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Hyacinth H. Martin

Hyacinth's nursing career includes staff nurse experiences on medical-surgical units, head nurse/nurse manager for medical-surgical units and critical-care units, administrative nursing supervisor, community nursing, and administrative nursing supervisor in long-term care agencies. Her academic experiences include teaching theory and clinical in Licensed Practical Nursing program, a Baccalaureate Degree Program and at present in an Associate Degree program. In 1999, Hyacinth was guest speaker on WMBC-TV (Channel 63, Newton, NJ), discussing issues pertaining to multiculturalism, with focus on multi-cultural marriage and its effects on the family.

Publications include two articles for a nursing journal, one manuscript for Continuing Medical Education Resource, and part of a chapter on the Diabetes Mellitus, published by Thomson Demar Learning. She has also reviewed a chapter in Pharmacology for Nursing Care, Richard A. Lehne (5th ed.), and revised PowerPoint for Pharmacology for Nursing Care (6th ed.) and an instructor's manual. She was a contributor for Gerontological Nursing Textbook (2006), P. A. Tabloski and the 4th Edition of Medical-Surgical Nursing:Critical Thinking in Client Care (2008). Areas of this current book can be seen on: www.prenhall.com/lemone

Her contributions to education include recent presentation: "Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Controlling the TransSyllabus of the Disease," at PACE University Conference; "Civic Society, Environmental Responsibility, & Sustainable Development in the United States & Brazil," presented at the Manhattan Veteran's Hospital Medical Center Conference, New York; and "The Effective Use of Unfractionated and Fractionated Heparin Therapy to Patients at Risk for Thrombus formation" and "Nurse's Nurturing Nurses," presented at Lincoln Hospital Medical Center, New York..

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Hyacinth Martin was recognized in Who's Who Among American Teachers for four successive years. A current recipient of a PSC-CUNY grant for research on Gender ad Career Choice in Nursing, she is a full-time tenured professor in the nursing program at Borough of Manhattan Community College/The City University of New York.

Hyacinth's other contributions (along with her husband's) to the welfare of others include adopting a basic school in one of  the West Indian islands, and sponsoring a nursing student in Davao City, Philippines.

EDUCATION:

BSN Degree; Lehman College

Master's Degree in Career Guidance and Counseling; Lehman College

Master Degree in Nursing Administration; Columbia University

Master's Degree in Urban Education/Theology; NYACK College, NY