Catherine Clarey-Sanford

RN, MSN
clareysanford@hope.edu

Room 1138 of Science Center
616-395-7423 (office)
616-395-7163 (fax)

Education:

• MSN: Grand Valley State University – 2000
• BSN: University of Michigan - Flint – 1988
• Diploma: Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing – 1977

Specialty:

• Gerontology
• Home Health Care
• Wound, Ostomy, Continence Care
• Leadership and Management

Professional Experience:

• 2003 - Present Assistant Professor of Nursing – Hope College
• Consultant Certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse
  Lakeland, St. Joseph – Borgess, Kalamazoo
• Consultant Clinical Therapy Specialist
  Hill-Rom Company, Batesville, IN
• Adjunct Faculty Clinical Nursing Instructor
  • Indiana University South Bend, IN
  • Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI
  • Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI
• Clinical Experience - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Surgical Supervisor, Cardiology, Organ Procurement, Emergency/Triage, Hemodialysis, Intensive Care

Research Interests:

• Pressure Ulcer Prevention
• Wound Care Practices
• Care of the Bariatric Patient

Presentations:

• Teaching Wound Assessment Skills: An Innovative Approach
  Poster Presentation: 2003 Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin &
  Wound Care – Chicago, IL / 2002 Mideast Regional Conference, Healing
  With the ET Touch, Frankenmuth, MI
• The Use of Multi-Podus Boots for Heel Pressure Ulcer Prevention
  Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, Dallas, TX
• Primary Prevention as Intervention: Assessing Pressure Ulcer Risk Factors
  in the Emergency Department, Scholarly Project
• Poster Presentation: Using Slow-released Silver hydrofiber Dressings on a Neck Radiation Burn. Poster Presentation for WOCN National Conference, Salt Lake City Utah.
• Introduction to a Bowel Management System: Zassi. Expert speaker for the Hollister Corporation to the Mid-East Illinois CWOCN, Bloomington, IL

Honors:

• 2007 Excellence in Education from Sigma Theta Tau International
• 2002 Above and Beyond Award 4th Quarter Hill-Rom
• 2001 Lakeland Regional Health System Woman of Achievement Finalist
• 2000 Ida Barrett Award for Excellence in Education (MSN)
• 2000 Outstanding Student Award – Nursing (MSN)

Professional Organizations:

• Advance Practice Nursing Network – Kalamazoo, MI
• National Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society
• Mid-East Region Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurses
• Sigma Theta Tau – Kappa Epsilon at Large
• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Community Service:

• Nurse for Crop Walk – Berrien County yearly event
• Flu Vaccine Program First United Methodist Church
• Co-Developer and writer for the Big Scoop! – Wound, Ostomy, Continence Quarterly News Letter, Lakeland Med Center

Publications:

• Maki, L. & Clarey-Sanford, C. (2007). Using slow-released silver hydrofiber dressings on a neck radiation burn. Journal of Wound, Ostomy, & Continence Nursing, 34(5), 542-545.
• Clarey-Sanford, C. (2007). Deep tissue injury: The new pressure ulcer staging. Lakeland ET Newsletter: The Big Scoop! Wound, Ostomy, Continence News, 5 (2).