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<span class="user-name "><span class="user-name__text">Gerald (Jerry) Smelko</span></span>

Gerald (Jerry) Smelko
RN, DNP Student needs clinical site & preceptor. Offer honorarium.

Durham, NC

Specialties

Family, Acute Care, Adult, Psychiatric / Mental Health

Clinical Subspecialties

Radiology


Details

Professional Achievements:

SNAPSHOT RESUME-from most recent education/work to the past

DNP study—completed 45 course hours and WD for help reasons before start of Capstone Project. Study on-line at Capella University

FNP study—completed 33 course hours and was in Adult l clinical when the preceptor suddenly lost her
Supervisory Physician. Changed my focus to the DNP

BSN-1992 from Aurora University. Worked over20 years as a bedside nurse in
Nurse at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC and then worked at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. Both are teaching hospitals. Left to do FNP clinical study full-time.

MS in Journalism-1984. Used training to teach journalism at Martin L. King High school in Chicago and as the school paper advisor.

BS in English and business education. Taught high school classes in both subject.

More detailed information about work experiences in both education and nursing and outside
Interests see my LinkedIn profile.

• Gerald F. Smelko

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Favorite Thing About My Profession:

SNAPSHOT RESUME-from most recent education/work to the past

DNP study—completed 45 course hours and WD for help reasons before start of Capstone Project. Study on-line at Capella University

FNP study—completed 33 course hours and was in Adult l clinical when the preceptor suddenly lost her
Supervisory Physician. Changed my focus to the DNP

BSN-1992 from Aurora University. Worked over20 years as a bedside nurse in
Nurse at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC and then worked at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. Both are teaching hospitals. Left to do FNP clinical study full-time.

MS in Journalism-1984. Used training to teach journalism at Martin L. King High school in Chicago and as the school paper advisor.

BS in English and business education. Taught high school classes in both subject.

More detailed information about work experiences in both education and nursing and outside
Interests see my LinkedIn profile.

• Gerald F. Smelko


Work History

Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC
Clinical Nurse III — March, 2000

Education History

Catholic University of America
August, 2013 to August, 2016 (Expected graduation)


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