Carmen pursued her postgraduate education at one of the top 15 Nurse-Midwifery and Nurse Practitioner programs in the country, Frontier University in Hyden, Kentucky, where she obtained a Certificate as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Nurse-Midwifery.

Additional studies in healthcare economics and disease management led Carmen to a CMR certificate from the Certified Medical Representative Institute in Richmond, Virginia.

Intrigued by the expanding field of healthcare economics, Carmen became licensed with the Division of Insurance.

She has continued fueling her commitment to lifelong learning with courses at The Rich Dad Education Co. and Tigrent Learning.

Carmen also has gained a wide array of practical, firsthand experience in nursing and business. Many of her inspirational insights come from the broad and strong knowledge base she built throughout her healthcare career.

Carmen started her healthcare career as a certified nuclear medicine technologist and went on to land her first BSN-RN position straight out of nursing school in women's health--labor and delivery in downtown Chicago, Illinois. She later became an OB Nurse Manager and finished her full time clinical nursing career as an Advanced Practice Nurse-Midwife.

The business world pulled Carmen into healthcare sales. Eight years with Pfizer Inc., once the world's largest pharmaceutical company, gave Carmen solid, foundational knowledge of the field.

Keeping active in nursing via Maxim Healthcare Services, the largest privately held healthcare staffing company in the nation, Carmen's healthcare experience expanded in the arenas of maximum security prison nursing, hospice nursing and community health nursing.

Then collegiate education came calling. For eight years, Carmen taught nursing as an adjunct professor in both ADN and BSN programs in the private and for-profit sectors.

With her solid and proven track record, Carmen went on to accept a position as a Clinical Nurse Educator at a leading global provider of best-in-class clinical, commercial and consulting services for pharmaceutical, biotech and life science companies, inVentiv Health, Inc.

Carmen's diversified background strongly positioned her to work as the Director of Development in Nursing & Health Professions for Corinthian Colleges Inc., one of the largest post-secondary education companies in North America.

Additionally, Carmen is a contributing author for Publishing Concepts, Inc., the largest publisher of State Board of Nursing journals in the United States. There, her articles span 21 states and quarterly reach a staggering 2.1 million plus nurses, students, faculty and hospitals officials. She furthermore writes for the Tennessee Nursing Extra, the most respected & widely read healthcare journal in Tennessee where her articles and insights reach over 150,000 healthcare professionals of every degree and discipline quarterly.

Carmen is a member of the American Nurse Association as well as the Alabama State Nurses Association.

Her first book, 'Nurses, Jobs and Money -- A Guide to Advancing Your Nursing Career and Salary', is a must-read for veteran nurses, student nurses, new nurses and anyone looking to become a nurse!

Family

Carmen, her husband of 23 years, their two children and rescued Greyhound, reside in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overlooking the Appalachian and Cumberland mountain ranges.

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