Contact:
 

somlyay@uwyo.edu
(307) 766-6574

• Education

• Presentations

• Professional Experience

• Nursing Certifications & Memberships

• Publications

Education

• 2006
  Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master's Student
  University of Wyoming / Laramie, Wyoming

• 1990 - 1991
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program
  School of Health Care Sciences / Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas

• 1989
  Nursing Service Management Course in residence / Texas

• 1986 - 1988
  MSN / Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
  University of Utah / Salt Lake City, Utah

• 1979 - 1984
  BSN / Nursing with Biology Minor
  Trenton State College / Trenton, New Jersey

• Specialty Education:

  • 2006: Pediatric Pharmacology course, National Board of PNP

  • 2004: Pediatric Pharmacology course, National Board of PNP

  • 2004: Learning Theory for Adults, UW Adult Education course

  • 2003: Pharmacology for Primary Care Practitioners, UW Nursing

  • 2003: Pediatric Pharmacology course, National Board of PNP

  • 1998: Air Command and Staff College, New Mexico

  • 1989: Squadron Officer School in residence, Alabama

Presentations

• 2007
  Abstract selected for poster presentation
  "The Use of Journaling in a Special Care Nursery"
  NAPNAP 28th Annual Conference
  Coronado Springs Resort, Florida

• 2006
  Western Institute of Nursing poster presentation
  "Best Practice" poster selection
  Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 2006
  NHS Beyond Hearing Screening Infant and Childhood
  Hearing in Science and Clinical Practice
  Villa Erba, Cernobbio, Italy

Professional Experience

• 2007
  Assistant Lecturer
  University of Wyoming Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing
  Undergraduate psychiatric nursing courses

• 2006
  Clinical Faculty, Laramie County Community College

• 2005

  • Adjunct faculty, University of Wyoming School of Nursing

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist, Women-Child Unit, United Medical Center
    Advance practice nurse for Pediatrics, Level I and II Nursery and Mother-Baby Unit
    Clinical expert/researcher/consultant/educator

• 2004
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, occasional position. City-County Health Department, Cheyenne, Wyoming

• 2003 - 2005
  Assistant Lecturer
  University of Wyoming Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, Laramie, WY

• 2002 - 2003
  Nursing Instructor
  Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY.

• 2002
  Lt. Colonel (retired) United States Air Force

• 1985-2002
  United States Air Force

  • Chief Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Clinic Chief

    • Well child and illness examinations

    • Disaster Team Chief

    • Military Day Care Pediatric Liaison

    • Family Maltreatment Team member for 10 years

    • Child Abuse examination officer for 10 years

  • Registered Nurse: Obstetrics and Pediatrics

    • Labor and Delivery, Nursery Level I and II, Antepartum

    • Postpartum, Pediatrics

Nursing Certifications and Memberships

• Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner certification

• Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner certification

• Air Force PNP certification

• CNE Certified Nurse Educator

• ACLS

• NRP

• PALS

• Sigma Theta Tau member

• International Society of Psychiatric Nurses Association member

• NAPNAP member (PNP national organization)

• NA)PNAP Child Abuse Special Interest Group member

• NAPNAP Acute Care Special Interest Group member

• National Association for Neonatal Nurses, member

• National League for Nurses member

• American Nurses Association member

• Wyoming APN Prescriptive Rights

• Combat Care Casualty Course certification

• Supervisory Safety Course & Quality Courses

Publications

• Contributor on the following books:

• for Elsevier:
  2005: Preconceptional and Prenatal Care, Chapter 15, for Core Curriculum for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

• for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins:

  • 2008 - contributor on the following books:

    • Straight A's in Maternal-Neonatal Nursing, second edition, 2008

    • Maternal-Neonatal Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, second edition, 2008

    • Straight A's in Pediatric Nursing, second edition, 2008

  • 2007

    • Maternal/Neonatal Nursing Review Made Incredibly Easy (Second Edition). Content expert/Contributor

    • Straight A's: Maternal Neonatal Nursing. (Second edition), Contributor

  • 2006

    • NCLEX 4000; wrote 10 NCLEX style questions on adolescence issues

    • Maternal/Neonatal Nursing Review Made Incredibly Easy

    • Content expert reviewer for 58 NCLEX style questions

    • Portable Pathophysiology,  Contributor/consultant

  • 2005: LMNP Pediatrics; Text reviewer of Ricci's Maternal Newborn Nursing

  • 2004

    • Perinatal competency assessment scenarios

    • Perinatal medication administration scenarios

    • Atlas of Pathophysiology, 2 Ed, Infection chapter review/revise

    • Professional Guide to Diseases, 8th Ed, review/revise / Appendices A & B; Cultural considerations in patient care and rare diseases

  • 2003: Straight A's: Pediatric Nursing, revise infection chapter

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