RN Nursing Instructor, Athens Technical College
Teach RNSG 1910 (Fundamentals) and RNSG 1920 (Adult Health) to ADN students utilizing a variety of methods, including lecture, active learning activities, skills check-off and clinical simulations with 3G mannequin
Subjects taught: diabetes management, neurocognitive disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, hearing/vision disorders, sepsis, gastrointestinal disorders, genitourinary disorders, hypertension management, kidney and liver disease management
Clinical instruction at Piedmont Athens Regional
Assist with curriculum development via monthly faculty meetings
Observe and evaluate student outcomes through assignments, projects, examinations and clinical simulation
Hospital Medicine Nurse Practitioner, Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital
Managing acute care patients in the ER, ICU and floor
Performing admissions, consults and discharges daily
Diagnosing, ordering, supervising and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments
Ridgeview Institute, Monroe, Nurse Practitioner
Primary care medical management for inpatient psychiatric patients aged 12 - geriatric
Diabetes and thyroid management
Hypertension management
Pain management
Cholesterol management
Diagnosing, ordering, supervising and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescribing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments
Chest x-rays, musculoskeletal x-rays, ECG
CBC, CMP, A1c, lipid panel, TSH studies, coagulation studies