Background
Zapatochny-Rufo, Rebecca Jo was born on May 21, 1963 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joseph Bob and Betty Rebecca (Erwin) Zapatochny-Rufo.
Zapatochny-Rufo, Rebecca Jo was born on May 21, 1963 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joseph Bob and Betty Rebecca (Erwin) Zapatochny-Rufo.
Nursing Diploma, Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1984. Bachelor of science in nursing, University Pittsburgh, 1988. MSN, University Pittsburgh, 1992.
Doctoral candidate, Rush University, Chicago, 1995.
Staff nurse intensive and coronary trauma unit, Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, since 1984;
guest lecturer trauma nurse course, Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, since 1988;
critical care clinical nurse specialist, Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, since 1994. Cardiovascular technician, clinical instructor Mount Aloysius College, Cresson, Pennsylvania, since 1989, nursing instructor, 1991. Staff nurse Cardiac Care Unit, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1991.
Guest lecturer Cambria-Somerset Council Educators, Johnstown, since 1989, United States Naval Reserve, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, since 1990. Nurse consultant, 1994.
The commitment of individual Christians to work for social and political change should be recognized as a fully legitimate form of Christian discipleship.
All persons need the ministry of the Church in their struggles for human fulfillment, as well as the spiritual and emotional care of a fellowship that enables reconciling relationships with God, with others, and with self.
Member of American Association of Colleges of Nursing (certified, program director 1989-1990), American Trauma Society, Society Trauma Nurses, Sigma theta Tau (Eta chapter).