-: Well, my name is Doctor Jeanette Lupinacci.
I am from the greater Danbury community area.
Currently working at Western Connecticut
State University, in the Department of Nursing.
I am a, undergraduate coordinator in our nursing program,
so what that means is that I basically
help to place students in the clinical setting.
Also, work closely with the department chair
in addressing any student issues or concerns
that they might have, either in class or in clinical.
As a coordinator helping to secure like
clinical spots in various clinical agencies
that are throughout the state of Connecticut,
and where we have contracts.
Work on developing some of those relationships,
trying to get some new clinical sites if we can,
asking for contracts, making sure, another role
that I do too is to make sure that students
are abiding by the rules and regulations
of being able to go to clinical.
So, making sure that background checks
have been completed, health requirements
have been fulfilled.
I work as an associate professor at WestConn.
I teach primarily in the undergraduate program,
but also a little bit in the graduate program.
So, you know, we're teaching them the basics.
How to develop relationship with the patient,
how to do basic care with patients,
how to start planning care for them
as far as treatment plans, or working closely
with the physician and why that's important,
and how to collaborate with multidisciplinary types
of team members, physical therapists,
occupational therapists, speech therapists,
and that kind of stuff.
And we're showing them the didactic portion,
but then also embedding the clinical portion
into it so that they get to kind of practice.