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QUALIFICATIONS
Over 32 years of experience in various areas of nursing, caring for patients across the continuum of life. Over 17 years of experience as an RN, BSN working in inpatient obstetrics and home care hospice. As an FNP, I have worked in Family Practice, and Urgent Care and currently own and operate a medical house call practice and telehealth practice in Breckenridge, CO.
EDUCATION
1987-1989 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona
6/88-8/88 Scottsdale Community College Scottsdale, Arizona
6/89-8/89 Phoenix Community College Phoenix, Arizona
1989 – 1992 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Degree Earned – BSN/Nursing
2008 – 2011 UCCS-Beth El College of Nursing Colorado Springs, Colorado
Degree Earned – MSN/Family Nurse Practitioner
2021 – 2022 Frontier Nursing University Clearfield, Kentucky
Degree Earned – Doctorate in Nursing Practice
LICENSURE
8/2025 – 09/2027
Arizona State Certified Nurse Practitioner License
9/2025 – 2/2028
Arizona DEA license
6/1996 – 09/2027
Colorado State Nursing License
6/2011 – 09/2027
Colorado State Nurse Practitioner APN License
6/2011 – 09/2027
Colorado State Nurse Practitioner RXN License
2/2024 – 2/2027
Colorado DEA license
8/2024 – 8/2026
Florida State Telehealth APRN License
9/2024 – 07/2027
Texas State APRN license
MEMBERSHIP
North American Menopause Society
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Sigma Theta Tau
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
11/2016-current High Altitude Mobile Physicians Breckenridge, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Provide acute medical care as would be treated in an urgent care, in-home or temporary location of residence. The majority of patients are visitors from out of town. In 9/2019, the business was turned over to me by David Gray, MD, and I am currently the sole owner. I manage three independent contractors working for the company. Precept nurse practitioners and medical students.
07/2024-current Summit Hormone Renewal Breckenridge, Colorado/telehealth
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Provide comprehensive, expert perimenopause and menopause care via telehealth in Colorado, Arizona, Texas and Florida. Menopause Society Certified Practitioner
2017-2018 Poipu Mobile Medical Kauai, Hawaii
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Provided acute medical care coverage for mobile urgent care, covering for the owner while he was out of town.
2016 -2017 Spectrum Health Care (Army Premier After Hours Urgent Care) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-PRN -Provided assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and education to patients with acute medical conditions for active duty and military dependents. Duties included evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of acute medical conditions.
2016 Centura Urgent Care Colorado Springs, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-PRN -Provided assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and education to patients with acute medical conditions in a busy urgent care. Duties included ordering and interpreting labs and imagining diagnostics and procedures such as suturing, foreign body removal, and I & D.
6/2014-8/2016 Health Care Clinic at Walgreens Colorado Springs, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Duties included providing acute medical assessment and treatment of common conditions, some treatment of chronic conditions, vaccinations, preventative education, and physicals. Precepted nurse practitioner students.
9/2012-6/2014 Memorial Health Urgent Care (now UC Health) Colorado Springs, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Provided assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and education to patients with acute medical conditions in a busy urgent care. Duties included ordering and interpreting labs and imagining diagnostics and procedures such as suturing, foreign body removal, and I & D.
11/2011-8/2012 Spectrum Health Care (Air Force Academy Family Practice) AFA, Colorado
Family Nurse Practitioner
-Provided primary care assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and education to active duty and retired veterans and their dependents. Conditions treated included acute care as well as management of chronic diseases.
1/2004-9/2011 Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care Colorado Springs, Colorado
Registered Nurse
-Provided personal care to terminally ill patients in their homes, long-term care facilities, and assisted living facilities. Duties include responding to emergent patient needs, such as pain crises, admission assessments, falls, injuries, discomfort issues, family/patient support, and deaths.
6/1996-12/2003 Penrose Hospital Birthing Center Colorado Springs, Colorado
Clinical RN – Level II Labor and Delivery
-Duties included providing nursing care to high and low-risk antepartum, labor patients, postpartum patients, and newborns. Managing the triage unit consisted of assessing new patients in labor or other health issues.
3/1993-6/1996 Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Phoenix, Arizona
Clinical RN – Level III Labor and Delivery
-Provided nursing care to high-risk antepartum and labor patients, including pregnant women in critical status. Cared for low-risk labor patients, which included labor, assisting with delivery and recovery of mother and baby. Assessed patients in the OB triage unit. Circulated and recovered patients undergoing a Cesarean Section, Hysterectomy, D&C, and antepartum fetal procedures/surgeries.
CERTIFICATIONS HELD
6/2011 –5/2026 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification- Family Nurse Practitioner #F0611734
10/2024 – 12/2027 Menopause Society Certified Practitioner
ACLS-exp 6/2026
PALS-exp 6/2026
BLS-exp 6/2026
VOLUNTEERING
2/2015 – Medical mission to Haiti through CHAMPs (Connecting Hope and Medicine to People in Haiti)
2/2016 – Medical mission to Haiti through CHAMPs (Connecting Hope and Medicine to People in Haiti)
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