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  Catherine Claery-Sanford

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).