Background
Plourde, Kathleen Ellen was born on August 17, 1933 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Daughter of William Howard and Rosina Maria (Hromadka) Gibbons.
Plourde, Kathleen Ellen was born on August 17, 1933 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Daughter of William Howard and Rosina Maria (Hromadka) Gibbons.
Bachelor of science in nursing, Wagner College, 1954. MSN, St. John's University, Jamaica, New York, 1960.
Public health nurse, Visiting Nurses Association S.I., 1955-1957; public health nurse, Visiting Nurses Association Philadelphia, 1958-1959; outpatient department instructor, St. Catherine's Hospital School Nursing, Brooklyn, 1960-1961; professor nursing, Wagner College, S.I., 1967-1970; public health nurse, Visiting Nurses Association Hartford, Connecticut, 1972-1973; assistant professor nursing, Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1976-1977; psychiatric nurse, Battle Creek (Michigan) Sanatorium Hospital, 1977-1979; staff nurse area hospitals, Temporary Health Care, Detroit, 1980-1982; nursing supervisor, Community Home Care Superior vena cava syndrome, Sterling Heights, Michigan, 1983-1985; case manager, Wayne Center for Retarded, Detroit, 1985-1987; case manager, Southfield (Michigan) Rehabilitation Hospital, 1987-1988; community educator, Oakwood Hospital, Dearborn, Michigan, 1987-1988; assistant professor, U. Maine, Fort Kent, 1988-1991; nursing instructor, Manatee Vo-Technology, Bradenton, Florida, since 1993. Coordinator community health fair U. Maine, Fort Kent, 1990.
Founder Battle Creek Area Literacy Council, 1978. Member St. John Valley Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Task Force, 1988-1991. Member core committee Planned Approach to Communication Health, St. John Valley, Aroostook County, Maine, 1989-1991.
Board directors Eastern Maine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Network, Bangor, 1990-1991. Member renovation mission team Four Corners Navaho Indian School, Cortez, Colorado, summer 1987. Chair University Maine System Nurse Educators Retreat, Bar Harbor, 1991.
Member Aroostook County Cancer Committee. Member American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, Association Community Health Nursing Educators.
Married William Theodore Heil, August 25, 1957 (divorced August 1982). Children: James Christopher Heil, Christina Rose Bush. Married Kenneth Plourde, December 23, 1991.