Jussaume CV-Updated May 2012 - MGHIHP

Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Name: Susan M. Jussaume, MS, APRN, FNP-BC, AHN-BC Home Address: 94 Seventh Avenue

Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 USA Home Phone: 978-453-6355

Office Address: Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions 36 First Avenue Charlestown Navy Yard Boston, Massachusetts 02129

Office Phone: 617-726-3142 Office Fax: 617-724-6321

Email: sjussaume@mghihp.edu

Education

Master of Science in Family and Community Health Nursing University of Massachusetts at Lowell September 1987 - February 1991

Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts August 1974-June 1978

Comprehensive College Prep Course of Study Saint Mary High School 1970 ? 1974

Licensures & Certifications

2012 BLS for Health Care Providers - Adult/Child/Infant & AED Certification

2011 Advanced Holistic Nurse AHNCC - board certified

2011 Spirituality and Nursing

2011 Radiation Therapy 101 2010 Foundations of Holistic Nursing - Certification - American Holistic Nurses Association 2010 Therapeutic Reflexology 2008 Basic Life Support/CPR 2001 Therapist Certification

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine and Dr. Christiane Page "Soul Directed Approach Intuition Training Program (three levels) 1991 Advanced Practice Nurse, Family & Community Health Specialty Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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1990 Nurse Practitioner (current) American Nurses Credentialing Center

1989 Certified in Therapeutic Touch Delores Krieger PhD, RN, Founder of Therapeutic Touch Practices Craryville, New York

1979 Certification in Mastectomy & Ostomy Care and Teaching American Cancer Society St. John's Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts

1978 Registered Nurse (current) Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Honor Society Chapter Activity

Sigma Theta Tau Memberships Eta Omega Chapter: University of Massachusetts at Lowell (Charter Member) Lambda Epsilon Chapter: Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (Charter Member)

Professional Memberships American Academy of Nurse Practitioners American Holistic Nurses Association American Nurses Association Massachusetts Nurses Association Merrimack Valley Nurse Practitioner Association Merrimack Valley Medical Reserve Corps

Training & Internships

1974 ? 1978

Nursing Clinical Rotations in areas of medical/surgical, orthopedic, trauma/IMC and ER, maternity, pediatric, psychiatric, and community nursing. Clinical sites include Saints Memorial Medical Center (formerly St. John's Hospital), Lowell General Hospital, Greater Lowell Pediatrics, and Greater Lowell Visiting Nurses Association.

1987 ? 1991

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner/Family & Community Health Practice Specialty. Clinical sites include Chelmsford Family Practice, Greater Lowell Pediatrics, Lowell Community Women's Health Services, and Saints Memorial Medical Center (formerly St. John's Hospital), and Lowell General Hospital.

1989 ? 1990 Independent Study: The Affects of Therapeutic Touch Upon Oncology Patient. Clinical site was Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Academic Appointments & Teaching

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2008 Instructor & Course Coordinator Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

2007 Term Clinical Faculty/Lecturer Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

2006 Adjunct Clinical Faculty/Lecturer Graduate Nursing Program University of Massachusetts at Lowell

2000 ? Advanced Practice Clinical Preceptor/Family Practice 2007 Boston College and University of Massachusetts at Lowell

1990 ? AIDS Awareness & Family Life Program Author and Presenter 2006 Greater Lowell Community (private schools)

Professional Publications

1979 Mastectomy Teaching Booklet St. John's Hospital Lowell, Massachusetts

1980 Ostomy Care Teaching Booklet St. John's Hospital Lowell, Massachusetts

1988

Healthy Eating Habits for Cancer Prevention Demoulas Family Publications/The Pallet Tewksbury, Massachusetts

1990 Graduate Thesis "Affects of Therapeutic Touch Upon Oncology Patients" University of Massachusetts at Lowell

1994 - AIDS Awareness Education Curriculum Workbook for the Grammar School-Aged Child 2006 Family Life Program

The Nightingale Center for Heath & Wellness in Lowell, Massachusetts

Professional Experience

September 2007 - Present Massachusetts General Hospital Institutes of Health Professions Graduate Nursing Program Instructor & Course Coordinator

Advanced Practice Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning Health Assessment/Course Coordinator ? MGHIHP's newly launched ABSN program Family Health Practicum ? 1ST & 3rd year levels

April 1991 - Present The Nightingale Health & Wellness Center - Lowell, Massachusetts Director, Health and Wellness Educator

Offering wellness and preventative health education services.

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 Providing patients and their families individualized health care counseling, incorporating health promotion and disease prevention

Providing small group classes addressing women's wellness, intuition training, and energy medicine. Counseling & coaching individuals regarding strategies to actively participate in health care choices,

facilitating growth to one's highest potential and level of wellness. Providing health education for grammar and high school aged children regarding family life and AIDS

awareness

January 2009 ? June 2009 Dracut Family HealthCare, LLC - Dracut, Massachusetts Family Nurse Practitioner (flexible part-time) Providing comprehensive family practice care, including obstetrics With-in the professional scope of NP practice, along with MD and NP colleagues of this practice

September 2006 - December 2006

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

Graduate Nursing Program Clinical Instructor/Lecturer Advanced Practice Health Assessment Class and Lab

September 2000 - December2007

Blackwell Family Medicine in Westford, Massachusetts

Advanced Practice Clinical Preceptor at Boston College and University of Massachusetts at Lowell Provided individual student instruction at the clinical site for advanced practice student Family Nurse Practitioners.

August 1998 - December 2007

Blackwell Family Medicine in Westford, Massachusetts

Family Nurse Practitioner Worked in a professional scope of practice to offer primary care services to patients of all age groups. Functioned at the colleague level with family physicians at the practice. Directed and worked with ancillary staff at the practice. Collaborated with the medical community through referrals Consulted as needed by the patient population.

September 1994 - August 1998 Saints Memorial Family Health in Tewksbury, Massachusetts Family Nurse Practitioner

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June 1991 - June 1992 Tewksbury Family Practice in Tewksbury, Massachusetts Family Nurse Practitioner

August 1983 ? Present

Private Practice in Lowell, Massachusetts

Patient Liaison Establishing patient contacts with oncology specialists at the

Dana Faber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. Providing one-on-one patient and family counseling regarding

oncology care and services.

June 1979 - December 1982 St. John's Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts Nursing In-service Instructor, Patient Educator

Provided clinical instruction to nursing staff and patients.

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July 1978 - June 1979 St. John's Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts Medical/Surgical Unit Registered Nurse

Provided team nursing on a thirty bed unit. Functioned as a team leader.

Honors & Awards

2012 Worldwide Who's Who - Achievements in Nursing Practice & Education

2009 Partners In Excellence Award - Recognition for Outstanding Performance & Commitment to Excellence

2007 Nominated to Cambridge Who's Who Honors Program as "Professional of the Year" in Holistic Nursing

2006 Strathmore's Who's Who Recipient for Demonstrated Leadership and Achievement in Advanced Practice Nursing

2005 Empire Who's Who Executives and Professionals Lifetime Member

2005 Manchester Who's Who Executives and Professionals Member

2006, 2007 Empire Who's Who VIP Member

1997 Lumina Award for international recognition for AIDS Awareness Education, Loyola College, Chicago, IL (for creating and facilitating the first comprehensive primary school age HIV/AIDS awareness education program in the United States)

Jan 15, 1994 Featured in Lowell Sun Newspaper ("AIDS education and outreach efforts")

Dec 25, 1988 Featured in Lowell Sun Newspaper ("Healing power of therapeutic touch")

1982 American Cancer Society Unit Award (MA)

1979 - 1980 President of Lowell, Massachusetts chapter of American Cancer Society

Mentors

Dr. Wayne Dyer Delores Kreiger, PhD, RN Carolyn Myss Dr. Margaret Newman Dr. Christiane Northrup Dr. Norman Vincent Peale Dr. Eleanor Shalhoup Ignatius B. Tabor Pope John Paul II Dr. Jean Watson Dr. Andrew Weil Marianne Williamson

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Professional Interests Holistic Nursing Integrative Medicine and Nursing Practice Health Care Educator & Mentor for Development & Education of Global Holistic and Integrative Health Care Primary Care - Evidence Based Family Practice

Brief Biography

Susan Jussaume joined the faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 2007. She has taught Advanced Practice Health Assessment and Practicum Seminars. Susan has 30 years of experience in the field of health care. She has worked in the areas of Medical/Surgical, Orthopedic, Maternity, Pediatrics, and Oncology. For sixteen years Susan was extensively involved in authoring and presenting an AIDS Awareness Program for grammar school aged children and their families. In 1997 she was presented with the Lumina Award given at Loyola University in Chicago for pioneering one of the first comprehensive grammar school education programs for AIDS awareness.

Since 1991 she has functioned in the role of Advanced Practice Nurse with a specialty in Family and Community Health. In 1998 Susan teamed up with a brand new family practice where she worked diligently with the staff and health care providers of the practice to assure its success. Susan carried her own patient caseload. She has extensive experience in collaborating with her colleagues and medical specialists of the community. She has also drawn on the wisdom of her mentors in health care, some of whom are listed above in her CV. Since 2000, Susan has incorporated the role of clinical preceptor at her family practice site as she values the importance of teaching and role modeling for the new generation of student nurse practitioners. The family practice group became known for its comprehensive, compassionate and competent manner of caring for its patients and families. Susan practices within the holistic and integrative model of health care, utilizing nursing theory from Margaret Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory and Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring. She is certified in Therapeutic Touch, which was the subject of her graduate research, and The Soul Directed Approach to patient interaction, certified by the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine.

In 1991 Susan ventured into the realm of being an entrepreneur and established her own wellness education business where she became the owner and director of the Nightingale Health and Wellness Center. She offers wellness and preventative health education services for small group classes, encouraging individuals to actively participate in their health care choices, facilitating growth to one's highest potential and level of wellness.

Susan's interests lie strongly in the field of integrative and holistic nursing and health care. She is interested in developing curriculum utilizing the integrative model. Susan makes her home in a suburb of Boston with her husband Allan with whom she has raised a family of four children, two daughters and two sons.

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The Journey

My love of caring for people began when I was a young girl. We have a large extended family and my parents always seemed to be caring for someone, and I was often with them when they were in this role. I began to develop a joy and interest in caring for people and teaching them about their health. When I was a teenager my father developed bone cancer. His illness immersed me into the world of healthcare. The nurses who cared for my dad inspired me; I often marveled at their medical expertise and ability to maintain a close bond of caring with their patient (my father) and our family.

Choosing my undergraduate major was easy, as I followed my interest in caring for others to a professional level. I embarked into the field of nursing when it was undergoing a transitional phase from a three year hospital-based program to a four-year baccalaureate program. I was among the first graduates to complete the four-year college degree in nursing. That accomplishment proved to be a challenge when I worked side-by-side with many of my colleagues who were hesitant to accept this new form of professional nurse. It was exiting to be part of that pioneering phase, and this helped to build my character.

I always enjoyed one-on-one patient teaching, and wanted to grow further in my professional role. I returned to school to pursue my Master's Degree and obtain certification as an Advanced Practice Nurse. During my graduate studies I was introduced to concepts of therapeutic touch by Dr. Delores Kreiger. This opened up a whole new arena for me; I had found the world of holistic care and integrative therapies. If felt to me as if I had "come home" and found a place where I truly belonged in the nursing profession. It seemed as though I could not read or learn enough about this subject.

I gathered many other professional and personal mentors over the past thirty years of my professional nursing career, helping to build and solidify my holistic practice. I draw strongly on Dr. Margaret Newman's theory of caring, "Health as Expanding Consciousness" and Dr. Jean Watson's, Theory of Human Caring. I value caring for the total human being, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and incorporated this as a personal and professional approach to life.

I spent twenty years in the Advanced Practice role in a family practice setting, where I had the honor and privilege of caring for my own patient population and collaborating with my colleagues, medical specialists, my patients and the community at large. I recently transitioned into academia, where my love of teaching will extend to the students I am fortunate to teach. The time has arrived when I can give back to my profession as a role model, teacher and healer. I will continue to advance my role, as I plan to pursue the Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. I hope to be blessed with many more active years in my profession, as we are once again at a pioneering stage in our field. Carpe Diem!

~Susan M. Jussaume, MS, APRN, FNP-BC, AHN-BC

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