Ruth T. Hutton, B.A., R.N., HNC
486 Christian Springs Road
Amherst , VA. 24521
(434) 946-0799
MILLER-MOTTE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
CREEKSIDE DRIVE
OCTOBER 2003 – PRESENT
LYNCHBURG , VA
- Clinical Pathology for Massage Instructor
- Medical Law and Ethics for Medical Assisting Instructor
- Instructor for four sections of Anatomy and Physiology I & II to combined classes of medical program students and massage therapy students.
- Phlebotomy Theory Instructor
- Student Advocate
- Participate in preparing and presenting faculty inservice trainings
COMFORT CARE HOME HEALTH
CHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL
MARCH 2003 – OCTOBER 2003
CHESAPEAKE , VA
- Home Health Nurse
- Provided and directed individualized skilled nursing care in a community setting
- Case Management, coordinating with physicians, family, and other care givers
- Identified patients appropriate for palliative care and hospice care.
- OASIS documentation per Medicare regulation
- Mentor of student nurses and summer interns
- HomMed monitor corporate training
- Coordinated care of HomMed monitor patients and trained and in-serviced staff on the monitor system.
MEDICAL CAREERS INSTITUTE
5501 GREENWICH ROAD
MARCH 2001-DECEMBER 2002
VIRGINIA BEACH , VA
- Clinical medical/surgical instructor for junior LPN students until September 2001
- Classroom and clinical instructor for freshman LPN students, teaching:
- Nursing Skills/Laboratory
- Nursing Documentation and Nursing Process
- Critical Thinking
- Nursing Theory
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacology Math
- Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
CHESAPEAKE CARE, FREE CLINIC
2145 S. MILITARY HIGHWAY
JUNE 1999- MAY 2001
CHESAPEAKE, VA
- Clinical Coordinator for non-profit, community clinic
- Recruit, orient, and schedule the volunteer nurses
- Provide nursing care in clinics without coverage
- Designed volunteer orientation manual
- Ordering of medical supplies
- Case Manager
- Quality Control
- Patient educator on diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery, and heart disease management and prevention.
- Managed, scheduled, and ran the Cardiology Clinic.
BAY LAKE RETIREMENT AND ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITY
4225 SHORE DRIVE
FEBRUARY 1999-MAY1999
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
- Director of Nursing of newly opened facility
- Resposible for care to 70 retirement apartments and a memory-impaired unit of 24 apartments.
- Hiring, scheduling, reviewing, and management of a 24 hour nursing staff consisting of RN's, LPN's, and CNA's.
- Job descrptions
- Prescreened prospective residents
- Developed plan of care for each resident based on needs and physicina orders.
- Responsible for compliance with Virginia social Services Regulations.
CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATES, LTD.
110 WIMBLEDON SQUARE, SUITE D
MAY 1992-JANUARY 1999
CHESAPEAKE, VA
- RN for large cardiology practice
- Supervise nuclear stress testing, stress echocardiography, and pharmacological cardiac stress testing.
- Pulmonary stress testing.
- Telephone triage
- Pacemaker telephone monitoring
- Rounded with physicians at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and managed care of patients and patient education.
- Nursing Director of Prentive Cardiology and Lipid Management Program
- Patient counseling for diet, exercise, and lipid lowering methods
- Lecture on risk factors to community and health-care groups
CARDIAC STEP DOWN UNIT 4 KAUFMAN
SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL
JUNE 1991-MAY 1992
NORFOLK, VA
- Staff Nurse - Cardiac Open Heart Surgical Step Down, Transplant, and Medical Telemetry Unit
CARDIAC PROGRESSIVE CARE UNIT
VIRGINIA BEACH GENERAL HOSPITAL
JUNE 1990- JUNE 1991
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
- Staff Nurse - Cardiac Open Heart Surgical Step Down and Cardiac Medical Telemetry Unit
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
- Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Religion
May 1980
Lynchburg, VA
Northern Virginia Community College
- Associates of Arts and Science in Nursing, Suma Cum Laude
May 1990
Annandale, VA
University of Phoenix
- Master of Arts in Education, Adult Education and Distance Learning
Scheduled to finish June, 2005
Phoenix, AZ
- Medical Careers Institute Teacher of the Year
- Dean's List and Honor-Roll
- Nursing Honor's Seminar
- Honors, Obstetrical Nursing Clinical, Faiarfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA
- 2002
- 1986-1990
- Fall 1989
- Spring 1990
- Research Coordinator, Cardizem CD Trial
- Gardening after a Heart Attack, Garden Therapy, a publication of One to Grow On, Inc., January/February 1999.
- Health Through Conscious Living, Column in Visions Magazine, December 1999-July 2000.
- School Health Advisory Board, Chesapeake Public Schools, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001
- American Holistic Nurses Association
- Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Nursing, License to Practice as a Registered Nurse #0001120812, Experation May 31, 2006
- Certification in Holistic Nursing, Seeds and Bidges, Inc. May 16, 1999
- Certification as a holistic Nurse, HNC, American Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation, March 5, 2000-2005.
- Reiki Master, August, 2000
- Healing Touch, Level I, January, 1998
- Holistic Stress Management Instructor, Inspirations Unlimited, Boulder, CO, September, 2004
- CPR Certification, American Heart Association Helathcare Provider 2/22/2005.
References and letters of recommendation available upon request.
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