Karen’s passions include caring for women, volunteering in her community, promoting the use of locally grown and harvested food, caring for her extended family, promoting the nursing profession and assisting advanced practice nursing students. She serves on local boards as well as the Center for Improving Value in Health Care at the State level and is a fellow of the Bighorn Health Policy Leadership Program.

Voted 2013 “Best Nurse”
by the Durango Herald
Reader’s Choice Awards

 Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, RN
 Loretto Heights College, BSN
 University of Colorado, MS

Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner, National Certification Corporation
 Colorado and New Mexico State Board of Nursing, Advanced Practice Registries

 Colorado and New Mexico Nurses Association
 American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
 Sigma Theta Tau, National Honor Society of Nursing