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MEET THE 2008 BOARD
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The 2008 President is
Beverly Andreoletti,
R.N. Beverly is a diploma graduate with 32 years experience in
various areas of Nursing, which includes operating room management,
medical-surgical, hemodialysis, and quality improvement. She is
currently working as an independent legal nurse consultant. She's
been an active member of the South Florida Chapter of AALNC for 7
years. One year as a Community Outreach Committee member, 6 years as a Chairperson of the Membership Committee,
and also is the current chairperson of the Membership Committee for
2008. Beverly is also an active member in the Florida Nurses
Association, the American Nurses Association and has served as a
member on the Near Miss Reporting System for the Florida Patient
Safety Corporation. Beverly can be reached at
Beverly@sflaalnc.org .
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The
2009 President Elect is
Holly Bedgio,
B.S.N., R.N.C., C.R.N.I., C.W.S., C.L.N.C. is an independent legal
nurse consultant with over 26 years of clinical nursing and
management experience. A former critical care nurse, she has held a
variety of clinical and management positions in nursing in a variety
of settings. She is currently Director of Clinical Operations and
Risk Management for Matrix Home Care. She has developed several
disease specific specialty home care programs dealing with COPD,
CHF, Hemophilia, Home Dobutamine/Primacor Therapy, Home Terbulatine
Therapy, Home Behavioral Health and Wound Management. She has
authored and published numerous articles regarding post acute care
nursing such as case management of the elderly, home behavioral
health, wound management, and resource management in home care. She
is nationally certified in home health nursing (RN-BC) by the
American Nursing Credentialing Center, certified in intravenous
nursing (CRNI) by the Intravenous Nursing Society, Certified as a
Wound Care Specialist (CWS) by the American Academy of Wound
Management and Certified as a Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC) through
the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. Her
consulting practice Bedgio and Associates LLC provides a full range
of consulting services and specializes in medical malpractice and
personal injury cases. She has been retained as consulting expert
and testifying expert by law firms across the country. Holly can be
reached at Holly@sflaalnc.org
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The 2008 Secretary is
Agnes Devonish,
M.S.N, R.N., C.L.N.C. has been in the
healthcare field for over thirty years during
which time she gained
experience in different areas of service and has held positions from
staff nurse to Director in Obstetrical services. Ms Devonish
nursing career began in England where she graduated as an RN in 1973
and CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) in 1975. She worked as a Staff
Midwife at Central Midlesex Hospital in London before migrating to
the United States. She furthered her nursing career by attaining
her B.Sc. from St Francis College in Joliet, Illinois and, MSN with
specialization management from the University of Phoenix. She
attained Certification in Legal Nurse Consulting in 2001 from Vickie
Milazzo Institute. Ms Devonish works as an independent Legal Nurse
Consultant, and is CEO of Devonish Medical-Legal Consulting. She
maintains her clinical knowledge and skills in Obstetrics and the
healthcare arena by being on staff at St Mary's Medical Center
hi-risk Antepartum unit. She is a member of the American
Association of Legal Nurse Consultants and has been a member of the
South Florida Chapter since 2005. She is also a member of the
National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. Ms
Devonish's philosophy includes a belief that making a difference in
someone's life is what really counts; it has been the most
gratifying benefit in her nursing career. Agnes can be readed at
Agnes@sflaalnc.org.
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The 2008 Treasurer is
Abdon Williams,
BS, RN, LHRM. Abdon graduated from the University of Greenwich,
London, UK with a BSN in Nursing. He has been a member of the
chapter for the past year and has over 17 years of nursing
experience in various areas of nursing including clinical research
and management. He is a Licensed Healthcare Risk Manager and a
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant. He currently works as Medical
Analyst for a litigation management company and as a Performance
Improvement Specialist with a large hospice company. Abdon can be
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The 2008 Director at Large is
Barbara Y. Levine,
B.S.N., R.N., L.H.R.M. Barbara's nursing career began as an LPN.
She continued her education and obtained her BSN from Pace
University in New York City. After completing her degree, she held
the position of Assistant Head Nurse for the Cardio/Thoracic
telemetry unit at a large teaching hospital. In 1984, she relocated
to South Florida and obtained a position as Clinical Supervisor for
an HMO in North Miami. After the HMO disbanded, she secured
employment at a Level I Trauma Center where she has been employed
for over twenty years. Her past positions held were in the
Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
department. Presently, she is interviewing and teaching the
pre-surgical patient as well as analyzing the pre-operative chart.
She has been a member of the South Florida Chapter for the past 3
years. Barbara can be reached at
barbara@sflaalnc.org.
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The 2008 Director at Large is
Beverly Bell-Proffett,
B.S.N., R.N., L.N.C. Originally from North Carolina, Beverly has
over 20 years of experience in all areas of critical care and
trauma, not limited to cardiothoracic, neurosurgery, trauma, and
flight nursing. She began her career at Duke University Medical
Center in North Carolina and became one of the first nurses to
venture into traveling nursing. She has worked at major teaching
hospitals in addition to Duke including Tulane Medical Center in New
Orleans, University of San Diego, and The Medical University of
South Carolina in Charleston, SC to name a few. She was honored with
being chosen as 1 of the 1600 members of the 2002 Salt Lake City
Winter Olympics Medical Team during the 3 week games. Her assigned
venue at Deer Valley Ski Resort in Park City, Utah was considered
one of the most elite due to the aerials high jumps, mogul racing,
and slalom events in which her trauma expertise paid off. Since
moving to South Florida in 2003, she has been an active Disaster
Nurse for the Palm Beach County Red Cross, being deployed 3 weeks
after Hurricane Katrina to the Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi region
to serve as Supervisor of Health Services. She has just returned in
that same role from the California Wildfires of 2007. Beverly is
trained as a single pilot with land and seaplane ratings, a rescue/nitrox
certified scuba diver and serves as Chairman for the Fundraising and
Conservation Committees for the Jupiter/Tequesta Junior Women's
Club. Beverly currently works as an Independent LNC business,
NurseShark Consulting, LNC in Jupiter, Florida, specializing in
Medical Malpractice. She has been a member of the South Florida
Chapter and the National AALNC sine early 2007. She attended the
National Conference of the AALNC in Austin, Texas in April 2007.
Beverly can be reached at
beverlyb@sflaalnc.org.
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