Background
Carter, Arlene Mae was born on October 8, 1947 in Alliance, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Louis and Alice Abigail (Davis) Zahradnicek.
Carter, Arlene Mae was born on October 8, 1947 in Alliance, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of Louis and Alice Abigail (Davis) Zahradnicek.
Bachelor of Science, Union College, 1970; Master of Science, Loma Linda U., 1974.
Staff nurse Intensive Care Unit, Cardiac Care Unit, Porter Memorial Hospital, Denver, 1970;
staff nurse, St. Anthony's Hospital, O'Neill, Nebraska, 1970-1972;
staff nurse Intensive Care Unit, Cardiac Care Unit, St. Bernadine's Hospital, San Bernardino, California, 1972-1974;
staff nurse, West Holt Memorial Hospital, Atkinson, Nebraska, 1973-1975;
staff nurse, New Testament Enloe Memorial Hospital, Chico, California, 1977-1978;
commissioned captain, United States Army, 1978;
advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, United States Army, 1986;
staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry, Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, 1978-1982;
psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, United States Army MEDDAC, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1982-1987;
clinical nurse manager residential alcohol treatment facility, 2d General Hospital, Landstuhl, Germany, 1987-1990;
clinical nurse specialist psychiatry, United States Army MEDDAC, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 1990-1992;
psychiatric case manager, Gateway to Care, Fort Polk, 1992-1993;
psychiatric case manager, United States Army MEDDAC, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1993-1996;
psychiatric case manager, United States Army MEDDAC, Fort Hood, Texas, since 1996. Instructor Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1975-1976, assistant professor nursing, 1976-1977. Mental health consultant Cherry County Hospital, Valentine, Nebraska, 1974-1975.
Presenter in field.
Member National League Nursing (certified addictions nurse), Nurses Society on Addictions, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Married William Frank Carter, October 11, 1983 (divorced 1988). Married Charles Ray Cravens, August 18, 1989.