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Dr Katharine West

DNP, MPH, RN-BC, PHN, CNS

RN informatics consultant

RN integrative health coach

Conversations & collaborations to change your personal or business life!


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Katharine West

DNP, MPH

RN-BC, PHN, CNS 

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I have expertise in nursing that includes an advanced practice license as a Parent-Child Health Clinical Nurse Specialist and a certified Public Health Nurse. I am ANCC board-certified in Nursing Informatics and hold a post-graduate certificate in public health informatics from the University of Illinois - Chicago. In the last few years, my interest has turned to integrative / functional health care and am certified as an integrative health coach by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York, a certified Brain Trainer with the Amen Clinics, and a certified coach with the Neuroencoding Institute.

         

Clinical experience: I have broad clinical experiences ranging from in-patient care in Labor & Delivery, NICU, and PICU to insurance-based case management, infertility ambulatory care, and maternal-child home health and pediatric hospice care. I  was privileged to be on the team that implemented California's initial statewide public health program for newborn hearing screening.

         

Informatics: I provide 1:1 consultation with my Gentle Tech approach to personal and business computing. I currently hold EPIC Systems certifications for the electronic healthcare record, with 13 years’ experience as a clinical systems analyst for Kaiser Permanente’s medical records system where I led surgical specialties in the development and maintenance of custom informatics solutions for documentation in the patient chart. 

         

Teaching: I have taught nursing at all levels from vocational to graduate with an emphasis on public health and informatics nursing. I am certified as an advanced facilitator for the Southern California on ground campus of the University of Phoenix undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. My extensive experience coupled with my scholarship and abilities to communicate make me an outstanding educator of computer technologies applied to health care. My podium and paper presentations on using computer technologies in nursing and data management are enthusiastically received at local, regional, national, and international conferences.

         

Education: A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a BA from USC and a BSN from Excelsior University, I earned master’s degrees from UCLA (MPH) and Azusa Pacific University (MSN), and earned my DNP from the California State University Northern Consortium at Fresno.

         

Author: I have been a contributing author to books on qualitative research, global nursing, and rural nursing, created online content for textbooks on maternal-newborn nursing, and served as a reviewer for Englebardt’s leading healthcare informatics text.

         

My varied and dynamic experience is distinctive among nurses. I enjoy discerning health care trends, then translate them into pragmatic learning opportunities, and show others how to harness these changes in clinical care for wellness.

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INFORMATICS

Need help with writing or research design to get good data? Need to input information into a computer system for quality data mining output?

Want to change or improve a work process quickly?

I can help!

I also provide editorial support for student writing & projects, scientific writing, and style & formatting.

Bonus: I provide graphic design consultation for rendering your research conceptual maps into printable formats for publication.

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HEALTH COACH

Need someone to talk to about your health? Conversations can change your health!

As a certified integrative nutrition health coach and advanced practice registered nurse,

I can help!

Having your own personal RN to talk to could be just the inspiration  you need to feel better!

I can support you in making lifestyle changes of your choice or as directed by your physician for chronic medical conditions, such as thyroid disease, arthritis, fibromyalgia, brain health, and more.

Contact me for a complimentary initial appointment.



Contact Me

Let's meet in person (Southern California), by easy online video conferencing, or by phone.


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