Linda Mary Bertino

Background

Bertino, Linda Mary was born on June 9, 1951 in Port Chester, New York, United States. Daughter of Frank Peter and Doris Margaret (Garfield) Sciarrillo.

Education

AS in Nursing, Norwalk (Connecticut) Community College, 1972; Bachelor of science in nursing, U. North Florida, 1987; postgraduate, University Texas, Arlington, since 1988.

Career

Staff nurse, various acute and extended care facilities, Connecticut, 1972-1973, 75-83; staff nurse, supervisor, various acute and extended care facilities, Tallahassee, 1973-1975; assistant DON, Florida Christian Health Center, Jacksonville, 1978-1980; nurse perinatal high risk program liason, State of Florida Children's Medical Superior vena cava syndrome, Jacksonville, 1981-1983; graduate research assistant, Texas Christian U., Fort Worth, 1989-1990; field nurse, Kimberly Quality Care, Arlington, since 1990; rehabilitation coordinator, nurse, CliniCare Home Health, Arlington, 1991-1992. Presenter in field; instructor CPR, Duval County Community School Program and American Heart association, 1977-1980. Delegate Living well with Lupus Symposium, Atlanta, 1985.

Achievements

• Linda Mary Bertino has been listed as a noteworthy Rehabilitation nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors North Florida Lupus Foundation, Jacksonville, 1984-1987. Member folk choir St. Joseph's Catholic Church, since 1986. Vice president University Hospital Spinal Cord Injury Association, Jacksonville, 1987-1988.

Active Arthritis Foundation, Fort Worth, Dallas, Dallas Lupus Foundation. Volunteer Tarrant County Multiple Sclerosis Association, Fort Worth, since 1990. Organizer chronic illness support group, Fort Worth, 1989.

Member ANA, American Society Pain Management Nurses, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, American Holistic Nurses Association, National Rehabilitation Association, American Association Spinal Cord Injury Nurses, Biofeedback Society Texas, Association Rehabilitation Nurses (chairman pain special interest county 1989-1992, organizer physically challenged nurses task force since 1989), Biofeedback Society American, N.E. Texas Association Rehabilitation Nurses, Florida Association Rehabilitation Nurses, Florida Nurses Association (scholar district II, 1990), Sigma Theta Tau.

Interests

• Avocations: showing purebred dogs, photography, cross-stitch, volunteering.

Connections

Father:

Frank Peter Sciarrillo

Mother:

Doris Margaret (Garfield) Sciarrillo