I began the first 15 yrs of my career as a nurse at the Margaret Mary Community Hospital in Batesville, IN in Geriatric long term care, then on to Medical Surgical and ICU floors. I taught undergraduate nursing students in an accelerated BSN program at Northern Ky University while in Graduate School. I performed my Nurse Practitioner residency at St. Elizabeth , Florence, Ky in the ER as well as Rising Sun Healthcare providing primary care . Since graduating with my Masters from Northern Ky