Experience

• The Methodist Hospital

  Associate Chief Nurse for Education

  Vivian worked at The Methodist Hospital as a Associate Chief Nurse for Education

• The Menninger Clinic

  Coordinator, Veteran's Transition Program

  Developed and teach a psycho-educational program to Veteran's and their families that assists them in managing strong emotions and stress, increasing self-motivation, and scripting out difficult messages to decrease communication conflicts. The program is sponsored by The Menninger Clinic and is supported by Mental Health America, Lone Star Veteran's Association, The Worklife Institute, and the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Houston. The program was built in collaboration with Dr. Michael Cofield and his partner, Mary Ann Zimmerman who developed the "Road Map to Peace of Mind", a simple cognitive behavioral management strategy to decrease and manage stress. Classes have been provided to Veteran's in need of residential transitional arrangements through a variety of community partnerships with the Houston VAMC and to Veteran's from the general public who are in search of ways to transition from military to civilian life.

• Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center

  Nurse Educator

  Developing nursing education programs for a start-up hospital and ambulatory surgical center in Houston. Designing orientation and continuing education programs, developing a zero-based budget for education, establishing policies and procedures and establishing job descriptions for the nursing education deparment. Collaborating with the Chief Nursing Officer and the Commissioning Team on the establishment of an Ambulatory Surgery Center including work on policies and procedures, job descriptions, staffing plans, orientation and continuing educaiton needs, patient education requirements, and quality peformance indicators.
  
  Position was eliminated after the partnership with CHI/St. Luke's resulted in the clinics being kept separate under the Baylor College of Medicine. The outpatient clinics did not have a need for a permanent nurse educator.

• Prairie View A&M University

  Associate Professor of Nursing

  Returned to full-time teaching in the fall, 2014 as an Associate Professor in the new Doctorate of Nursing Practice program that began in January, 2014 in a strategically placed College of Nursing in the Texas Medical Center. Currently, there are 12 students enrolled and 12 students who have graduated with a DNP. Teach classes in leadership, theory, and program and curriculum design in a hybrid, online format. Use Moodle and WebEx to teach, utilizing more than 15 years of experience teaching in online platforms. Developed work in leadership with the World Café, published an article on the process in the Journal of Nursing Education. Created new education modules for leadership focused on the use of Theory U, a change theory developed by a professor at MIT.

• Coleman College for Health Sciences, HCC

  Nursing Program Director

  Planned, coordinated, organized, controlled, and directed the functions of the department of associate degree nursing education according to the rules and regulations set forth by the Texas Board of Nursing.