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BIOGRAPHY
Susan Lawrence Tumbleston
Program Manager, Be Active North Carolina-Appalachian Partnership
Susan Tumbleston is personally committed to wellness. Her current
position as program manager of Be Active North Carolina-Appalachian
Partnership integrates her professional knowledge and personal
practice.
A native and longtime resident of Boone, Tumbleston has worked
in health care for more than 30 years as a nurse and administrator.
She runs and lifts weights regularly and believes that physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual activities are connected to one’s
well-being.
From 1994 to 2005, Tumbleston served as coordinator for quality
improvement at Appalachian State University’s Mary S. Shook
Student Health Service. She was responsible for internal organizational
systems that support patient care, including electronic health
information programs, management and reporting of patient data,
a quality improvement program, risk management and safety programs,
and cost benefit analyses for patient care services. She also oversaw
regulatory compliance and accreditation activities, and authored
and maintained policies and procedures. Under her direction, Health
Service implemented additional clinical services such as the Nurse
Clinic, Injury Rehabilitation Clinic and Travel Services Clinic.
She was also in charge of integrating the service’s marketing
activities, campus outreach through classroom presentations and
faculty/staff coordination, and development and maintenance of
the Health Service Web site. She served as a staff nurse at the
Health Service from 1987-1994.
In addition to her Health Service duties, Tumbleston served as
an adjunct faculty member in the university’s Walker College
of Business from 1998 to 2005, teaching courses in the Department
of Management and the Department of Computer Information Systems.
She is a member of Appalachian’s Nursing Planning Committee,
which has developed a nursing program scheduled to begin in Fall
2006 pending UNC Board of Governors approval. She also serves on
the university’s Emergency Response Planning Committee and
Exposure Control Committee.
Previously, Tumbleston was a clinical instructor of nursing through
Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, an infection
control practitioner at Watauga Medical Center, and a staff nurse
in Mars Hill, Wake Forest, and Raleigh.
Her experience working with non-profit organizations began in 1990
when she joined the board of Hospitality House, a homeless shelter
in Boone. She served four years on the Hospitality House board
and later served three years on the High Country United Way board
of directors and five years on the United Way Allocations Committee,
learning the nuances of non-profit funding and grant writing.
Tumbleston is a registered nurse in North Carolina, having earned
her nursing diploma from N.C. Baptist Hospital School of Nursing
in 1972 and a bachelor of nursing degree from Mars Hill College
in 1973. She earned a master of business administration degree
from Appalachian in 1996. She has studied infection control and
epidemiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center and the
Centers for Disease Control.
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