Laura Mallett, MSN, RN
Assistant Lecturer
MSN, PITTSBURG STATE U., PITTSBURG, KS, Concentrated areas of study, Rural Family Health, Nursing Education and Nursing Administration, 2001; BSN, PITTSBURG STATE U., PITTSBURG, KS, 1993


LMeloche@uwyo.edu • 307-766-6567 • 341 Health Sciences
Best Mode of Communication: E-mail and phone

Office Hours: Fall Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10am-12pm; Fridays, 1-2pm

Licensure:

• Registered Nurse, Wyoming, active
• Registered Nurse, Kansas, inactive

Certification:

• Health Care Provider BLS, expires May 2009
• ACLS, expires 2009
• Web based course development conferred August 18, 2006

Professional Memberships:

• WNA district #12 - member and vice-president
• WNA State level - Chair of Continuing Education
• Sigma Theta Tau International - Alpha Pi Chapter - member and School of Nursing Counselor

Employment / Professional Experience:

• August 2007 - Present
  UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, LARAMIE, WYOMING
  Assistant Lecturer
• July 2007 - Present
  IVINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
  Staff RN ICU/ Medical/Telemetry Inpatient
• 2005 Present
  Chair of Continuing Education
  Writing RN/LPN Refresher course for Wyoming Nurses Association
• 2002 - 2007
  WESTERN WYOMING COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING
  Assistant Professor of Nursing 
• 2002 - 2004 / 2006 - 2007
  MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF SWEETWATER COUNTY, ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING
  Staff Registered Nurse 
• 2000 - 2002
  MED STAFF TRAVELING AGENCY
  Registered Nurse
  Worked with in the scope of practice in North Carolina, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Arizona in ICU, Cardiac ICU, ER, and Step down units.
• 1995 - 2000
  NEOSHO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CHANUTE, KANSAS
  Nursing Instructor

Awards and Honors:

• 2008
  • Tip of the Mortar Board - "Top Prof"
  • Selected as one of 18 nurses from across the nation to participate on the NCLEX® item development panel of subject matter experts held in Chicago, IL in May 2008. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing made the appointment, approved by the Wyoming State Board of Nursing. Meloche was nominated on the basis of clinical specialty and nursing expertise.
• 2006
  • Nurse of the Year, awarded by Wyoming Nursing Association District #6
  • Extra Mile Award (Nursing Department Award), awarded by faculty at Western Wyoming Community College
  • Excellence in Teaching, Awarded by Nursing department at Pittsburg State University

Presentations (Refereed National and International Abstracts):

• October 2008
  Poster and Round Table presentation on PBL and National Nurse Educators Conference

Publications:

• in progres
  Chapter in progress of submission, co-authored with Pam Larsen, Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life (3rd Edition), Chapter on GI
• 2007
  RN Refresher Course for WNA and State Board of Nursing in Wyoming