The Life and Writings of Barbara Nelson Blinn

Dr. Carol Ann Blinn White did not discover how much she enjoyed writing until her career path took her in that direction. She worked hard in high school to get scholarships and financial aid which allowed her to attend college to study nursing. She became a registered nurse in 1992. She then went back to school and earned her Master's degree in 2000, completing a dual major program in Community Health Nursing and Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. From 2000 to 2003, White worked full-time in the nurse practitioner role for a retirement community.  In 2003, she launched Geriatric Innovations for clinical nurse practitioner consulting.  In 2004, White reduced her nurse practitioner hours to part-time, and folded Geriatric Innovations into her newly-launched educational consulting practice under the name NationalHI, INC. (NHI).

 

Under NHI, White presented full-day seminars nationally.  She created her own presentation materials and wrote seminar manuals to support the presentations. Additionally, she published articles in assorted nursing literature. In 2004, White was asked by an attorney to review a handful of cases for him. That was the beginning of NHI's legal consulting business. Today, NHI has worked with attorney clients across the country and employs several full-time staff.

 

White became an undergraduate nursing professor in 2007, and a graduate nursing professor in 2008. She headed the geriatric nurse practitioner program for Indiana Wesleyan University for several years, including teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate nursing courses. She most often taught nursing research, and frequently found herself educating many students about the basics of writing.

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In 2009, Dr. White earned her doctorate degree in nursing. She continues to teach, see patients, review cases for attorneys, testify as an expert witness in select cases, and develop life care plans for patients who have been catastrophically injured.

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Dr. White has two grown children. In her spare time, she likes to be at the lake spending time with family and friends, wakesurfing, riding her bicycle, hiking, or writing.