Karen Ann Phillips

Background

Phillips, Karen Ann was born on July 6, 1944 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of G.W. and Verna W. (Cassidy) Lamproplos.

Education

Student, Lake Erie College for Women, 1962-1963; student, Allegany Community College, 1970-1976; student, University Pittsburgh, 1978-1979; student, Ohio U., Lancaster, 1990; diploma, Memorial Hospital School Nursing, Cumberland, Maryland., 1967.

Career

Staff nurse, pediatrics and visiting nurse home health care, Memorial Hospital, 1967, 68-76; staff nurse medical-surgical unit, Cape Fear Hospital, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1967-1968; assistant coordinator home care department, West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1978-1979; visiting nurse, Westmoreland Home Health Care Agency, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1976-1978; staff pool nurse, staff nurse neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit,, Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg, 1979-1980; coordinator utilization review, Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg, 1980; staff nurse renal transplant unit and rehabilitation center, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, 1980, 82-89; director nursing, Logan (Ohio) Health Care Center, 1980-1981; nursing supervisor, Oakfield Convalescent Center, Columbus, 1981-1982; staff nurse IV, Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster, Ohio., 1989-1993; patient representative emergency department, Fairfield Medical Center, Lancaster, Ohio., since 1993. Instructor geriatric nursing aid Tri-County Joint Vocational School, Nelsonville, Ohio, 1981. Clerk The Toy Store, Worthington, Ohio, 1984-1986.

Sales representative Irwin & Associations, Bremen, Ohio, 1985-1987.

Achievements

• Karen Ann Phillips has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatric-mental health nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy, Ohio Society Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (board directors 1997-1998), International Critical Incident StressFound., Daus. Union Veterans Civil War.

Interests

• Avocations: reading, films, genealogy, collecting teddy bears, dolls, videos, movie-related books.

Connections

Married Thomas D. Phillips, May1, 1982. Children: Jody Lynn Nikirk, Joseph D. Nikirk III.

Father:

G.W. Lamproplos

Mother:

Verna W. (Cassidy) Lamproplos

Spouse:

Thomas D. Phillips

child:

Jody Lynn Nikirk Phillips

child:

Joseph D. Nikirk III Phillips