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10/99-present              Nurse Midwife, Practice Owner

                                   Women’s Health Options Network                                    

                                   Pittsburgh, PA

                                   Solo private, full scope CNM practice. All aspects of practice establishment, development and administration.  Private physician collaboration. Deliveries primarily at UPMC Shadyside, a level II community hospital.  Contract agency for Family Health Council, Inc., a non profit family planning agency.

 

Fall/2002                     Academic Faculty (part time)

                                    Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

                                    Classroom instruction of BSN RN students in obstetric nursing. 4 hours of lecture per week covering entire OB cirruclum.

Spring/2001 

Fall/2001                    Clinical Faculty (part time)

                                    Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA

                                    Clinical instruction of RN students in obstetric nursing at Monongahela Valley Hospital. . Evaluation of written assignments; on site didactic teaching activities and group discussions.

 

Fall/2000 

Fall/ 2001                    Clinical Faculty (part time)

                                    Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

                                     Clinical instruction of BSN RN students in obstetric nursing at Magee Women’s Hospital. Evaluation of written assignments; on site didactic teaching activities and group discussions.

 

Fall/2000                      Clinical Faculty (part time)

                                    Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA

                                    Clinical instruction of RN students in medical- surgical nursing at Jefferson Memorial Hospital.  Evaluation of written assignments; on site didactic teaching activities and group discussions.

 

3/99-11/99                    Nurse Midwife

                                  Premier Medical Associates, PC 400 Penn Center Boulevard-Suite 100

                                  400 Penn Center Boulevard-Suite 100

                                  Pittsburgh, PA 15235 412/825-0881

Full scope midwifery, two birth sites, large gyne/ HRT population.  Integrated, private practice model. Practice closed due to serious illness.

 

11/97-3/99                    Nurse Midwife

                                  WomenCare/FamilyCare

                                  301-6 Great Teays Boulevard

                                  Scott Depot, WV 25560 (304) 757-6999

Full scope midwifery. CNM managed freestanding birth center and family planning clinic. Private practice model, private OB/GYN back up.

                                       * QA & marketing

                                       * Birth Center Design & Management

 

12/95-11/97                 Nurse Midwife

                                   Women & Children’s Hospital

                                   800 Pennsylvania Avenue

                                   Charleston, WV 25302 (304) 348-2595

Teaching center based practice. Medical residents and MFM faculty back up. Internal transfer to freestanding birth center when purchased by hospital.

 *QA & marketing

 

5/95-9/95                      Nurse Midwife

                                   Parkside Women’s Center (formerly)

                                   Galen Health Group

                                   P.O. Box 3408

                                   Youngstown, OH 44513 (330) 792-4646

Full scope, large physician group practice.

 *Developed RN orientation for labor & delivery at Youngstown Osteopathic  Hospital.

 

10/89-3/95                    Registered Nurse

                                  MetroHealth Medical Center

                                  2500 MetroHealth Drive

                                  Cleveland, OH 44109 (216) 778-7800

                                         Staff RN, Labor & Delivery. Level III teaching/referral center.

                                           * Wrote hospital standard of care protocol for labor support

                                           * Developed training program for IFM/IUPC placement for RN’s.

                                           * Resolve Through Sharing (perinatal loss) counselor

                                           *Taught Newborn Physical Assessment (staff development)

                                           * Excellence in Family Centered Care Award nominee 1992 & 1993.

 

12/87-8/89                    Registered Nurse

                                  Akron City Hospital

                                  525 East Market Street

                                  Akron, OH 44309 (330) 375-3000

Staff RN, Labor & Delivery. Level III teaching/referral center.

 

1983                             Counselor

                                     Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

                                     Columbus, OH

                                     Crisis and intake counseling , residential care of battered women and their children,

                                     supervision of volunteers. Trained in the Child Assault Prevention Program.

 

11/80-3/81                     Group Home Attendant

                                       Association for the Developmentally Disabled

                                      Columbus, OH

                                       Residential and Day Care supervision of adults with mental retardation.

 

6/87- 3/79                      House Manager

                                       Huckleberry House

                                       Columbus, OH

                                       Teen run away counseling center and shelter. Crisis counseling with teen runaways and their parents. Supervision of volunteers, community outreach. 

 

4/78-3/79                       Evening Attendant

                                       Spencer  Halfway House

                                       Newark, OH

                                       Residential supervision, crisis counseling, emotional support to recovering alcoholics.

 

7/75-6/76                       Volunteer Crisis Counselor/Shift Leader

                                       Crisis Center/Drug Forum, Newark, OH     

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