• Senior staff nurse practitioner with largest geriatric practice in Tennessee.• Coordinate and provide primary care for varied senior population living in multiple independent and assisted-living facilities.• Direct the medical care for senior population residing in various skilled nursing and long-term care facilities.• Collaborate with therapy and support staff to develop rehabilitative plans for patients and residents to allow for facility discharge while minimizing the readmission rate for that population.• Work with families and social services to coordinate appropriate patient placements based upon patient needs as well as patient prognoses.• Advise patients and families regarding quality of life issues, including options such as palliative care and/or hospice.• Educate staff, patients, families and other caregivers regarding best practices for continuing care.

Summer 2003-04 Integration of Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Nursing II Spring 2003-04 Integration of Theory and Clinical Aspects of Nursing I Spring 2004 Strategies for Improving Self Care Fall 2002 Fundamentals of Clinical Practice I PRESENTATIONS Invited: April 2003 “Urinary Incontinence in the Geriatric Patient” Part of Didactic Series: Principles of Older Adult Health I

• Coordinated and provided onsite primary care for a population of 250+ residents of a continuing care residential community.• Provided on-call coverage for a panel of 200+ primary care and 50+ long term care residents.• Provided staff, patient, family and caregiver education.

• Provided primary care to long term care population of 80+ patients.• Provided on-call coverage for a panel of 700+ long term care patients.• Provided staff, patient, family and caregiver education.

• Provided primary care to a population of 100+ long term care residents.• Provided short term care to a small panel of sub-acute rehabilitative patients.• Provided on-call coverage for a panel of 800+ long term care patients. • Provided staff, patient, family and caregiver education.