Lorraine Elder Chapdelaine

Background

Chapdelaine, Lorraine Elder was born on September 29, 1939 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Daughter of Alexander Lindsay Elder and Evelyn Emma Flower Bellini.

Education

Diploma, Massachusetts Genl. Hospital School Nursing, Boston, 1961; Bachelor of Science cum laude, Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1990; Master of Science, U. Massachusetts, 1992.

Career

Staff nurse, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1961-1967; staff nurse, Holyoke (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1967-1974; health service supervisor, Mountain View Nursing Home, Montgomery, Massachusetts, 1979-1985; staff nurse, supervisor, Port Charlotte (Florida) Care Center, 1985-1987; staff nurse, Holyoke Geriatric Authority, 1987-1989; temporary staff, O'Connell Professional Svc., Holyoke, 1987-1990; assistant professor clinical nursing, U. Massachusetts School Nursing, Amherst, 1992-1993; clinical specialist/wound consultant, Hampshire County Visiting Nurse Association, Northampton, 1992-1996; clinical specialist, visiting staff, Visiting Nurse Superior vena cava syndrome Western Massachusetts, Holyoke, Massachusetts, since 1989; grant writer, administrator, Innovative Nurse-Managed Well Elderly Foot Clinics, since 1993; private practice in nursing foot care, since 1997. Lecturer in field; initiator, administrator grant-funded nurse-managed footclinics for elderly poor. Principal The Foot Care Nurse, Holyoke, since 1997.

Achievements

• Lorraine Elder Chapdelaine has been listed as a noteworthy Gerontology nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member National Gerontological Nurses Association, Advanced Practice Gerontological Nurses Interest Group, Order Eastern Star (Worthy Matron 1981, 84), Sigma Theta Tau.

Interests

• Avocations: music, gardening.

Connections

Married BernardGrant Dostal, May 15, 1960 (divorced November 1972). Children: Dana Arthur Dostal, Jeffrey Alexander Dostal.

Father:

Alexander Lindsay Elder

Mother:

Evelyn Emma Flower Bellini

Spouse:

BernardGrant Dostal

child:

Jeffrey Alexander Dostal Chapdelaine

child:

Dana Arthur Dostal Chapdelaine