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Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, MSN, RN
Adrianne E. Avillion earned her MS in nursing and a doctorate in adult education from Penn State University. She has over 40 years of experience in the field of nursing professional development and continuing education for nurses. She has published extensively and is a frequent presenter on the...
Bethany Derricott, RN, MSN, BSN
Bethany Derricott is a nurse educator, online instructor, trainer, and consultant. She is a graduate of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and the MSN program at Walden University. She has served on the nursing faculty at Chamberlain University, West Coast...
Cathy Melter began her nursing career in 1976 and served for over 40 years in adult health. She earned her BSN from California State University, MSN from Samual Merritt College, and WOCN certification from Emory University. Her professional memberships have included the Academy of Medical Surgical...
Cherie R. Rebar, PhD, MBA, RN, COI
Cherie R. Rebar has been a licensed RN since 1995. She holds ASN, MSN, MBA, and PhD degrees and post-master's certificates in Family Nurse Practitioner studies and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner studies. Dr. Rebar has taught since 2005 and is a tenured professor of nursing at...
Christina J. McDaniels, BSN, BA, RN, PCCN
Christina McDaniels has been a licensed RN since 2017. Prior to becoming a nurse, she worked for 10 years as an inpatient and outpatient pharmacy technician. She has bachelors degrees in both English and nursing as well as her Progressive Care Nursing Certification through the American Association...
Dana M. Cox, MA, BSN, RN, CIMI
Dana Cox has been an RN since 1983. She has worked as a nurse in prehospital, emergency, critical care, and pediatrics. Dana is also a credentialed ECSE (early childhood special education) teacher in California. She has provided early intervention services to infants and toddlers with special needs,...
Dennis Crean, BA, Staff Writer
Dennis Crean has served as managing editor for Wild Iris Medical Education since 2010 and helped develop hundreds of continuing education courses. He previously worked as an editor and designer for health, educational, and community-based organizations, including the Louisiana Office of Public...
Elise Gootherts, MA, BSN, RN, PHN
Elise Gootherts started her career as a social worker in 1979. Following her advocacy work at skilled nursing facilities, she earned a BSN from Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. As a nurse, Elise worked in emergency, public health, and surgery. After completing a master's degree in counseling...
Heidi J. Crean, DC, MSN, RN, CNL, RNC-OB
Heidi Crean is a nursing instructor in the RN program at Mendocino College in Ukiah, California, where she teaches fundamentals of nursing as well as obstetric and pediatric nursing. She also works as a per diem labor and delivery and postpartum nurse in the Family Birth Center and previously worked...
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education...
Kathryn Koehne, DNP, RN, AMB-BC, C-TNP
Kathryn Koehne, DNP, RN, AMB-BC, C-TNP, has dedicated over 30 years of nursing practice to telehealth and provided numerous continuing education offerings related to telephone triage. Board certified in ambulatory care nursing and certified in telephone nursing practice, Kathryn has participated in...
Leslie Crane has been an RN since 1973. She teaches in the RN, LVN, CNA, and home health aide programs at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. She graduated from Sonoma State University with an MSN and the University of Phoenix with an EdD in educational technology. Her clinical background is...
Loretta Ann Bostic, DNP, MBA, APRN, CRNA
Loretta Ann Bostic is an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) who specializes in psychiatric mental health and nurse anesthesia. She has been a registered nurse since 1983. She completed her nurse anesthesia education at Charleston Area Medical Center and her doctoral education and postdoctoral...
Marcy Caplin, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE
Marcy Caplin has been a nurse since 1983, with experience in coronary care, intensive care, cardiac surgery, and cardiac rehabilitation. She is currently an associate professor in nursing at Kent State University and has vast experience publishing, writing, and managing projects for nursing...
Mary Mitus is an advanced practice nurse, having earned her master's degree in 1988 from Grand Valley State University, Michigan. Mitus spent the first ten years of her career in hospital and home care administration. Since then she has focused on holistic health and computer-based learning. She is...
Maryam K. Mamou, BSN, RN, CWCN, CRRN
Maryam Mamou has extensive experience in wound care. She is a graduate of the wound ostomy and continence program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and is nationally certified in wound and continence care. She has worked in clinical settings including acute care rehabilitation, home health...
Michael Jay Katz earned his PhD and MD from Case Western Reserve University. He taught anatomy, physical diagnosis, and scientific writing in the medical school there for more than twenty-five years. He has written more than a dozen books and nearly 100 papers and essays. He has also served as an...
Monica A. Nathan, MSEd, BSN, RN, CNOR, CERT-IT
Monica Nathan served as a perioperative nurse and educator in the U.S. Army. Following her military retirement, she became an perioperative nurse and quality assurance coordinator for a freestanding ambulatory surgery center. She is a CERT team member and instructor and a California Disaster Service...
Nancy Evans is a health science writer and editor with more than three decades of experience in healthcare publishing. She served as senior editor at Mosby/Times Mirror, senior editor in the health sciences division of Addison-Wesley, and senior medical editor at Appleton & Lange. A breast cancer...
Persis Mary Hamilton, EdD, MSN, BSN, PHN, PMHN
Persis Hamilton has a rich background in nursing, nursing education, and writing. She has written 14 nursing textbooks for two major publishers. Now retired, Persis taught for more than 40 years in vocational, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, served as item writer for the...
Ryne Wilson earned his DNP degree specializing in Health Innovation and Leadership from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. His nursing career has been in the care of people with cancer, and he has extensive experience in both clinical care and leadership in cancer care programs. He is an...
Sheree L. Goldman, DNP, MSN, RN, WHNP
Sheree Goldman is an educator and writer with over four decades of clinical experience working with patients and families. Since 2000, her focus has been in forensics, coordinating a community-based program that conducts medical-legal examinations for victims and suspects of violence. She is a...
Sheryl M. Ness, MA, BSN, ADN, RN
Sheryl Ness has been an RN since 1985, working in the areas of transfusion medicine, endocrinology, neurology, and oncology. She achieved assistant professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and has a master's in transcultural nursing. She has worked for over a decade in the field...
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