1 ROBBIE FITTERMAN RN CCHC CLNC

7610 Canvas Art Terrace

Raleigh, North Carolina 27617
Robbie.Fitterman@gmail.com
919-931-8413 Phone

EDUCATION
Milazzo Institute, Houston, Texas 2002
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 1979

Bachelors of Science Nursing

Durham Technical Institute, Durham North Carolina 1976

Licensed Practical Nurse

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Milazzo Institute 2001-2002
Certified Childcare Health Consultant, University of North Carolina 2004

Registered Nursing licensure in NC, TX, VA, FL, GA, PA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Self Employed April 2002 –Present
1Certified Legal Nurse Consultant- Registered Nurse
1Consult with eight attorney law firms on their defendant and plaintiff cases.
Review medical negligent and malpractice cases.
Participate in depositions and preparing cases for trial.
Specialize in medical personnel and wound negligent cases in long term care.

Independent Consultant May 2005 -Present

Registered Nurse – Nurse Manager
Travel as an independent nurse consultant in hospitals and long term care facilities as Director of Nursing,
Nurse Manager and Corporate Nurse.
Consultant for hospital and nursing home chains.
Managed medical staff in five hundred bed to eighty bed hospitals.
Manage long term care staff in facilities with fifty bed facilities to two hundred bed facilities.
Manage medical staff to one hundred medical staff nurses and nursing assistants.
Managed in over thirty facilities from coast to coast United States.
Specialize in medical surgical, rehabilitation, and oncology areas.

Smart Start, Orange County North Carolina May 2004 – May 2005
Certified Childcare Health Consultant
Advanced nurse certification for thirty plus daycare centers in Orange County, North Carolina.
Conducted inspections in all daycares per state protocol.
Taught unlicensed daycare staff on enteral feedings, communicable diseases, proper hand washing, OSHA
protocols and administration of asthma inhalers and EPI pens.
Handled all case management for medically challenged children in day daycare centers.
Position ended after one year due to North Carolina statewide budget cuts.
DUKE HOSPITAL March 2001 -2004
Registered Nurse - Women’s Services
Worked in Post Partum and newborn nursery as charge nurse.
Worked with post surgical and post pregnant mothers, well newborns and ante partum patients.
There was a three hundred plus infant birthrate per month.
There were thirty labor rooms, three operating rooms, newborn nursery and fifteen post partum rooms.
Taught newborn infant care at AHEC hospitals in North Carolina.

Self Employed September 1994-March 2001

RN Wound Management Consultant
Contracted with pharmacy, medical supply and long term care corporations in southwestern United States.
Consulted with doctors, hospitals, long-term care facilities, diabetic clinics and pharmacy companies
concerning wound care patients, protocols and quality and infection control.
Handled case management for these patients referred to my wound service.
Advocated and used all manufacturers wound care products.
Taught national wound guidelines to nursing staff in hospitals, long term care facilities, home health, medical
surgical and diabetic clinics.
Conducted wound rounds with physicians and nurses on surgical patients in hospitals, long term care facilities
and wound and diabetic clinics.
Recommended wound protocols and treatments for these patients.

Contract Pharmaceutical Sales January 1997-January 2000

Sales Representative
Called on University of North Carolina, Duke and Baptist hospitals selling Ultram for Ortho Mc Neil and Celebrex
for Searle.
Called on physicians offices Hospitals and medical surgical clinics from Wilmington to Hickory North Carolina
promoting these products and teaching product usage to medical staff in hospitals.

NURSE CONNECTION, Houston, Texas May 1990-August 1994

Registered Nurse
Worked as a travel RN in supervisory and director of nursing positions in the areas of long term care nursing and medical
surgical supervisor.

Bristol Myers/Squibb Pharmaceuticals, Houston, Texas March 1986 -May 1990

Senior Medical Sales Representative
Responsible for promotion and sales of Bristol Myers Institutional Products Division’s Enteral Nutrition and IV product and
services.
Promoted these products and services to key hospitals, pharmacists, dialysis and oncology clinics, wholesalers and
distributors.
Negotiated state, national and special bid contracts for various accounts.
Traveled a four state territory (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida Panhandle) based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Promoted to Senior Medical Sales Representative from Houston based territory sales position with Mead Johnson Nutritional
Division in 1988.
Marketed baby formula and specialty products to hospitals, gynecologists, pediatricians, and neonatal physicians. Managed
several representatives in the field.
Achievements
Top Sales Representative in Houston District, 1986
Top Sales Representative for 2nd Quarter, Houston District, 1987
Over one million dollar sales increase, 1988-89, 1989-90
Achievement of Excellence Award for being one of the eight top producers nationally in 1989.
Won trips to Spain, New Orleans and Palm Springs for top sales production.
Surgicare Satellite Outpatient Center, Houston, Texas January 1983 -March 1986
Director of Nursing/Administration
Responsible for supervision of clinical personnel and daily operation of clinic.
Worked closely with the twenty doctors including plastic surgeons and ophthalmologist.
Managed twenty OR technicians and nurses.
Managed medical staff, anesthesiologist and administrative staff operating three surgical suites and recovery area.

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas December 1981 - January 1983

Marketing Research Director, OB/GYN Department
Responsible for overall management of one-year research project funded by Proctor and Gamble.
Performed this double blind study on a consumer product that is now on the market as a result of the study.

Emory Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia June 1979-December 1981

Registered Nurse – Renal ICU
Cared for first ever kidney transplant patients in Atlanta.
Performed renal and peritoneal dialysis on in and out patients.