CINDY A. HELKENN RN 1645 S. Summit • Newcastle, Wyoming 82701 • cindyahelkenn@gmail.com • 605-233-0484 Wyoming Registered Nurse
License number: 37098
Expiration: 12/31/2018
PROFESSIONAL EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Legal Nurse Consultant / Nurse Analyst – Owner Juris Legal Nurse Consultants, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri, November 2009 – Present Legal Nurse Consultant – General Liability and Personal Injury ReMed Casualty Consultants, Inc., Prairie Village, Kansas, May 2010 – November 2010 Executive Director Vitas Innovative Hospice, Kansas City Missouri and Kansas, August 2007 - February 2008 General Manager OptionCare Home Infusion, Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, February 2006 - September 2007 Account Executive – Specialty Plasma Pharmaceuticals Division Talecris Biotherapeutics, Midwest Region, October 2004 - February 2006 Area Clinical Director Hemophilia Resources of America, Midwest Region, October 2002 – October 2004 Area Branch Manager Medical Staffing Network, St. Louis, Missouri, August 2001 – August 2002 Director of Nursing and New Business Development Express Scripts Infusion Services, St. Louis/Columbia, Missouri, April 1998 - March 2001 PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Cenertpoint Medical Center – Kansas City, 2010 – 2011 Hired from agency contract (2008-2010) to hospital staff as full time hospital and emergency room case manager All About Staffing – Kansas City, 2007 – May 2010 Staffing of emergency departments for HCA hospitals as needed in Kansas City. Contracted full time at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, Missouri, October 2008 – October 2010 Kansas University Medical Center – Kansas City, 2008 Full time staff registered nurse - emergency department Cascade Healthcare Staffing – Kansas City, 2004-2007 Agency staffing for a variety of hospitals; staffing of emergency department, medical surgical units, telemetry and progressive care units Medical Staffing Network – Kansas City, 2004
Agency staffing for a variety of hospitals; staffing of emergency department, medical surgical units, telemetry and progressive care units DePaul Health System Nursing Registry – St. Louis, 1998-2001 Staffing of emergency room for three area hospitals within the system, to include, DePaul Hospital, St. Joseph West and St. Joseph Health Center IVTX/Express Scripts Infusion Services – St. Louis, 1998-2001 Home infusion for pediatric and adult patients with chronic illness; specialized in hemophilia, immune deficiency management and infectious disease. Also experience with infusion of some chemotherapy and post chemotherapy home IV management StarMed Health Personnel – St. Louis, 1994-1998 Agency staffing for a variety of hospitals; staffing of emergency department, medical surgical units, telemetry and progressive care units St. Anthony’s Hospital – St. Louis, 1993 – 1994 Staffing of telemetry unit and step-down telemetry and occasionally in the emergency department PUBLICATIONS: Competency and Education Requirements: Perspective of the Rural Emergency Nurse, Journal of Emergency Nursing, January 2011, Elsevier Publishing, Inc., doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2010.06.022 MILITARY EXPERIENCE United States Army Reserve, November 1990 – November 1998, 71L – Administration and 91C – Licensed Practical Nursing, Honorable Discharge. Rank at discharge: E-4. EDUCATION Certified Legal Nurse Consultant 1999-2004 Medical Legal Consulting Institute, St. Louis, MO Associate of Science, Nursing 1998 – Sanford Brown College, St. Louis, MO Licensed Practical Nursing 1993 – WAVTS, Washington, MO PUBLIC SPEAKING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION PRESENTATIONS Guest Speaker, October, 2011: Juris Education Resource and Knowledge for nurses (JERK) Annual Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, CEU Topic: Retrospective Billings Analysis DEPOSITION AND TESTIFYING EXPERIENCE 2007: Deposed for an employee related complaint regarding wrongful termination for claimed health related issues, Executive Director, Vitas Innovative Hospice. Outcome: Favorable to Vitas. 2011: Thajuana Nash, as Administratrix of The Estate of Michael Nash, Deceased Husband, and Survivors plaintiff, vs. Forrest city Arkansas Hospital Company, LLC, d/b/a Forrest City Medical Center; and Candace Shafer-Franks, M.D. and General Emergency Medical Services, L.L.C., defendants; Case no. CV-2007-149-1; Case tried and settled prior to verdict.