I am a veteran of the United States Army with 20 years of Emergency nursing. I worked in different settings throughout my career from level 1 trauma in adult emergency care to 9 years of emergency pediatric care at Nemours Childrens Hospital. In Nemours I have served several roles such as core charge nurse, interim educator and I am currently serving as interim Manager for Emergency department and Short Stay unit. 

During my years at Nemours, I have developed several education initiatives for the Emergency Department including a 6-hour Triage class, Dine and learn monthly education, Sepsis awareness education, new hire treatment room and equipment orientation.  Monthly education boards topics for the emergency department with a multidisciplinary approach. 

I am an ENA and Sepsis Aliance Member, with TNCC, ENPC, NRP, HERT, Advanced 12 lead EKG, PALS, ACLS and BLS certifications. I am a certified emergency nurse CEN and Certified Emergency pediatric nurse CPEN. Recipient of six daisy award nominations, Nurse of the year for Saint cloud Hospital 2013, Nurse of the Year for Nemours Children's Hospital 2020, 
Daisy Leader of the year 2021, Tracy Jones Award 2022, Transformational Leader Award 2023. 

I am currently working on my master's in leadership and administration with Capella University.