Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
Languages
Timeline
PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES AND LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS (1985 - 2017)
ACADEMIC COURSES, VOLUNTEER, AND OTHER WORK
Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)
Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)
Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)
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DANIELLE R. COMBS

WEST ORANGE,NJ

Summary

  • REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE: EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND CLINICAL PRACTICE Seasoned professional serving diverse populations in the US, Israel, and Africa: Prenatal, gynecology, family planning, labor and delivery, obstetrical triage, nursery, antepartum, postpartum, and infertility in public and private facilities
  • Medical clinical, field, and academic research in modern and indigenous settings
  • Extensive writing experience
  • Collaborator for International multicenter clinical trials, national healthcare services study
  • University, College, Technical nursing school faculty
  • Assistant nurse managerial experience
  • Educator and school nurse for students in primary schools
  • Primary caregiver, health assessment and promotion in home and clinics
  • Skilled; organized, thorough, conscientious, work well independently and as a team
  • Fluent Hebrew, proficient French, conversant Spanish
  • Limited Arabic, Ki-Swahili
  • Graduate of three complete nurse midwifery courses
  • Skilled in normal and high-risk midwifery and obstetrics
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Diligence to detail
  • Available for immediate work.

Healthcare professional with strong background in patient care and medical support. Known for collaborative work with medical teams to deliver high-quality care and adapt to evolving patient needs. Expertise in patient assessment and medication administration, along with compassionate care and reliability.

Overview

33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

RN

Macabi HMO
  • Telephone contact and follow-up: senior population
  • Offer health checks, vaccines, blood tests, screening tests, health promotion, education, and appointment schedules.

Nurse Auditor

ORS Company (Ministry of Welfare)
Tel-Aviv
10.2021
  • Orientation training: clinic audit visits for populations with disabilities, Jerusalem

RN

Alexander Muss American High School
Hod Hasharon
10.2019
  • Orientation

Full-time nursing faculty

Eastwick College
Hackensack, NJ
01.2025 - 01.2026
  • Didactic and clinical nursing courses (laboratory simulation and hospital assessment of clinical competencies) LPN, ADN, BSN.
  • Maternal newborn, pediatrics, fundamentals, pharmacology, medical-surgical, (Concepts I, II, III) complex health concepts, clinical skills review, and geriatrics.
  • ATI platform, test creation, proctoring.

Part-time nursing faculty

Merit Technical Institute
Harrison, NJ
04.2024 - 09.2025
  • Didactic and clinical nursing courses (laboratory simulation and long-term care assessment of clinical competencies) LPN.
  • Fundamentals, basic skills, maternal newborn, pediatrics, pharmacology, and mental health.
  • ATI quiz creation, proctoring.

Volunteer RN for mom

Primary caregiver home and hospital
West Orange, Livingston
03.2023 - 08.2023
  • Around the clock nursing care throughout acute illness, multiple hospitalizations, and ER visits.
  • Physical therapy, self and assisted care, medication administration, tube feedings.
  • Executor for homecare functions, advocacy, navigation in home and hospital.

Medical Research Coordinator, RN

Hadassah Medical Center Department of Breast Surgery
Jerusalem
11.2021 - 02.2023
  • Mount Scopus, Ein Kerem
  • Margin Probe 2/0 Trial, PECS study.
  • Organization and management of one hundred research participant files, data, and CRF forms.
  • Coordination with International sponsor, Helsinki Committee, institutional bodies, physicians, nurses, and medical staff

Volunteer RN for mom

Caregiver in Family Home
West-Orange, NJ
04.2020 - 07.2021
  • Around the clock care and assistance for family homebound during coronavirus pandemic.

RN

Eminent Consulting, (LLC, Tennessee)
Bronx, Queens, New York
06.2020 - 09.2020
  • Contract Eminent Consulting, (LLC, Tennessee). Bronx, Queens, New York: RN Health and Hospitals Corporation, orientation, and on call.

RN

Mediton Company
Tel-Aviv
03.2020 - 04.2020
  • Cognitive and physical functional Assessments, insurance claims, Jerusalem.

RN

Bikur Rofe Emergency Medicine
Jerusalem
02.2020 - 03.2020
  • Orientation

School nurse

Natali Company (Ministry of Health)
Jerusalem
08.2018 - 02.2019
  • Routine and make-up vaccination: first – eighth grade.
  • Research, consultation, education, and follow-up for vaccine and health matters, timetable planning and management.

School nurse

Femi premium Company (Ministry of Health)
Tel-Aviv areas
02.2018 - 06.2018
  • Health education (nutrition, hygiene): first – sixth grade.
  • Growth measurement and education: first grade.

RNM

Kaplan Medical Center
Rehovot
01.2015 - 07.2016
  • Labor and delivery, triage, high-risk antepartum, postpartum recovery, obstetrics operating room, initial neonatal care and stabilization, precept midwifery, medical students.

Laboratory instructor

Rutgers College of Nursing
Newark, NJ
02.2013 - 06.2013
  • Part-time lecturer appointment
  • Medical surgical simulation assessment of clinical competencies, BSN

Doctoral teaching fellow/clinical nursing faculty

Rutgers College of Nursing
Newark, NJ
09.2012 - 02.2013
  • Maternal child, leadership and management, hospital assessment of clinical competencies, BSN

RNM

Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center
Jerusalem
09.2011 - 12.2011
  • Labor and Delivery, Obstetrical Triage

RNM

Bikur Cholim Hospital
Jerusalem
07.2005 - 10.2011
  • Labor and delivery, triage, precept US medical and nursing students, Women’s Health clinic: triage, prenatal, gynecology, postpartum and antepartum

RN

Bikur Cholim Hospital
Jerusalem
08.2008 - 02.2009
  • Assistant nurse manager postpartum/early pregnancy triage
  • Orient new nursing staff, introduce primary precepts.
  • Women’s health clinic: Prenatal, Infertility

Medical Research Assistant, RN

Hadassah Medical Center Department of OBGYN
Jerusalem
11.2003 - 09.2006
  • Ein Kerem
  • MACS Trial
  • Factors influencing tolerance maternal-fetal interface
  • Lupus, autoimmune diseases pregnancy
  • Desire vaginal birth versus elective cesarean section
  • Mesenchyme, stem cells
  • Evaluation obstetric services Israel
  • Causes urinary tract infection labor, early postpartum
  • Sleep disturbances women
  • Macrolide use pregnancy
  • Motivations, educational needs breastfeeding premature infants
  • Coordination, implementation, and follow-up participants, neonates
  • Consent, education, recruitment interviews, medical history, study drug, sample collection, preparation, experiment
  • Medical records and literature searches data entry, correspondence, research meetings, translation, editing manuscripts
  • Compiling 600 medical journal articles
  • Sharett, Strauss institutes, Ministry of Health.

CNM

Mercy OBGYN PC
White Plains, Bronx, New York
12.2000 - 10.2001
  • Saint Agnes Hospital: independent coverage, MD back-up labor and delivery, triage twenty-four- hour call, first assist, precept midwifery, medical students.
  • Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center: three prenatal, family planning, gynecology, and postpartum clinics.

CNM

Low Country Women's Specialists
North Charleston, South Carolina
06.1999 - 07.2000
  • Independent hospital coverage, MD back-up labor and delivery, triage, Trident, Summerville Regional Medical Centers 24 hour weekly, 72- hour monthly call, first assist, prenatal, family planning, gynecology, postpartum three offices.

CNM

North Central Bronx Hospital
Bronx, NY
12.1998 - 04.1999
  • Labor and delivery, triage, private case load in clinic.

RN

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
05.1995 - 08.1996
  • Labor and Delivery, Antepartum, Postpartum, Nursery

RN

Beaufort Memorial Hospital
Beaufort, South Carolina
03.1994 - 04.1995
  • Postpartum, Antepartum

RN

Hospital Center at Orange
Orange, NJ
01.1993 - 07.1993
  • Labor and Delivery, Nursery, Postpartum

Education

Israel Ministry of Health License - to practice in the newborn profession

10.2025

Midwifery Refresher certificate - theory and practice

Midwifery Institute of Philadelphia University
01.2015

Israel Ministry of Health RN and RNM Certificates - theory and practice

Hadassah Medical Center
Ein Kerem Jerusalem
06.2005

Master of Science, Nursing - Midwifery Program certificate

Columbia University School of Nursing
New York, NY
10.1998

Bachelor of Science in Nursing - undefined

Columbia University School of Nursing
New York, NY
02.1993

Bachelor of Arts in Social Science - childbirth in the context of anthropology and public health

Friends World College
Huntington, NY, Jerusalem Israel, Machakos, Kenya
05.1990

Skills

  • Medication and IV administration
  • Direct patient care
  • Patient assessments
  • Strong clinical judgment
  • Patient and family advocacy
  • Precepting
  • Team coordination
  • Complex Problem-solving
  • Emergency response
  • Emergency procedures
  • Fluent in Hebrew

Accomplishments

    Volunteer, academic courses, and other work:

    Caregiver and Primary Caregiver for my mom around the clock in home and hospital, NJ (2020, 2023).

    Rutger's University School of Nursing PhD program, NJ (2012 -2017)

    Givat Ram biology, genetics, Jerusalem (2009-2010)

    Magen David Adom Emergency Medicine, Jerusalem (2006-2007)

    Hadassah Ein Kerem, labor and delivery, Jerusalem (1988-1989)

    Pumwani Maternity Hospital labor and delivery, Nairobi (1985-1986)

    Timian's Maple Farms, NY (1985)

    Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha (1983-1984)

    Professional articles, medical research, field research, and literary contributions (1985-2023):

    MACS International Randomized Controlled Trial, Jerusalem.The Lancet (2008)

    Margin Probe 2/0, Prospective, pivotal study, Jerusalem. (2023)

    US Veterans with postraumatic stress disorder require service dogs, PhD work, Newark, NJ (2017)

    The DRC Midwifery refresher course curriculum, PhD work, Newark, NJ (2015)

    Perceived support needs of single pregnant women, South Carolina (1995).

    The Woman Who gives birth in Jerusalem copyright (1990)

    Ethnographies, Jerusalem (1988-1989)

    Jewish Law and Medicine essays, Jerusalem (1988-1989)

    Birthing ways among Saumburu, Aba Luhya, Turkana, Luo peoples of Kenya, ethnographies (1985 -1986)

Affiliations

American Midwifery Certification Board (1998-2029)

New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners (2015-present)

New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (1993-present)

New York State Education Department (1993 - present)

Israel Ministry of Health (2004-present)

Certification

  • Good Clinical Practice GCP, September, 2021
  • American Midwifery Certification Board (1998-2029)
  • CPR (2024)
  • Neonatal Resuscitation NRP (2016)
  • Electronic Fetal Monitoring (2020)
  • Cambridge Who’s Who Honored Member (2008)
  • New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, CNM (2015- present)
  • New Jersey Division Of Consumer Affairs, RN (1993-present)
  • New York State Education Department, RN (1993-present)
  • New York State Education Department CNM (1998-present)
  • Israel Ministry of Health RN (2004-present)
  • Israel Ministry of Health RNM (2005-present).

Languages

Spanish
Professional Working
French
Professional Working
Arabic
Limited Working
English
Native or Bilingual
Hebrew
Full Professional
Swahili
Limited Working

Timeline

Full-time nursing faculty

Eastwick College
01.2025 - 01.2026

Part-time nursing faculty

Merit Technical Institute
04.2024 - 09.2025

Volunteer RN for mom

Primary caregiver home and hospital
03.2023 - 08.2023

Medical Research Coordinator, RN

Hadassah Medical Center Department of Breast Surgery
11.2021 - 02.2023

Nurse Auditor

ORS Company (Ministry of Welfare)
10.2021

RN

Eminent Consulting, (LLC, Tennessee)
06.2020 - 09.2020

Volunteer RN for mom

Caregiver in Family Home
04.2020 - 07.2021

RN

Mediton Company
03.2020 - 04.2020

RN

Bikur Rofe Emergency Medicine
02.2020 - 03.2020

RN

Alexander Muss American High School
10.2019

School nurse

Natali Company (Ministry of Health)
08.2018 - 02.2019

School nurse

Femi premium Company (Ministry of Health)
02.2018 - 06.2018

RNM

Kaplan Medical Center
01.2015 - 07.2016

Laboratory instructor

Rutgers College of Nursing
02.2013 - 06.2013

Doctoral teaching fellow/clinical nursing faculty

Rutgers College of Nursing
09.2012 - 02.2013

RNM

Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center
09.2011 - 12.2011

RN

Bikur Cholim Hospital
08.2008 - 02.2009

RNM

Bikur Cholim Hospital
07.2005 - 10.2011

Medical Research Assistant, RN

Hadassah Medical Center Department of OBGYN
11.2003 - 09.2006

CNM

Mercy OBGYN PC
12.2000 - 10.2001

CNM

Low Country Women's Specialists
06.1999 - 07.2000

CNM

North Central Bronx Hospital
12.1998 - 04.1999

RN

Medical University of South Carolina
05.1995 - 08.1996

RN

Beaufort Memorial Hospital
03.1994 - 04.1995

RN

Hospital Center at Orange
01.1993 - 07.1993

RN

Macabi HMO

Midwifery Refresher certificate - theory and practice

Midwifery Institute of Philadelphia University

Master of Science, Nursing - Midwifery Program certificate

Columbia University School of Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing - undefined

Columbia University School of Nursing

Bachelor of Arts in Social Science - childbirth in the context of anthropology and public health

Friends World College

Israel Ministry of Health License - to practice in the newborn profession

Israel Ministry of Health RN and RNM Certificates - theory and practice

Hadassah Medical Center

PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES AND LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS (1985 - 2017)

  • US Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Require Service Dogs, Newark, NJ 2017
  • The DRC Midwifery Refresher Course Curriculum, Newark, NJ 2015
  • D. Combs IN Murphy K. Hannah M.E. et al. (Dec. 2008) Multiple Courses of Antenatal Corticosteroids for Preterm Birth (MACS): A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  • Perceived Support Needs of Single Pregnant Women: A Pilot Study, Charleston, SC, 1995
  • The Woman Who Gives Birth in Jerusalem: A Prenatal Study of Cultural Responses Towards the Presence of a Supportive Birth Companion, 1990, Library of Congress
  • Ethnography of A Moshav, Halacha and Medicine Essays, Culture of a Delivery Room, Jerusalem, Israel 1988-1989
  • Birthing Ways among Samburu, Turkana, Aba Luhya, Luo Peoples of Kenya, Traditional Birth Attendants, and Midwives in Rural Clinics and Hospitals, Culture of a Delivery Room, Nairobi, Kenya, 1985-1986.

ACADEMIC COURSES, VOLUNTEER, AND OTHER WORK

  • Rutgers University School of Nursing, September 2016 – August 2017, September 2014 – March 2015, September-December, 2012
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram October, 2009 – February 2010, February – July 2010
  • Dani's Bouquets, 2007
  • Emergency Medicine, December 2006-May 2007, Jerusalem
  • Volunteer: Hadassah Ein Kerem November 1988-January 1989, Labor and Delivery
  • Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, December 1985- January, March, 1986, Labor and Delivery, postpartum, newborn
  • Timian's Maple Farms,Utica, NY January-March 1985, farm animals, maple sugaring
  • Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha, Petach Tikva, Israel, August 1983-January 1984, children's home.

Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)

Fluent Hebrew, proficient French, Conversant Spanish, limited Arabic and Ki-Swahili

Extensive research and writing experience

love animals, plants, drawing, sports, music, and creating art

project Dani's Bouquets small business (2007)

Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)

Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008).

Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)

Cambridge Who's Who Honored Member (2008)