ABOUT MARLENE
Marlene is a cross-cultural trainer and curriculum designer for cultural competency programs and professional medical interpreter training. A registered nurse with over thirty years of hands-on bedside nursing, she originally came from the Philippines, completed her nursing education in the U.S., and has obtained additional certificates in cross-cultural training and transcultural nursing.
Experience
Marlene Obermeyer is an experienced cross-cultural trainer and continuing education provider for nurses with emphasis on Cultural Competency. She has designed and authored over 100 contact hours of continuing education courses for nurses and webmaster and website designer for websites including two continuing education websites and for a professional organization. She has recent experience as an online instructor for Virginia College online. She is a certified eCollege instructor.
She is the director of Culture Advantage Professional Medical Interpreter Training.
Cultural Training and Consulting Clients:
Wichita School District, Wichita, KS
Cargill Wichita
Sprint Overland Park, KC
Medical Interpreting Clients:
United States Catholic Conference of Bishops Washington, DC
Rockford Healthcare Systems, Illinois
Ohio Health Partners, Ohio
Clinical Experience
Clinical nursing experience: coronary care, medical-surgical, orthopedic, intensive care, bone marrow transplant, geriatric-psych, and long-term care. Locations: metropolitan U.S. East Coast and West Coast, medical centers in the midwest, and in small community hospitals. Recent experience as Medical Services Consultant for workers comp. Current experience as Revenue Integrity Nurse Analyst for a national healthcare organization.
Education
Education: Master of Arts: Liberal Studies with concentrations in Anthropology, Communication and International Business. Certificates in Training for International Transitions, and Cross-cultural Training in International Corporations from the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication. Transcultural Nursing Post-graduate Program University of Northern Colorado.
Culture Advantage (Marlene Obermeyer) is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.
Member and Webmaster: Kansas Association of Nursing Continuing Education Providers. KANCEP
Member and former Kansas State Representative: International Medical Interpreters Association
Member: National Council on Interpreting in Healthcare.
Member: Texas Association of Healthcare Interpreters and Translators
Links
Link to me on LinkedIn.
Continuing Education courses
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