Elizabeth Houser

Instruct and supervise undergraduate nursing students in clinical lab settings, ensuring safe and effective practice of essential nursing skills and procedures.

Adjunct Faculty – Lab Instructor - Delaware Technical Community College - Newark, DE

(2025)

Instruct and supervise undergraduate nursing students in clinical lab settings, ensuring safe and effective practice of essential nursing skills and procedures.

• Provide hands-on demonstrations of clinical techniques, including head to toe assessments, nasogastric tube insertions, foley catheter insertions, wound dressing changes, IV tube priming and administration, tracheostomy care and medication administration.
• Collaborate with nursing faculty to ensure competencies and integrate lave content with didactic coursework and clinical rotations.
• Monitor student performance of essential clinical lab skills and provide individualized feedback and remediation to support skill development.
• Assist in lab simulation scenarios and provide feedback.
• Stay current with best practices in nursing education and clinical simulation.

Program Director - First State School, Wilmington Hospital - Wilmington, Delaware

(2014-12)

• Provides preventive and acute health care to the adolescent and pediatric population.
• Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to assess, diagnose and treat a pediatric patient.
• Collaborates with Red Clay School District Administration to direct a comprehensive and collaborative program to meet the medical, educational, and psychosocial needs of our patients.
• Directs, mentors, supports, evaluates and supervises all medical staff.
• Leads team to identify admission criteria and medical necessity for patients/students.
• Serves as the onsite medical expert.
• Participates in all students’ Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meeting to ensure all medical services are appropriate.
• Manages the annual operating and capital budget with Administrative Director for Pediatrics.
• Provides medical education for First State School nursing and educational staff.
• Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide appropriate care to chronically ill children and adolescents including knowledge of growth and development, the ability to obtain and interpret information to identify patient needs, and to provide the care needed.

Registered Nurse - First State School, Wilmington Hospital - Wilmington, Delaware

(2007-06 - 2014-12)

• Utilize assessment skills to evaluate and treat pediatric patients with chronic illnesses.
• Use documentation skills to record detailed and accurate assessments.
• Administer medications orally, intravenously, subcutaneously and via gastric tube.
• Administer Recombinant Factor via peripheral IV daily.
• Perform phlebotomy procedures by means of PICC lines, Central line catheters, Peripheral IV and implanted Port-a-cath.
• Perform patient and family teaching, according to individual illness, on a daily basis.
• Utilize communication skills to be a patient advocate to their primary care physicians, specialty physicians, educators and therapists.
• Coordinate with Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Physicians and Educators to develop a comprehensive plan for every patient.
• Develop nursing goals for Individual Education Plan for patients.

Registered Nurse - Lauren’s House - Boothwyn, Pennsylvania

(2005-12 - 2007-06)

• Utilize assessment skills to evaluate pediatric patients with special needs.
• Administer medications and enteral feeds to these patients.
• Perform sterile procedures: Replacing Gastric Tube buttons and nasogastric tubes.
• Complete tracheostomy care daily: suctioning tracheostomies, replacing and changing tracheostomies.
• Assist with daily Physical Therapy.
• Utilize communication skills to be a patient advocate to their primary care physicians.

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) - Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist - University of Delaware (2014-12)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) - Widener University (2004-05)