ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MARTHA BREWER HAUSER

EDUCATION:           

Aug. 1975 to                University of North Carolina

May 1977                    Chapel Hill , North Carolina

                                    Received Master of Science in Nursing (Medical-Surgical).

                                    Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing.                     

August 1966 to             Lenior Rhyne University

May 1970                    Hickory , North Carolina

                                    Received B.S. Degree in Nursing, May, 1970. Member of N.C. Student Nurses Association and Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. Expenses partially financed through grant-in-aid and part time work as a nursing assistant at N.C. Baptist Hospital , Winston-Salem , North Carolina and Grace Hospital , Morganton , North Carolina .

EXPERIENCE:          

• Compliance coordinator, Hospice of Iredell County, Inc, .

• Director of Nursing Services, Hospice of Iredell County, Inc\

• Director of Volunteer Services, Hospice of Iredell County, Inc,

• Relief  nurse at ASMO, Statesville , North Carolina . 

• Davis Medical Center, Chief Nursing Officer, nursing supervisor, Director of Inservice Education, Staff nurse on Medical-Surgical Unit

• Staff nurse on Pediatrics and medical units, Grace Hospital , Morganton , North Carolina .

ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Past Member of North Carolina Organization of Nurse Executives, District III 

• Past Member, North Carolina Foothills Society of Nursing Service Administrators - Chairperson, 1980-1981

•  Past Member, American Organization of Nurse Executives.

• Past Member, American Nurses Association; North Carolina Nurses Association, District secretary, 1974-1975.

•   Appointed to Iredell County Board of Health 1984-1986. Re-appointed 1987-1989, 1990-1992.

• Past member of Iredell County Home Health Advisory Council, 1974-77.

• Past member, Board of Directors for Catawba Valley Lung Association 1979-1982.

•  Past Board Member, Iredell County Rape and Abuse Prevention Group, 1978-1979.

•  Past member, Health Occupations Advisory Committee of Iredell County Schools, Chair, 1987-1988

• Member, Mitchell Community University RN Advisory Committee,   

•  Past Member, Northwest Area Health Education Nursing Advisory Committee 1982-1985, 1996.

• Member of the Iredell Home Health Advisory Committee,

• Member of the Gentiva Home Health Advisory Committee

• Member of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association

• Past Member, Altrusa International and Statesville Altrusa Club

• Past Board Member, Hospice of Iredell County

• Past member, Statesville Business and Professional Women's Club.

PUBLICATION:         "The Effect of Nursing Intervention of Stress Factors Perceived by Patients in a Coronary Care Unit", M. Hoffman, RN, MSN, S. Donckers, RN, MSN, and M. Hauser, RN, MSN, C.V. Mosby, Heart and Lung, Volume 7, No. 5, September-October, 1978.

ACHIEVEMENTS:     Receipt of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Certification, from National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses, valid until December 31, 2008                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                     Receipt of Nursing Administration, Advanced Certification from American Nurses Association, Commission of Nursing, January 1982. Recertified January 1987, January 1992, January,1997, January, 2002,- December 31,2006 .

                                    Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, National Honor Society of Nursing, February 1977.

                                    Received Boss of The Year Award, May, 1986, from American Business Women's Association, Fort Dobbs Chapter.

                                    Received Graduate Executive Fellow Status, September 1995, through the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.