• Faculty lead of the graduate nursing Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program (AGAC-NP) and wellness center nurse practitioner. • Collaborate with Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center to create an AGAC-NP program to help reduce the growing deficit of available hospital providers in Bangor and rural community hospitals. • Incorporate educational and certification policies into AGAC-NP program development from the two credentialing bodies, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. • Collaborate with the Office of Assessment to develop an AGAC-NP graduate curriculum that is consistent with the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Facilities (NONPH) standards. • Create an environment built upon the philosophy of student-centered learning.• Create an online platform encouraging student engagement and content curiosity while fostering open dialogue between peers and faculty. • Create assignments that promote resume development, such as attending CME courses related to safe opioid prescribing and the interpretation of diagnostic imaging. • Create assignments that empower the student to gain a better understanding of how others perceive and experience disease; examples include attending an AA or NA meeting and participating in end-of-life care discussions with the patient, provider, and family. • Prepare original PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, and case studies that are rooted in real-life clinical scenarios and human experience.• Incorporate research and ideas from the University of Massachusetts Ph.D. program in Health Policy and Population Health by creating assignments where students write to public officials advocating for the health and wellness of their community members. • Cultivate relationships with students and faculty that are built on empathy, knowledge, and respect.

• Provided personalized care to aesthetic, facial trauma, and reconstructive patients.• Cared for adult and pediatric patients undergoing cleft lip/palate surgery, craniosynostosis, mastectomy, maxopexy/augmentation, rhytidectomy, blepharoplasty, septorhinoplasty, abdominoplasty, and gynecomastia surgery.• Managed a philanthropic clinic – a community medical center, focused on providing reconstructive surgery to pediatric patients who are under or uninsured, with more than 30 cleft palate/lip and other facial congenital anomaly surgeries performed annually.• Implemented healthcare policies based on evidence-based research within the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery.• Attended biannual meetings held by the American Society of Plastic Surgical Nurses and the American Society for Aesthetic Surgery.

• Managed patients in a high paced coronary care unit who presented with STEMI/NSTEMI, heart failure, arrhythmias, peripheral vascular disease, and hypertensive emergency.• Consulted patients in the Emergency Room and triaged to appropriate level of care.• Provided full admission documentation including detailed history and physical, ordered and interpreted diagnostic testing, and formulated individualized treatment plans. • Provided continuity of patient care within a unit whose house staff rotated weekly.• Orchestrated teaching rounds with attending cardiologist, fellow, and residents.• Managed non-cardiac comorbidities including pneumonia, sepsis, chronic and acute renal disease, diabetes, acute and chronic pulmonary disease, mental illness, and autoimmune diseases.

Medical-surgical clinical nursing instructor