Dan Clinton, Rn, Bsn Email and Phone Number

Dan tutors Anatomy, Physiology, Nursing, and the NCLEX-RN board exam. Dan's tutoring organically grew from a part-time side job to a full-time business owing to his incredible 96% NCLEX pass rate and his ability to help students who had failed up to four times previously finally succeed. Dan reviews content while highlighting testable points, improves study skills, provides students with his own exclusive written materials, and guides people to their goals with one-on-one personalized attention and care. Dan's business continues to rapidly expand through targeted advertising, amazing client testimonials, and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dan offers convenient, affordable, on-site CPR and First Aid Education throughout Massachusetts. Dan teaches the full spectrum of American Heart Association CPR and First Aid classes. He has taught more than 2,000 students since he first became an instructor at age 20 in 2004. Dan's training is unique in that he connects the psychomotor skills of CPR with the underlying physiologic processes so that students both understand how to perform CPR and why they are performing CPR. Plus, he's not really boring, and he can actually keep your attention! Dan also helps businesses establish Public Access Defibrillator programs which make life-saving Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) available for use in case of an emergency. The current out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest survival rate is about 6%. It is often too late by the time advanced care arrives. In settings where immediate bystander CPR is combined with defibrillation within 3 minutes survival rates as high as 74% have been documented in the literature. Prompt recognition of an emergency, quickly getting help on the way, and providing CPR and defibrillation gives someone the best chance of survival. Dan specializes in offering onsite CPR and First Aid training to businesses both small and large. Dan teaches classes onsite classes for groups as small as 4 which makes it easy for small businesses such as doctor's offices, dental clinics, preschools, and fitness studios to coordinate training for their staff at a time convenient for them at their location. Dan loves working with small businesses, and he also provides training for large organizations. Every June Dan trains up to 50 summer staff in a day for a local town and every August he offers three classes to train up to 75 teachers for a local school system. Dan offers dependable, quality, professional, convenient CPR and First Aid Training to businesses, and he makes it easy to coordinate and fun to attend.

From April until August, 2011, Dan helped students deepen their understanding of the human body by exclusively tutoring Anatomy & Physiology. Starting at the end of August, 2011, his position was expanded to include aiding students in their quest to master medication calculations and arterial blood gas interpretation. Dan runs open office hours where he works one-on-one or in small groups with students. Dan reviews the material, runs flashcards, quizzes students, animatedly gesticulates while speaking in a captivating manner, creates novel worksheets and study guides, and connects students with online study resources and practice exams. Students who are struggling with medication calculations can just come sit with Dan and keep doing practice questions for two hours until they get it. Students who struggle to memorize all of the vocabulary needed for Anatomy & Physiology can meet weekly with Dan just to talk through the lecture one more time while stopping to define all the terms and use the words in context in conversation. That kind of tutoring gives motivated students additional opportunities for success.

Taught 3rd and 4th graders at a wonderful after-school program in Natick that sadly closed because the Natick Public School system expanded their own after-school program. Dan coordinated child-centric, developmentally-appropriate activities that fostered creative expression, critical thinking, team building, intellectual curiosity, and a healthy lifestyle. He also fulfilled his childhood dream of getting paid to play dodgeball and RISK.

Responsibilities included: telephone triage, patient education, use of LMR electronic medical records, routine lab work, patient assessment, and administration of nebulizer treatments, parenteral antibiotics, and vaccinations. Developed cholesterol screening handouts, published two articles in the quarterly newsletter for parents, and coordinated the Synagis program to protect newborn and high-risk infants from Respiratory Synctial Virus (RSV).Hyde Park Pediatrics is a member of Affiliated Pediatric Practices (APP), a group of 18 independently-owned pediatric practices in Massachusetts that have banded together and partnered with insurance companies to develop and implement quality initiatives to improve the health of their patients. Dan was placed in charge of the Weight Management Program which sought to combat juvenile obesity by providing education on healthy eating to the families of children with a body mass index (BMI) above the 85 percentile. Under his stewardship, Hyde Park Pediatrics was the only practice within the APP network, and one of only two practices within the entire Partners Community Healthcare, Inc. (PCHI) community which includes more than 5,500 physicians, to meet the established quality measures.

Responsibilities included: telephone triage, patient education, use of NextGen electronic medical records, vital signs, and administration of nebulizer treatments, parenteral antibiotics, and vaccinations.

Responsibilities included: telephone triage, patient education, use of LMR electronic medical records, routine lab work, vital signs, and vaccine administration.

Ran open office hours and met weekly with low-income and educationally-disadvantaged students for whom Dan generated weekly progress reports to track their achievement. Dan was awarded a "You Make A Difference" certificate by the Dean of Academic Support Services in recognition of his contributions to the college as a tutor.

Developed and implemented an introductory theatre curriculum for boys and girls ages 5-12 at a general summer camp focusing on improvisational theatre while encouraging creative expression and developing confidence and interpersonal skills.

Worked on a variety of studies centering around the efficacy of a Calcitonin nasal spray in treating low bone density in children with inflammatory bowel disease. He was responsible for past medical chart review to determine study eligibility, documenting applicable past medical history, and processing raw data (Vit D, Ca, and PTH levels) utilizing Microsoft Excel. One of the studies was presented at the prestigious Digestive Disease Week (DDW) conference and another was later published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dan learned an awful lot in those few months working with the talented folks at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Children's Hospital Boston, and he spent a lot of time looking directly at 25-hydroxy Vitamin D levels which turned out to be of critical importance in his understanding of disease and of the world. 35.8% of children we studied with IBD had 25-hydroxy Vitamin D levels less than 15 ng/ml and 18.7% had levels less than 8 ng/ml! And this is back when levels of 15 were thought to be adequate. Dan believes levels of 30 ng/ml are needed just to prevent frank deficiency and levels of somewhere around 40-60 ng/ml are needed for optimal health. This was really cutting-edge research whose full implications are still unknown. Dan was very fortunate to work under Dr. Helen Pappa and the legendary Dr. Richard Grand. Dan believes Vitamin D deficiency plays a causative role in the development of autoimmune diseases such as IBD and that Vitamin D supplementation to achieve 25-hydroxy Vitamin D levels of at least 45 ng/ml should be a first-line treatment with monitoring of Vitamin D, calcium, and parathyroid hormone levels for IBD and many other conditions. Dan believes it important to fix an out-of-whack homeostatic variable prior to giving patients boatloads of individual prescription drugs to treat what may be various multisystem manifestations of Vitamin D deficiency.