America Kelleher
NCLEX Success Specialist
Albuquerque,NM
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
NCLEX Success Specialist
Brookline College
Albuquerque, NM
01.2020 - Current
- Collaborate with the corporate managers, campus director, dean of nursing, and nursing faculty to review and strategize student content mastery outcomes to improve NCLEX success and licensure pass rates.
- Assess and motivate students one-on-one to gauge the need for support and refer preparation struggles with NCLEX-style testing to the faculty NCLEX coach.
- Provide students who are having issues with poor study habits, test anxiety, and organizational and time management skills with guidance and support.
- Development and maintenance of the campus student ambassador program.
Part-Time Instructor Health Wellness Public Safety
Community College of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
05.2019 - Current
- Retain interest and maximized receptive learning by educating students using instructional techniques, including hands-on and laboratory curriculum.
- Participate in workshops and training to improve skills and learn new methods for classroom instruction.
- Plan instruction to achieve objectives based on student needs and an established curriculum.
- Educate and mentor students to help individuals surmount academic obstacles and personal difficulties.
- Hold clinical simulation projects and provide each student with individual feedback.
- Observe and evaluate student performance and development and provide appropriate feedback on work.
Instructor
Pima Medical Institute, MA Lab, Career Prep, MAA
Albuquerque, NM
07.2017 - 12.2019
- Prepared instruction through lesson plans to address students assessed needs, goals, and objectives.
- Evaluated students to uncover learning deficiencies and devise improvement plans.
- Employed a variety of teaching styles to respond to the needs of diverse learners.
- Delivered hands-on presentations and lectures to complement course concepts and explain course requirements.
- Managed laboratory scheduling and recruited student staff to oversee operations for course credit.
- Maintained student engagement through creative subject delivery and learning activities.
- Managed daily lab sessions and scheduled lab work appointments to support student needs.
Marriage and Family Therapist
Rio Grande Counseling & Guidance Center
Albuquerque, NM
03.2015 - 07.2017
- Encouraged individuals and family members to develop skills and use strategies for confronting problems constructively.
- Developed individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems.
- Identified treatment goals, wrote contracts specific to individual client needs and monitored, evaluated and recorded client progress toward treatment goals.
- Assessed and interpreted non-verbal client cues, equipped families to understand behavior and reestablish lives, taught coping mechanisms and set up aftercare plans.
- Conducted individual, couples and family counseling sessions as clinically indicated to provide psychotherapeutic interventions and establish and assess treatment goals.
- Guided clients through death and divorce to support therapeutic needs and create plan for continuing care.
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services.
Education
MS - Marriage and Family Therapy
University of Phoenix
04.2013
BS - Health And Human Services
University of Phoenix
Fresno, CA04.2009
Cert. Medical Assistant - Medical Assisting
Beverly Enterprises, Inc
05-1992
Cert Certified Nursing Assistant - Nursing Assistance
Erma Duncan Polytechnical High School
Fresno, CA06-1991
Skills
- Understanding and mastery of Office 365, Sharepoint, Excel, Bookings, and Powerpoint
- Knowledge and proficiency in multiple learning management systems
- Coordination and execution of schoolwide and classroom events
- Relationship skills, decision-making, and critical thinking
- Event flyer creation and school-wide classroom presentations
- Student Counseling
- Education Assessments
- Data analysis and reporting
Affiliations
- Member, American Counseling Association
- American Heart Association Instructor Certified
- Member, UOP Alumni Association
- CMA- 1992
- CCNA- 1991
- Member, Small Business Association (2018 - present)
References
References upon request
Timeline
NCLEX Success Specialist
Brookline College
01.2020 - Current
Part-Time Instructor Health Wellness Public Safety
Community College of New Mexico
05.2019 - Current
Instructor
Pima Medical Institute, MA Lab, Career Prep, MAA
07.2017 - 12.2019
Marriage and Family Therapist
Rio Grande Counseling & Guidance Center
03.2015 - 07.2017
MS - Marriage and Family Therapy
University of Phoenix
BS - Health And Human Services
University of Phoenix
Cert. Medical Assistant - Medical Assisting
Beverly Enterprises, Inc
Cert Certified Nursing Assistant - Nursing Assistance
Erma Duncan Polytechnical High School
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