2009 supervised by Dr. William Skinner and Dr. Thomas Patten

ProHealth Rosa Parks Community Clinic (Serving the homeless population and the Rosa Parks community) Fall 2011 – March 2012

Inspiration: The reason I became a nurse practitioner was to work with the homeless. I became burdened to help them during the years I worked downtown at the Bureau of Medicaid from 19891990. The homeless were everywhere downtown, staggering across the streets, sleeping in doorways, or sitting on sidewalks. One homeless man had a generalized seizure and fell just in front of me one day. My heart was moved with compassion and I went to the Nashville Rescue Mission and began volunteer service in the clinic there. I entered the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Program at Vanderbilt to become an FNP to better serve the homeless. While working on the MSN, I volunteered as an RN in the clinics and at the shelter teaching health promotion.

After graduation in 1993 I began practice as an FNP and provided primary health care for homeless men in the main building during the first years at the mission. Later I worked in the clinic with homeless women and children in the Family Life Center. Referrals were made as appropriate for each individual. Spiritual care was a focus in this faith-based medical ministry.

The reason for leaving this practice that spanned close to 20 years was that the clinic closed for renovation in August, 2009. We set up a temporary clinic in a room at the Hope Center but later that also was closed. The decision was made in early 2010 that the mission-run clinic would not reopen.

Pro-Health contracted to provide full-time clinical services.

Clinical Instructor:

TSU and WKU Clinical Courses

Site visits with nurse practitioner students in Tennessee and Kentucky hospitals and clinics

Free in-home clinic supervised by Dr. Carol Cantrell during the years of work on doctorate October 2003- 2006 Primary care for those with no health insurance

GLOBAL OUTREACH MEDICAL TEAMS

Completed medical missions to third world countries, providing access to medical care for populations in remote villages of the world with little access to care.

Guatemala - 2017

China – September 2012 May 2009 October 2007

India – 2001

Haiti – March 2010

Mauritania, Africa – 2005

Paraguay – August 2002

North India - 2001

Costa Rica - September 1998

Venezuela - July 1997

Temuco Chile - 1994

ADMINISTRATIVE/MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

Bureau of Medicaid State of Tennessee

Supervisor & Public Health Nurse Consultant

Office of Surveillance & Utilization Review 1989-90

Supervised review of recipient claims; reviewed provider claims for justification of services

& for quality assurance; served on the peer review committee for Medicaid medical providers & on the EPSDT committee; reviewed family nurse practitioner claims for utilization review & quality assurance; performed clinical site visits to Medicaid providers

North Detroit General Hospital Assistant Director of Nurses ’83-84

Supervisor, Evening shift 1982-83

Head Nurse, Emergency Dept. 1980-81

Management positions in a 325-bed inner-city hospital; scheduled nursing staff for evening shift; supervised & evaluated patient care, completed staff performance evaluations, & served on the policy & procedure committee of the hospital.

Military

Immediate Mobilization Augmentee (IMA), Captain, United States Air Force 1997 - 2000 Air Force Reserve Center Denver

Air Force Flight Nurse Tennessee Air National Guard 1992-1996

Captain, 118th Airlift Wing, Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES)

Army National Guard, Jackson Barracks, New Orleans

1st Lieutenant Army Nurse 1973-74

RN Positions

Alive Hospice of Nashville 1991-92

Registered Nurse on-call, part-time position while working on MSN at Vanderbilt

Provided skilled nursing care & supportive care to hospice patients & their families

Bureau of Medicaid June 1989- August 1990 Public Health Nurse Consultant

Supervisor Quality Assurance & Utilization Review

Responsible for review of Medicaid physician & NP providers claims for fraud or abuse Visited clinics & nursing homes to interview providers and review medical records for justification of billing practices.

American Red Cross, Nashville, TN 1988-89 School Screening Coordinator:

Coordinated school screenings for the Metro School System

Screened 14,000 students for vision, hearing, scoliosis & blood pressure.

Trained volunteers to help conduct the screenings

Served on Metro-Davidson County Task Force for School Health

Lentz Health Department, Nashville, TN 1987

Public Health Nurse: Visited patients in their home who required skilled nursing care Vanderbilt Hospital ER 1986

Part-time RN Provided acute care interventions for medical & surgical emergencies

McFarland Hospital, Lebanon, TN 1985-1986

PRN nurse ER & Recovery Provided acute care for emergency

post op patients Taught CPR classes

North Detroit General Hospital 1980-1984

Assistant Director Nurses, Supervisor, & Head Nurse Positions

Completed staffing schedules for all nursing units on the evening shifts

Completed evaluations for nursing staff

Supervised care of patients, making rounds & reporting to the Director of Nursing

Served on hospital planning and policy committees

Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, MI ‘78-80.

Staff RN Emergency Room. Emergency care for pediatrics & adults in this inner-city major trauma center, rotating charge nurse position

Mount Sinai Hospital, Detroit, MI. 1977-78

Staff RN, Emergency Room. Provided emergency care for major & minor medical patients in this large inner-city hospital, rotating charge position

Hermann Hospital, Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center. 1975-77

Life Flight Nurse: Transported acutely ill and injured patients of all ages to the medical center in Houston; flew to the scene of accidents & injuries, provided advanced life support at the scene & en route. This was the 5th such ambulance in the country at that time, the 1st Life Flight. I was one of 5 first flight nurses for the service.

Emergency Room: Staff RN in the emergency room when not on flight duty.

Recovery Room: PAR for adult and pediatric major & minor surgical patients, including open heart, neurosurgical, & multiple trauma surgical patients

Charity Hospital of New Orleans 1972-74, Tulane & LSU Teaching Hospital at that time

Emergency Room Staff Nurse, Pediatric &Accident Emergency Rooms. Provided emergency care to major trauma victims in the accident room and to all medical emergencies for children in Pediatric Emergency, rotated charge position in this the second oldest hospital in the nation, serving 600,000 outpatients, yr.

Baptist Hospital, Memphis, TN 1971-72

Intensive Care Unit Staff RN, Critical care of major surgical and medical patients in this the largest private hospital in the country at that time. Responsible for critical care of 4-5 patients in this 36-bed ICU, rotated charge position.

ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship

CURRENT AND PAST CERTIFICATIONS

FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER ANCC - Current

AHA BLS Provider - Current

CERTIFIED EMERGENCY NURSE CERTIFIED CRITICAL CARE NURSE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR

ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT PROVIDER BASIC LIFE SUPPORT INSTRUCTOR

BASIC LIFE SUPPORT PROVIDER

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Coakley, Linda N. Angel, Blessing, Crippled, the ABCs of One Child’s Story. February 2018. www.amazon.com

Preventable birth defects. Journal of Christian Nursing. July 2007; 24 (3): 126-134.

Trauma to the heart. Journal of Emergency Nursing. November/December 1981: 7(6).

Teaching Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Factors Related to Healthy Decision Making in Adolescents.

Tennessee Baptist Nursing Fellowship Annual State Meeting June 2008

Kappa Theta Chapter Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Western Kentucky University Annual Research Day, March 2007

Dissertation Symposium June 2006 Trevecca Nazarene University

Spirituality and Nursing Theory

Baptist Nursing Fellowship 2000

Centro Medico Bautista Hospital Universidad (Nursing School) Asuncion Paraguay 2002

AWARDS

Tennessee State University MSN Class of 1997 Recognition Award

Kentucky Nurses Association Nursing Excellence Award 2007

TN Air National Guard 118th AES Community Service Commendation Certificate

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Teaching CPR & health promotion classes Nashville Rescue Mission Hope Center 2009 – 2013

Samaritan’s Purse volunteer Naples, FL Horry, SC hurricanes and Nashville TN tornado

Habitat for Humanity volunteer 2012 -2013

Coordinated Youth Sports Physicals for 200 – 400 inner city underprivileged youth 1996

Foster Parent – State of Tennessee 1994 – 2003

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