Biography

I began my healthcare career as a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy during the waning years of the Vietnam war.  After completing a BSN at the University of Massachusetts, I began my professional nursing career in acute spinal cord injury.  As a clinician, I have since practiced in a wide range of clinical specialties in acute care, including general medicine, psychiatry, orthopedics, and oncology.

I have held various administrative and educator positions in academic health care settings, including at UVA Health, Fletcher Allen Healthcare, the University of Vermont, Meridian Health, the New Jersey State Nurses Association, and Texas Children’s Hospital, and at the director level in operational and education support leadership positions, including as a chief nursing officer, as director of nursing innovation and outcomes, and as a nursing professional development specialist.

I have consulted with healthcare executives and organizations across many areas, including clinical innovation, staffing and scheduling systems, care delivery model redesign, patient outcomes evaluation, recruitment and retention, patient and staff safety, quality improvement, and cultural competency development and and have extensive experience in academic and community, not-for-profit integrated healthcare systems within service lines, and matrix reporting structures.  As a consultant to individual nurses at all levels, I assist clients with decisions and issues related to career transitions, including: burnout, personal branding, job and career change strategies and searches, networking, starting a business, and retirement planning. I am an active member of the Virginia State Nurses Association and Sigma.