Duty Assignments:   Clinical Staff Nurse, Cardio-Thoracic Step-down Unit, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; Clinical Staff Nurse, Burn Intensive Care Unit, Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, TX; Clinical Staff Nurse, Medical /Surgical Ward, Joint Task Force Bravo, Honduras; Clinical Nurse OIC, Special Care Unit/Ambulatory Procedure Unit/Post Anesthesia Care Unit, 67th Combat Support Hospital, Wurzburg, Germany; Clinical Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, 67th Combat Support Hospital, Taszar, Hungary; Chief Nurse, 168th Medical Battalion, B Company, Seoul, Korea; Clinical Nurse OIC, Intensive Care Unit, Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Deputy Director, Critical Care/Emergency Nursing Courses, AMEDD Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Clinical Nurse OIC, Intensive Care Unit, 228th Combat Support Hospital, Mosul, Iraq; Clinical Nurse OIC, Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Chief, Evening/Night Supervisor and Nursing Director, Medicine Nursing Services, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii; Deputy Commander for Nursing and Patient Support Services, McDonald Army Health Center, Fort Eustis, Virginia; Chief of Inspections Branch, Medical Command Inspector General and Senior Staff Officer, Clinical Performance Assurance Directorate, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Deputy Commander for Nursing, Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, California, and Deputy Commander Inpatient Services, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC.  

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Organization/Positions/Assignments in which you were a FIRST:    Chief Nurse for the world’s first carbonneutral hospital, Weed Army Community Hospital, Fort Irwin, CA; achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum Certification.  

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Deployments: Iraq and Bosnia

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Awards: :  Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medals, Army Commendation Medals, Joint Service Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Army Overseas Service Ribbon, and the NATO Medal. Holds the Aircrew Badge, Order of Military Medical Merit, and Order of the Combat Spur.  

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Other Professional Affiliations: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma), American Nurses Association/Virginia Nurses Association, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc., Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA), Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), American Association of University Women (AAUW), and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc (Life Member)