Dr. Ramesh “ROM” Upadhyaya has over 35 years of experience in healthcare, beginning with his first position as a combat medic in the U.S. Army. Ram is board certified as a family nurse practitioner (FNP), rehabilitation nurse (CRRN) and Correctional Healthcare Professional (CCHP). Ram was recently hired to lead the new PN program at Alamance Community College (ACC) in Graham, NC. He has been an adjunct instructor in nursing there at ACC for about 10 years, teaching lecture, lab, and clinical wherever needed in the ADN program. He has been a State of NC employee for 18 years. Prior to coming to ACC, he was a nurse executive for the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (Prisons). Before transferring to the prison system, he worked as a Facility Survey Consultant for the NC Department of Health and Human Services, investigating healthcare organizations for compliance with state and federal regulations.  Prior to that, he was a Clinical Instructor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Ram holds a bachelor's and a master’s degree in Nursing from UNCG, a Master’s in Business Administration, a post-Master’s certificate in Education, and a doctorate in nursing practice from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC.

 

 

Jennifer Bailey, DNP, RN, CRRN, NE-BC has been a registered nurse for 27 years with a variety of backgrounds including critical care, medical surgical, and mostly rehabilitation nursing.  Jennifer currently serves as co-President of the NC chapter of ARN.  She also serves as the nursing director for a 49 licensed bed inpatient rehabilitation facility and department director for a 50 bed medical surgical department at Cone Health in Greensboro, NC.  Jennifer has been an active member of the education committee of the NC chapter of ARN along with being a member of the nomination leadership development committee of ARN for the last two years.  She has presented at the state and regional ARN conferences in the past.  In her many years of leadership within rehabilitation nursing, Jennifer has improved patient care by reducing falls by 33% in 6 months, decreased CAUTIs by 67%, decreased length of stay and improved discharges to the community to the 96 percentile within 1 year.  Her most cherished achievement is her retention and growth efforts of the nursing rehabilitation staff, where she has supported growth of 10 LPNs to RNs, a RN to FNP, 2 MSN graduates, and 4 RNs advance in clinical ladder program. 

 

 

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