Nancy also found time in between these assignments to live in Santiago, Chile for four years and serve as a healthcare consultant in hospital management and administration while her husband served as U.S. Peace Corps Country Director in Chile
NANCY
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer, Saint Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
571-bed facility named to the national "Top 100 Hospitals" list
Associate Degree in Nursing, MassBay Community College
BSRN Degree, University of Massachusetts, Boston
MMHS Masters in Management of Human Services, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
United States Peace Corps Language Training Program in Spanish, Chile
The MassBay Nursing program was absolutely super. They couldn't have prepared me better. I received a wonderful foundation in nursing and take great pride in being a MassBay alumni. I was very blessed to have found such a good program.
Nancy's illustrious 27-year career in Nursing began with an Associate Degree in Nursing at MassBay. The mother of four young children at the time, Nancy was looking to re-enter the workforce when the MassBay Associate degree in Nursing program came to her attention.
"I was with a great group of about 40 nursing students. I met wonderful people and excellent clinicians. We had instructors who were committed to assuring our successful completion of the program. It was a very rich group in that many of the men and women in the program had had other careers. We were a resource for each other."
After graduation, Nancy found immediate employment at Boston University Medical Center and has worked steadily ever since. Her next step brought her to UMass for her Bachelor of Science degree. She was still working full time and every weekend so she could accommodate clinicals during the week. She had an opportunity to transition to the hospital's psychiatric unit and was soon promoted to Nurse Manager. During that time, she went back to school yet again enrolling at Brandeis University where she ultimately received a Master's degree in Management of Human Services and was promoted to Senior Nursing Director.
Subsequent positions led to increasingly responsible assignments including Vice President of Patient Services and Vice President of Operations at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Reading, PA and Assistant Administrator of Patient Care at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Nancy also found time in between these assignments to live in Santiago, Chile for four years and serve as a healthcare consultant in hospital management and administration while her husband served as U.S. Peace Corps Country Director.
She was named Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville in June 2000. The 571-bed hospital is one of the top three cardiac care centers in the U.S. and has consistently been named to the national "Top 100 Hospitals List."
The President and CEO of Saint Thomas Hospital, Thomas Beeman, called Nancy "a seasoned and nationally-respected leader in healthcare." Nancy gives the credit for a solid foundation of nursing skills to MassBay. "I received superb clinical experience at MassBay and was often told by BSRN nurses that MassBay Associate degree graduates were better prepared clinically. In fact, our class received top grades across the country in the NCLEX exams."
"Time is going to go by regardless and people think that if they can't attend college in the traditional way, then education isn't for them. That's just not true. I'm a living example of what can happen when you take a quality Associate degree program. You can jump off from that. It has to be a respected program and the MassBay program certainly falls into that category."
