Personal Information
Jocelyn Corrao has been part of the Nursing Department since June 2009, and has implemented Simulation Learning at the Los Angeles Center. She is an instructor for Health Assessment, Pharmacology, Foundations of Nursing and Medical-Surgical and Leadership in Nursing courses. Ms. Corrao earned a Master in Business Administration from Cardinal Stritch University with a BS in Nursing and BS in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is Board Certified in Gerontological Nursing since 2005.
She has been involved in direct care of patients and their families working in multiple inpatient and outpatient service areas which included Emergency, Orthopedics, Neurology, Medical-Surgical units, Cardiac stress testing, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Telephone Triage and Administrative management of outpatient clinics in a pediatric teaching institution over the last 25 years. She has served as a mentor for many newly licensed graduate nurses and nursing students and participated in numerous committee positions as well as serving as Resource nurse for Geriatric, Diabetes and End-Of-Life issues.
Ms. Corrao is a member of the National League of Nurses, Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, National Gerontological Nursing Association, International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) and The Chair Academy.
Most Recent Presentations
Presenter-Faculty Committee
National University
"Pitchin' NICHE"
San Diego, CA May 2009
Presenter-Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Orthopedic-Neurology Unit
"Current Topics of Diabetes Management"
Waukesha, WI Winter 2007
Presenter-Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Orthopedic-Neurology Unit
"Crisis Management for New Nurses in End-Of-Life care"
Waukesha, WI Winter 2007
Presenter-3rd Annual NICHE Conference
"Dementia, Delirium, Depression"
Waukesha, WI May 2007
Co-Presenter-NICHE Leadership Conference
"GRN Model"
New York, NY February 2007
Presenter-Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Orthopedic-Neurology Unit
"End-Of-Life Care
Waukesha, WI Spring 2006
Doctoral studies, Education, NOVA Southeastern University, Florida
Master of Science in Nursing and Masters in Business Administration, Thomas Edison State College - Cardinal Stritch University, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Board Certified in Gerontological Nursing, American Nurses Credentialing Center