Vanessa VanDomelen

My name is Vanessa VanDomelen and I have been a RN for 32  years.  I  was born  in Hillsboro, Oregon at OHSU/Tuality Community Hospital, the hospital that I have worked at  the last 29 years.  I graduated from Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing in 1985 with a diploma.  After helping raise four daughters, I returned to  complete my BSN at Linfield Good Samaritan School of Nursing in 2012.  I finished my MSN in nursing education from Lamar University August 20,2016.  I completed the healthcare simulation education graduate certificate from Boise State University June 9th,2017.  I currently hold WOCNCB certifications in wound,ostomy and foot and nail care. I also hold certification as a certified foot care specialist through the American Foot Care Nurses Association. I recently retired from working full-time as a wound and ostomy nurse in an outpatient clinic,inpatient, and at a geri psychiatric unit. I currently work as  clinical nurse faculty at George Fox University School of Nursing starting the Fall of 2017.  I teach on line as a guest lecturer twice a year for the Valley Foundation School of Nursing Wound and Ostomy program-San Jose State University for their foot and nail portion of the wound instruction.  My favorite focus is limb preservation and preventative foot and nail care education.  

I grew up in the farming community of Mountaindale, Oregon on Dairy Creek where my family maintains a Sesquicentennial Oregon Century Farm that remains in active farming.  My family is registered in the first book of Oregon.  I am embarking on a new trail discovering what healthcare simulation can bring to the future for nursing, interprofessionally and for patient delivery. It is my goal to secure a posistion as a simulation educator in a nursing program and obtain the CHSE certification.