LEWISTON — Nancy Jo Ross has been appointed director of the Central Maine Medical Center College of Nursing and Health Professions College of Nursing.

Ross is an experienced faculty member, manager and staff nurse. She is a certified nurse educator, a member of the National League of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, Organization of Maine Nurse Executives, National Organization of Associate Degree Nursing, and charter president of the Maine Organization of Associate Degree Nursing. She is enrolled in a doctoral in nursing program and expects to graduate next year.

Ross’ leadership experience includes: clinical director of nursing at Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice in Lewiston; manager of skilled services/hospice programs at CHANS Home Health Care, a subsidiary of Midcoast Health Services in Brunswick; and director of nursing at Nurses’ House Call, a subsidiary of Hooper Holmes Health Care Inc.

Ross has extensive experience as a staff nurse and clinical coordinator. She worked as a certified critical care nurse as a naval officer in the Nurse Corps of the United States Naval Reserve stationed in Oakland, Calif., at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas. Her other nursing experience includes work as an oncology nurse with chemotherapy certification, a peritoneal dialysis nurse, a certified medical-surgical staff nurse, and a community health nurse with high-tech specialization and hospice certification.

Ross came to CMMC as a clinical coordinator on the first floor Thompson Wing Nursing Unit in 2002 before joining the CMMC CONHP as a faculty member in 2003. In her role at the college, she participates in curriculum development and community outreach. Ross developed and coordinated the advanced placement bridge course, designed specifically to facilitate the transition of LPNs and paramedics into the senior year of the nursing program. She is currently involved in community work force development activities.

More information about the CMMC CONHP is available at www.cmmccollege.edu or by calling 795-2840.