Education

• BSN from Niagara University in Niagara, NY.
• MSN in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

Professional Memberships

• American Nurses Association
• Texas Nurses Association
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing
• National Nursing Staff Development Organization

Certifications

• Nursing Staff Development and Continuing Education, American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Regional Faculty, American Heart Association

Honors

• Inducted Member Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society for Nursing
• Employee of the Quarter, University Health System, Second Quarter, 1999
• Employee of the Year, Professional Category, University Health System, 2000
• Nurse Imagemaker Award presented by UTHSC School of Nursing, May 2002
• Nurseweek Magazine Nursing Excellence Award, November 2002
• National Nursing Staff Development Organization Award for Excellence in Enhancing Learners Competence, presented July 2003
  

She has worked as a medical surgical nurse and psychiatric/substance abuse nurse in Buffalo, NY and Richmond, VA. She has been an assistant administrator / director of nursing at a psychiatric inpatient hospital in Fort Walton Beach, Fl. She has worked for the University Health System in San Antonio, Texas for 12 years as an educator in the department of continuing education for the UHS system.

She has served as an adjunct faculty to SAC school of nursing since Fall 2002 and to the UT Health Science Center School of Nursing since Spring 2003.

Course: RNSG1160

Course: RNSG1262