My professional goal is to prevent infections and communicable disease transmission and thus improve patient outcomes in the healthcare system. Having spent the early years of my career in nursing, and then continuing my education in Public Health; my focus is now on the prevention of infection through education, epidemiological investigation, data collection and analysis and process and practice changes. I am interested in growing my private consulting business in many areas, as healthcare changes and evolves. I believe that the fast pace at which changes have occurred in healthcare has left some settings trying to catch up and maintain excellence in care. I am well equipped to assist in areas of: education, policy and program development, data collection, and monitoring for effective and sustained change. I am well versed and have been using the CDC NHSN database for many years.