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With experience as a bedside registered nurse in a bone marrow transplant unit where she cared for hematology and oncology patients for 17½ years, Katrena A Wells incorporates first-hand experience based on her cancer nursing knowledge and research demonstrating evidence-based practice.

Nursing & Teaching Experience

Katrena teaches Basic Life Support (CPR) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) classes through her local American Heart Association's training center. Katrena also teaches nursing assistants and medical terminology students online through a community college. She created the first online Nurse Aide 1 curriculum for North Carolina and has also developed other online healthcare-related classes with a focus on the special needs of seniors.

Family Life

In the midst of raising three young daughters with GERD and multiple seasonal allergies and food sensitivities, Katrena also enjoys teaching group exercise classes, including aerobics, step, kickboxing, boot camp, sculpt, yoga, pilates, SilverSneakers classes, kids aerobics, and floor exercise with a dance flavor.

Katrena's desire to stay home with the kids has resulted in a rather frugal lifestyle. Her 1993 Chevy Cavalier has over 300,000 miles and she rarely ever buys clothes that are brand new. Many of her articles offer practical advice on how to save time and money while enjoying the simpler things in life. Preventive healthcare is much more cost efficient, and many of Katrena's articles offer information about saving money on healthcare-related topics. Those who work at her local public library know Katrena and her kids by name and may joke about the limit of checking out fifty books at a time, although Katrena has not quite reached that limit...yet.

With a father who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and encouraged people to build their character and a mom who is an excellent storyteller, Katrena has a keen interest in seeking to help and educate others through informative articles that may also inspire and engage readers. Katrena seeks to write about subjects that are relevant, practical, and timely with the example of her Granny, who was an insightful and progressive twelfth grade English teacher who particularly liked "challenging" students and would readily say, "If you're going to fix carburators for a living, you should learn how to spell it."

Check out some of Katrena's Blogs:

Travel NC With Kids - Get practical tips with articles packed with pictures and personal experience for families who live or are traveling to North Carolina

Fit Tips 4 Life - Find great information for incorporating healthy habits into your lifestyle

Wildflower Bouquets - Enjoy the simple pleasures of life that are often taken for granted.

Student Survive 2 Thrive - Find great tips, flash cards, practice tests and more that can help students to survive and thrive in a classroom setting.

Readers may want to check out some of Katrena's online product reviews on Viewpoints, where she has published over 1,000 reviews. Her opinions are down-to-earth and might help others as readers may find the humor in Golytely or enjoy one of her more than 400 reviews on children's books among her many other evaluations.

Katrena has been published by Ideals Publishing of Guideposts, Standard Publishing, The Upper Room, Presbyterians Today, Capper's, Senior Care Products: Solutions for Long-term Care & Aging in Place, Salisbury Post, and Davie County Enterprise-Record.