Fontaine
Timmer,
DNP ARNP PMHNP BC MSN
Associate Professor of Nursing, Dr. Fontaine Timmer, Executive Director VNC, Community Liaison, Lead Professor Leadership &Mgmt
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Dr. Fontaine Timmer DNP, PMHNP-BC, ARNP, MSN, BSN, RN, BSW, Completed Women on Boards at Yale University, Health Educator and Leadership at Harvard University. Dr. Timmer is currently an Associate Professor of Nursing at Palm Beach Atlantic University, School of Nursing since 2016. Executive Director of Volunteer Nurse Corps. She developed the (VNC) volunteer program by initiating and sustaining strong community partnerships. She is PBAU's Community Liaison and Associate Professor of Nursing where she teaches Nursing courses including Community Clinicals, Psychiatric clinicals and Leadership and Management. Lead for Leadership and Management and Interprofessional Education
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The purpose of this lightening talk is to share how an academic institution can partner and build relationship with their county fire rescue team and help in some of their community initiatives such as fall prevention and risk assessments. More than 1 out of 4 older adult falls each year and falling once, increases risk of recurrent falls. Calls for falls have increased in our county, and the complexity of the issues have led to the need for interprofessional collaboration to improve health outcomes of our community. During this session, strategies on building sustainable partnerships…