Jack Stem Email & Phone Number

I am a retired health care professional with over 25 years experience in emergency room nursing, nurse anesthesia (CRNA), and pain management consulting. Currently, I am the chair of the Ohio State Association of Nurse Anesthetists Peer Advocacy for Practitioner Wellness Committee and Senior Peer Advisor. I am a moderator for the private web community, Anesthetists In Recovery (AIR). I am also founder and CEO of my consulting company, Peer Advocacy for Impaired Nurses, LLC, in Cincinnati, Ohio. I provide educational seminars for nurses, anesthesia providers, groups, departments, and training programs in Ohio and private corporations, church groups and schools (high school and elementary). I am a counselor at Northland Interventions in Milford, Ohio, just east of Cincinnati, facilitating the Suboxone Intensive Outpatient Group.As a Peer Mentor, I assist nurses struggling with recovery or relapse. By providing individual consulting, the client and I can develop a recovery plan to assist them in achieving long term recovery.Addiction and chemical abuse (this includes alcohol...the single most abused drug) is a leading cause of health problems including, but not limited to auto accidents, falls, domestic violence, liver disease, gastrointestinal disease, cardiac disease, pancreatitis, certain cancers, assault and murder. It's the leading health crisis in this country, and yet it is poorly understood, poorly treated - if at all, and health care insurance refuses to pay for much of the treatment, even though it is a chronic, progressive disease.My main goal is to provide education to health care professionals as well as the public about the disease of addiction. Prevention is the best way to manage this disease, but our culture refuses to accept this as a DISEASE, despite the scientific evidence! Until attitudes change, this disease will continue to ruin lives, families, businesses and our society. Education is the key to sparking change in attitude.Specialties: Motivational and educational seminars, consultation with families of suspected addicts to assist in intervention, consulting with departments of nursing and anesthesia, nurse and nurse anesthesia training programs, and hospitals to develop policies and procedures to deal with employees who are afflicted with the disease of addiction. Assist nurses going through board investigations and legal proceedings, assisting them in maintaining focus on recovery.

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