YOUR FAMILY NURSE ADVOCATES - Key Persons

Jean Coates, MS, RN, iRNPA has over 30 years of Nursing Experience. Jean has worked in hospitals, has been a corporate executive and has always been an advocate for those she has cared for. Jean started her nursing career in 1983, after graduating with her Associate Applied Science, Nursing from West Virginia Northern Community College, Wheeling WV, completed a Bachelor Science, Nursing, from West Virginia University and completed a Master Science in with a Specialization in Nursing Informatics from University of Maryland, Baltimore. Jean also completed her Independent Registered Nurse Patient Advocacy (iRNPA) certification with RN Patient Advocates, PLLC and University of Arizona. Jean had her epiphany of the need for Private Patient Advocacy while sitting in an ICU waiting room, waiting for her mother to return from the Operating Room, following mom's Open Heart Surgical procedure.