Barbara Poythress

My overall goal is to always be on the path of higher learning. I desire to continue my career as a valuable resource person while sharing the knowledge and experience gained over 35 years as a nurse. My plan is to continue working in a clinical setting as an RN4 while remaining in academia as an educator role model to mentor students and broaden my experiences into other areas of nursing!

Weekend Option RN4 - Cone Health ARMC Perioperative Services - PACU

Clinical Nursing Instructor - Elon University

Clinical Nursing Instructor - Rockingham Community College

Clinical Nurse Educator at the Center of Nursing Discovery. Skills and Simulation. - Duke University School of Nursing

(2021-09 - 2022-04)

Cardiac ICU Nurse - Alamance Regional Medical Center

(2019 - 2021)

Returned to working weekends while obtaining my MSN

• Vented patients
• IV drip titrations
• Extensive hemodynamic monitoring

Adjunct Clinical Instructor - Alamance Community College - Graham, NC

(2016 - 2019)

Cardiac ICU Nurse - Moses Cone Hospital - Greensboro, NC

(2005 - 2008)

Variety of cardiac diagnoses ranging from intense ICU monitoring to Stepdown level of care. Returned to working weekends while obtaining my BSN (2013-2015)

Shared Services Nurse - Alamance Regional Medical Center - Burlington, NC

(2008-07 - 2014-04)

• Telemetry
• Cardiac cath lab for high risk cardiac patients
• ICU
• PACU

MICU/CICU Nurse - UNC Hospitals - Chapel Hill

(1990-10 - 1994)

Managing patients with a variety of complex medical and/or Cardiac diagnoses

Master's Science in Nursing - Nursing Education - UNC Chapel Hill (2021)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing - Nursing - UNC Greensboro (2015)

Associate Degree in Nursing - Nursing - Alamance Community College (1991)

Course Certificate - Excellence in Teaching for Nurse Educators - UNC Center for Lifelong Learning (2017)

Course Certificate - History Taking and Physical Assessment - UNC Center for Lifelong Learning (2018)