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Davenport, IA 52803 [e-mail]
EXPERIENCE
Blackhawk College, Moline, IL

*Adjunct faculty, Nursing Assistant program/Biology 2007-present

United Township High School—Area Career Center, East Moline, IL 1999-2015

*Coordinator, Health Occupations

*Theory Instructor, C.N.A. course/Medical Terminology

*Faculty Sponsor, UTHS Red Cross Club

United Township High School—Area Career Center, East Moline, IL 1993-1999

*Clinical Instructor, Nursing Fundamentals/C.N.A. course

Home Hemodialysis care partner (approximately 20 hours/week) 1980-2004

*use of Travenol, Baxter and Fresenius machines

*work with AV fistula, graft, and central catheter
East Moline Terrace (120 bed Intermediate Long Term Care facility) 1979-1982

*Administrator

East Moline Terrace (originally Lexington House, 120 bed LTC facility) 1970-1979

*Director of Nursing Services

East Moline State Hospital 1969-1970

*Staff nurse, Medical Surgical unit

Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, IL 1967-1968

*Student nurse/nursing assistant, Medical Surgical unit

EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Marycrest College, Davenport, IA 1965-1969

*B.S.N., major in nursing with concentration in biological sciences

Home Hemodialysis training, University of Iowa 1980

IDPH (“Train the Trainer”) CNA Educator Certification 1999

Genesis Medical Center, Hospice Training 2006
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION
Illinois Registered Nurse (License # 41131699)

Iowa Registered Nurse (License #051538)

Illinois Nursing Home Administrator (License #44002197—inactive status)

Certified Nurse Aide Educator, IDPH

IL Provisional Vocational Teaching Certificate (Certificate #1629391)

MEMBERSHIPS
ANNA (American Nephrology Nurses' Association)

Illinois Education Association/National Education Association

National Kidney Foundation, Council of Nephrology Nurses

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

RSN (Renal Support Network)

Friends of the Congressional Kidney Caucus, Washington, DC

Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients (formerly Kidney End of Life Coalition)

Mid Atlantic Renal Coalition, Richmond, VA, steering committee

Home Dialyzors United, Board of Directors
COMMITTEES AND AWARDS
Iowa Governor’s Volunteer Award 1992

Mississippi Valley Alzheimer’s Association, Auxiliary Co-chairman 1996-1997

Governor’s Advisory Committee on End Stage Renal Disease (Iowa) 1989-1991

Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2006

Renal Support Network (RSN) volunteer & weKAN advocacy committee 2006-2015

MARC (Network 5), Kidney End of Life Coalition committee (DC, VA, MD) 2007-

Community Foundation, Great River Bend, Partners in Nursing Committee 2008-2012

PEAK (Performance Excellence and Accountability in Kidney Care)

Technical/Curriculum Development Committee, Kidney Care Partners 2009-2011

Friends of the Congressional Kidney Caucus 2010-2012

Home Dialyzors United, Board of Directors and Public Policy Chairperson 2011-

National Summit on Home Dialysis Policy, Washington, DC (delegate) 2012

Alliance for Home Home Dialysis, work groups, Washington, DC 2012-

National Kidney Foundation, Kidney Living, editorial advisory board 2012-

ESRD Network 12, Learning and Action Network (LAN) 2013-2015

Kidney Health Initiative (ASN and FDA) 2013-

Kidney Health Initiative, Patient and Family Partnership Council 2015-

Health Editor, McClellan Heights Living, Davenport, IA 2015-

ESRD Network 10, Home Dialysis project 2016-

PUBLICATIONS
(with Bruce Bartlow, MD) “A Life, An Illness, A Death Well Lived,”

Nephrology News and Issues, Scottsdale, AZ, Pg 60-62 September 2005
“Letter to the editor,” Family Focus, National Kidney Foundation, NY, NY February 2006
“Perceptions: Images in a House of Mirrors,” Live and Give, Renal

Support Network, Glendale, CA (reprinted Kidney Times) Fall 2006
“Hope Sprinkled With Humor,” Kidney Times, Renal Support Network,

Glendale, CA (www.kidneytimes.com) Winter 2007
“If You Could Read My Mind, Love,” Kidney Times, Renal Support

Network, Glendale, CA (www.kidneytimes.com) May 2007
Contributor, Healing Through Times of Trouble, by Bruce Bartlow, MD,

and Joni Walton, RN, Publish America, Baltimore, MD July 2007

“It's a Miracle: weKAN Works the Halls of Congress,” Nephrology News

and Issues, Scottsdale, AZ, Pg 54 August 2007
“Health, Happiness and Hope Trains Patients to be Self-Motivated,”

Nephrology News and Issues, Scottsdale, AZ, Pg 41 August 2007
“Little Things Mean a Lot: Preventing Infection,” Live and Give, Renal

Support Network, Glendale, CA Fall 2007

“Just an Annoyance: Confronting the Dialysis Baggage,” Kidney Times,

Renal Support Network, Glendale, CA (www.kidneytimes.com) November 2007
“World Kidney Day: A Personal Perspective,” Nephrology News and

Issues, www.nephronline.com March 2008
“Medication Safety: Get in RIGHT,” Live and Give, Renal Support

Network, Glendale, CA Fall 2008

“The Shadow of Your Smile,” Kidney End of Life Coalition, Mid Atlantic

Renal Coalition, Midlothian, VA (www.kidneyeol.org) February 2009
“Kidney Dialysis at Home,” letter to the editor, Nursing 2009, Lippincott,

Williams and Wilkins, Ambler, PA, Pg. 8 March 2009

“Staying Home with Hemodialysis: a 25 Year Personal Retrospective,”

Dialysis and Transplantation, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, Pg 148 April 2009
“Easy Bruising,” Live and Give, Renal Support Network, Glendale, CA

(reprinted Kidney Times) May 2009
“Bundling and What is Important for Patients,” Nephrology News and

Issues, Scottsdale, AZ, Pg 11 December 2009
“Kidney Disease: Easing Pain at End of Life,” letter to the editor,

Nursing 2010, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Ambler, PA, Pg. 1 January 2010
“Beyond Advance Directives,” Kidney Times, Renal Support Network,

Glendale, CA Spring 2010

“Nix the Word Caregiver,” Dialysis and Transplantation, Wiley-Blackwell,

Hoboken, NJ May 2010

“CNNT Clinical Case Review: The Rest of the Story,” NKF RenaLink May 2011
“How to Climb Capitol Hill and Be An Advocate,” Nephrology News and Issues,

Scottsdale, AZ August 2011
“Employment: Barriers and Solutions,” Kidney Times and Live and Give,

Renal Support Network, Glendale, CA October 2011
Book Forward, Help, I Need Dialysis, John Agar, MD and Dori Schattel,

Medical Education Institute, Madison, WI February 2012

“Feeling Good, Looking Good,” Live and Give, Renal Support Network,

Glendale, CA Spring 2012

“What a Wonderful World: Coping with Chronic Kidney Failure,” Texas

ESRD Network, newsletter Summer 2012

“What's in a Word: Caregiver or Care Partner,” Nephrology Nursing

Journal, ANNA, Sewell, NJ February 2013
“Employment and Dialysis: Yes You Can,” Kidney Living, NKF Spring 2013

reprinted, Texas ESRD network newsletter June 2013

“Advance Care Planning: Exploding the Myths.” Live and Give, Renal

Support Network, Glendale, CA June 2014

“Asking the Right Questions about Home Dialysis,” Nephrology News

and Issues, Scottsdale, AZ March 2016
PRESENTATIONS
“Home Dialysis,” panel member, National Kidney Foundation Convention,

Des Moines, IA 1981
“Dialysis Issues,” hearings on dialysis, Iowa City, IA 1994
“Symposium on Pain Management and End of Life Care,” (Contributor)

Annual Dialysis Conference, San Francisco, CA February 2006
“Grieving and Bereavement,” (contributor), Symposium

on End of Life Care, Annual Dialysis Conference, Denver, CO February 2007

“CKD and the C.N.A.,” Annual C.N.A. Educator Conference, Springfield, IL April 2007

“ABCs of CKD,”

Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL November 2007

Senior Care 411, Davenport, IA March 2011
“The 5 Ws of CKD,”

Elderly Consortium, Davenport, IA February 2008

Optimist Clubs, Davenport, IA June 2009

Tri Lutheran Organization, Davenport, IA December 2009
Organizer, Panel moderator, RSN Patient Lifestyle Meeting, Iowa City, IA March 2008
“Care Giving: Signs of the Times,” RSN Patient Lifestyle Meeting, Iowa

City, IA March 2008

“What Home Hemodialysis is Really Like,”

Baxter Health Care, Waukegan, IL December 2008

National Kidney Foundation Conference, Madison WI November 2010


Organizer, moderator, RSN Patient Lifestyle Meeting, Davenport, IA July 2009
“The Real Life of a Care Partner,” RSN Patient Lifestyle Meeting,

Davenport, IA July 2009

“A Family Perspective on End of Life Care,”

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Conference, Pre Conference

Symposium on End of Life Issues in Dialysis Patients, Denver, CO September 2009

Heartland Kidney Network Conference, Kansas City, Mo January 2011
“Chronic Kidney Disease at End of Life,” Genesis VNA and Hospice,

Davenport, IA January 2010
MEDCAC (Medical Evidence Development Coverage Advisory March 2010

Committee) testimony, CMS, Baltimore, MD & January 2011

“CKD Patient Education: Up Close and Personal.” Abbott Pharmaceutical,

Waukegan, IL May 2010

“ESAs: A Patient and Family Perspective,” Affymax, Palo Alto, CA July 2010
“Everything Patients and Families Want You to Know, But Are Afraid to Say”

Heartland Kidney Network 12 Webinar, Kansas City, MO August 2010

National Kidney Foundation Conference, Madison, WI November 2010

Wisconsin Dialysis, Fitchburg, WI March 2011

Dialysis Center of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE April 2011
“Beyond Traditional Advance Directives: Reality and Humor,”

RSN Patient Lifestyle Meeting, Davenport, IA July 2010

NxStage Users Conference, Las Vegas, NV October 2010
“Help! A Patient's First Dialysis” Heartland Kidney Network meeting,

Kansas City, MO January 2011

“Supporting Patients & Families at End of Life: Bridging the Divide”

Annual Dialysis Conference, Phoenix, AZ February 2011

Pella Regional Health Care, Pella, IA April 2011

Mercy Medical Center Dialysis, Mason City, IA August 2011

ESRD Network 7 Conference, Tampa, FL November 2011
“Care Partner Support: Lessons From a Coffee Group”

Annual Dialysis Conference, Phoenix, AZ February 2011

Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, IA April 2011
“Renal Rehabilitation: Lessons from Cardiology”

NxStage Users, New Orleans, LA October 2011
“Legislation: All Politics is Local”

Iowa Council of Nephrology Nurses and Technicians, Davenport, IA October 2011
“Living the Good Life: A Care Partner Perspective,” AAKP conference,

Atlanta, GA August 2012

“Tools and Strategies to Initiate End of Life Discussions,” Annual Dialysis

Conference, Seattle, WA March 2013
“Living the Good Life with Kidney Disease,” Texas ESRD Network Meeting,

Dallas, TX October 2013

“Hot Topics for Patients and Care Partners,”

Heartland Kidney Conference, Kansas City, KS January 2014

Patient support group, Cleveland, OH June 2014
“Home Dialysis Options: Which One is Best for Me?” AAKP,

LasVegas, NV September 2014

“Advance Care Planning: Bridging the Divide,”

Indiana University/Home Dialyzors United conference, Indianapolis, IN October 2014

American Association of Kidney Patients, Nashville, TN September 2015
“A Curriculum for Educating LTC Staff: Caring for Dialysis Patients,”

Annual Dialysis Conference, New Orleans, LA February, 2015

“Living the Good Life: The Care Partner Perspective,” ESRD Network

10 Webinar, Indianapolis, IN April 2016

RESEARCH
“Effects of a Psychiatric Unit Open Door Policy on Patient Behavior and

Length of Hospitalization,” Marycrest College, Davenport, IA May 1969

Abstract, “The 'Rights' of Advance Care Planning Discussions: An Easy Tool for

InitiatingConversations” with Rene Bova-Collis, MSW, LCSW, Coalition for

Supportive Care of Kidney Patients, Richmond, VA, Annual Dialysis

Conference slide forum presentation, San Antonio, TX February 2012

Abstract, “Renal Rehabilitaion: “A 'Normal Life' Numerical Rating Scale,”

Annual Dialysis Conference, Seattle, WA March 2013