Julie Lynn Townsend

Background

Townsend, Julie Lynn was born on November 18, 1950 in Freeport, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Jack a Nortridge and Evelyn (Hughes) Teuscher.

Education

Diploma, St. Anthony School Nursing, Rockford, Illinois, 1971; Bachelor of science in nursing cum laude, U. Missouri, 1980; MSN summa cum laude, U. Missouri, 1982.

Career

Staff nurse medical-surgical unit, St. Anthony's Hospital, Rockford, 1971-1972; charge nurse emergency room, Doctor's Hospital, Carbondale, Illinois, 1972-1973; school nurse School Technology Careers, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1973-1974; staff nurse, Grant County Public Health Department, Lancaster, Wisconsin, 1975; staff nurse, Unified Counseling Superior vena cava syndrome, Lancaster, 1976; head nurse Intensive Care Unit, then nursing supervisor, Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, 1976-1978, 79; staff nurse Medical Center, then teaching assistant, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1976-1978, 80-81; staff nurse pediatrics unit, Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, 1981-1982; staff nurse pediatrics unit, LaCrosse (Wisconsin) Lutheran Hospital, 1983-1988; staff nurse on call home health unit, postpartum unit, University Medical Center, Tucson, 1988-1989; maternal child manager, University Medical Center Home Health, Tucson, since 1989. Lecturer American Nursing Review, Hackensack, New Jersey, since 1986. Assistant professor nursingViterbo College, LaCrosse, since 1982.

Instructor nursing U. Arizona, Tucson, 1988-1989. Board directors Education Program for Homeless Women and Children, Tucson;consultant Wisconsin Department Health Maternal-Child division, local schools, National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1991. Presenter workshops, professional conference programs.

Achievements

• Julie Lynn Townsend has been listed as a noteworthy Home health nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vice-president PTO, 1985. Church youth teacher, 1985, 86. Cub pack leader local Boy Scouts American, 1986, 87.

Cadette troop leader local Girl Scouts United States, since 1986. Member ANA (certified pediatrics nurse), National League Nursing, Arizona Nurses'Association, Sigma Theta Tau.

Interests

• Avocations: hiking, jogging, reading, traveling.

Connections

Married Ward B. Townsend, August 21, 1971. Children: Sarah, Andrew.

Father:

Jack a Nortridge Teuscher

Mother:

Evelyn (Hughes) Teuscher

Spouse:

Ward B. Townsend

child:

Sarah Townsend

child:

Andrew Townsend