Lauren C. Kroening has over 35 years of clinical nursing experience including physical assessments, care coordination, classroom instruction, and clinical research. She currently works as a nurse practitioner in hospice care, providing physical assessments, medication management, pain management, testing orders, and collaboration with medical staff. Previously she has held roles as a registered nurse preceptor, visiting nurse in home health and hospice care, clinical case manager, primary clinician, nursing instructor, and clinical research coordinator. She has a MSN from Hunter College and BSN from SUNY Downstate Medical Center and is licensed as a registered nurse and advanced practice nurse in Tennessee.

1. LAUREN C. KROENING, APN-BC
139 Victor Road
Cosby, TN 37722
423-487-2965 or 239-272-0370
Education
Post-graduate: Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, TN 2015
MSN: Hunter-Bellevue School of Health Sciences, NY, NY 1991
BSN: SUNY Downstate Medical Center (now called SUNY Health Sciences Center at
Brooklyn), Brooklyn, NY 1981
Professional License
RN: Tennessee
APN: Tennessee
Experience Synopsis
Thirty five years clinical experience, including, but not limited to:
o physical assessment across the age spectrum in the in-patient and community settings
o assessment and coordination of care among healthcare disciplines and with community
agencies/ programs
o classroom and clinical setting instruction to RN’s, CNA’s, and student nursing assistants
o coordinated and conducted FDA-approved research projects with physicians, as well as
analyzing and interpreting data
Professional Work History
10/2015-present: Nurse Practitioner: Physical assessments of hospice patients, medication
adjustments, pain management, diagnoses, testing orders, collaboration
with hospice medical director or staff. Clinical resource person for
wound care.
9/2014- 10/2015: RN Preceptor: Clinical orientation and oversight to new RNs during
company probation period
5/2006 – 9/2014: Field Nurse: Smoky Mountain Home Health & Hospice, Newport, TN
Visiting nurse to home health and hospice patients: complete physical
exams, procedures, instruction on all aspects of care to patients and
caregivers, including end-of-life. Orientation of new staff nurses.

2. 5/2003 to 6/2005: Clinical Case Manager: Community Home Care, Inc., Naples, FL
Intake, physical assessments of clients, and management of all aspects
of private-duty company
3/1997 to 5/2003: Primary Clinician: Community Home Services, Naples, FL
Visiting nurse to home health patients
3/1996 to 11/1996: Instructor: Florida Health Academy, Naples, FL
Classroomand clinical instructor to C.N.A. students
3/1995 to 3/1997: Case Manager: XL-Care, Inc., Naples, FL (per diem)
Visiting nurse to home care patients
1/1994 to 12/1995: Case Manager: Visiting Nurses Association, Naples, FL
Visiting nurse to home care patients
1/1992 to 11/1993: Coordinator of Care: Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care,
New York, NY
Visiting nurse to home care patients
8/1991 to 12/1992: Clinical Nurse Specialist: St. Mary’s Hospital, Hoboken, NJ
Clinical expert in critical care; incorporating education and guidance to
unit nurses and collaboration with administration and physicians to
improve patient care.
3/1989 to 8/1991: Clinical Research Coordinator: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York,
NY Executed and coordinated research projects with staff
Anesthesiologists. Collected and assisted with analysis and
interpretation of data. Assisted with design and methods for
implementation of research studies. Primary investigator for research
protocol; “Determining a Relationship Between Postoperative
Ambulatory Laparoscopic Patients’ Positioning and Length of Time of
Recovery.”
8/1981 to 8/1991: Staff RN: Post-Anesthesia Care Unit and Coronary Care Units: Mount
Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
Sigma Theta Tau International, Alpha Phi Chapter, 1990

3. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Medical-Surgical Nursing: American Nurses’ Association. 1986
PUBLICATIONS
Eisenkraft, J, Bodner, N, Abel, M, Bradford, C, Kroening, L, Whitten, C, Elmore, J & Wiley, J.
(1991). Safety and Efficacy of Desflurane in Peripheral Vascular Surgery. Journal of
Anesthesiology, 192-198.
Zahl, K, Shapiro, AD, Sampson, IH, Mingus, M, Bradford, C, Kroening, L. (1990).
Metoclopramide and Droperidol as Antiemetics for Laparoscopy. Journal of
Anesthesiology, 328-332.