Nurse writer · Health content
MSN, RN, Dip. ACLM
Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine · Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
I write about type 2 diabetes and metabolic health for publications and health brands that need it right and need it readable.
Patient-facing content that is clinically accurate and still sounds like a person wrote it. That is the standard I work to, because I have sat on both sides of the diagnosis.
Two published pieces, newest first. The HHF Connect piece is the same link I send in my letters of introduction.
HHF Connect · Humanity & Health Foundation
Insulin resistance can build for years before blood sugar reaches the diabetes range. This piece walks readers through five visible signs, what the evidence actually says about each one, and the simple test that settles the question. Written in plain language, cited throughout, and clear that a sign is a reason to get checked, not a diagnosis.
Read it on HHF Connect →Nurses International
A leadership piece from my own career: rising from novice nurse in the trauma ICU to hospital director, then choosing to step back when family needed me home. On excellence, balance, and why a step back does not have to be a step down. This is the healthcare leadership side of my writing.
Read it on Nurses International →HHF Connect
A second commissioned piece for HHF Connect: how the six pillars of lifestyle medicine show up in ordinary days, not just in clinic handouts.
MedReport Foundation · Accessome
First article submitted to MedReport Foundation and under review. A proposal on connected care between visits is with Accessome. I will add both here the day they publish, with links.
Diabetes is the center of the work. The rest comes from sixteen years inside hospitals, classrooms, and leadership rooms.
First · Strongest
Insulin resistance, prediabetes, diagnosis day, lifestyle change that holds, and what the numbers on a lab report actually mean for a real person.
Second
What running units and serving as a chief nursing officer teaches you about staffing, safety, culture, and why good systems beat good intentions.
Also
Food, sleep, stress, and movement, translated from the evidence into steps a busy person can actually take and keep.
Also
The bedside view: trauma ICU and ER nursing, teaching clinical students, and what keeps good nurses in the work.
I am an RN with 16 years at the bedside, in nursing education, and in nursing leadership. Most of that work was trauma ICU and emergency care. I have also served as a chief nursing officer, and I teach nursing students as an adjunct clinical instructor.
In 2018 I got the diagnosis I now write about most. I followed the standard advice, and my A1C went up and down and kept getting worse anyway. When my doctor wanted to add more medication, that was my wait a minute moment. I went after insulin resistance itself, and my A1C is back in the normal range.
That history is why editors use me for this topic. I check claims against the studies myself, I keep the language plain, and I never write a sentence for a newly diagnosed reader that I would not have wanted to read in 2018.
Disclosure, up front: I co-own Diabetes In Reverse, a diabetes education and coaching business. I disclose it in every pitch and letter I send, and I am glad to discuss how it does or does not bear on an assignment.
Email is the fastest way to reach me. Tell me the topic, the audience, and your timeline, and I will reply with whether I am the right fit and when I could start.
Writing for patients is here. My work with people who were just diagnosed lives at diabetesinreverse.com.