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Deborah Yancey, MSN, RN
Director, Associate Degree Nursing
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway
Wharton , TX 77488
Ph: (979)532-6391
Email: deborahy@wcjc.edu

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Deborah Yancey, MSN, RN
Director, Associate Degree Nursing
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway #J232
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6309
Email: deborahy@wcjc.edu
Ms. Yancey graduated from University of Texas School of Nursing in Houston, Texas in December 1975. From 1976 to 1980 Ms. Yancey worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse at the Texas Medical Center. In 1980 Ms Yancey’s focus moved from pediatrics to adult critical care and nursing management. While serving as Director of Nursing in a rural facility, Ms. Yancey earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing Administration from the University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin, Texas. Ms. Yancey began her teaching career at Wharton County Junior College in the Associate Degree Nursing Program in 1998. She assumed the Director position in January, 2010.
Rickie Jo Bonner, MS, RN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway #J112
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6404
Email: bonnerr@wcjc.edu

 

Ms. Bonner received her Associate Degree in Nursing from The Victoria College in 1979. She worked the first two years of her nursing career in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The next 21 years she worked in various positions in a small town hospital. Her positions included Medical Surgical Charge Nurse, Home Health Director, Quality Management/Discharge Planning, and Emergency Room. During this time, she taught part time for The Victoria College Vocational Nursing Program. She then took a position with Vocational Nursing for Blinn College. Ms. Bonner worked under a grant, Growing Regional Interest in Nursing, with The Victoria College Associate Degree Nursing Program, for two years as a retention specialist and assisted with simulation. During this time she completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, then her Master of Science through Regis University, Denver, Colorado, graduating December 2008. She came to WCJC January 2009 as a full time instructor for the Associate Degree Nursing Program. She has taught Medical Surgical 2 clinical and now is focusing of Fundamentals with newly entering nursing students.
 
Dinez Esmail RN, MS
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
14004 University Boulevard # SL377
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Ph: (281) 243-8569
Email: DinezE@wcjc.edu

 

Mrs. Esmail received her B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Texas Woman's University. After completing her M.S. degree, Mrs. Esmail earned her Post Master's in Education from Texas Woman's University. Mrs. Esmail is currently enrolled at Walden University pursuing her Doctorate in Education. Mrs. Esmail started her teaching career at WCJC teaching in the LVN program for three years. Mrs. Esmail has been a full time instructor for Wharton County Junior College since 2004 where she teaching in the Associate Degree Nursing Program.
Jay Dune, PhD, DTS, MSN, RN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway #J114
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6954
Email: dunej@wcjc.edu
Dr. Dune received his B.S.N. from the University of the State of New York. He worked as a Registered Nurse in several Houston area hospitals in varied roles, from bedside to administration. He received his M.S.N. from the University of Phoenix and has taught nursing courses in three levels, namely, A.D.N., B.S.N. and M.S.N. He received his D.T.S. and Ph.D. with honors from Bethany Theological Seminary, and is currently a full time instructor for Wharton County Junior College A.D.N. Program since August, 2009.
 
Amanda Pence, RN, BSN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway #J118
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6403
Email: pencea@wcjc.edu
Mrs. Amanda Pence received her BSN from the University of Texas at Austin in December, 2005. Ms. Pence served as an Internal Medicine Clinic Manager and Labor and Delivery nurse while serving in the United States Navy. After discharge from the military, Ms. Pence’s nursing experience focus was Maternal Child Nursing. She has been working as the Clinical Laboratory Coordinator at Wharton County Junior College since January of 2010. Currently she is working to obtain her Masters Degree in Nursing Leadership from Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
 
Liz Prather, MS, APRN, NP-C
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
14004 University Boulevard # SL206
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Ph: (281) 243-8561
Email: lizp@wcjc.edu
Ms. Prather graduated with a BSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, a MS from Texas Woman’s University in Houston, and post graduate certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner from TWU in Houston. Ms. Prather has extensive experience in ICU and ED nursing, and has been teaching full time for Wharton County Junior College since 1983. She currently teaches a variety of subjects in the Associate Degree Nursing Program.
 
Sharon Rappold, MSN, RN, BC
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway #J111
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6471
Email: sharonr@wcjc.edu
Ms. Rappold received her Associate Degree in Nursing in 1986 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The first 3 years of her career were spent at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, working as a staff nurse and then charge nurse of a high-risk Labor and Delivery regional referral center. After moving to Texas in 1989, she worked as a staff nurse at Woman’s Hospital in Houston and as the coordinator of Labor and Delivery at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Wharton. In 1998, she earned her bachelor’s degree through Regents College in New York. She earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Phoenix in 2000 and began working as an instructor at Wharton County Junior College. Her current focus is Nursing Fundamentals. She has also taught in Medical-Surgical I, Medical-Surgical II, and Transition to Nursing Practice. Additionally she has served as a clinical instructor in Obstetrics. She has been certified as a high-risk perinatal nurse by the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center since 1988.
Frances Sablatura, MS, RN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway  #J116
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6464
Email: francess@wcjc.edu
Ms Sablatura received her BSN degree from the University of Texas. Work experience includes areas of acute care (adult and pediatric), long term care (adult and pediatric), psychiatric care (inpatient and outpatient), and home health services. Since receiving her M.S. in Nursing from Texas Woman’s College, Ms Sablatura has been a full time associate degree nursing instructor for Wharton County Junior College since 1988.
Mariakutty Samuel, MSN, RN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
14004 University Boulevard  # SL204
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Ph: (281) 243-8564
Email: marias@wcjc.edu
Ms. Samuel received her Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery from the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Punjab, India in 1972. She worked at that hospital for two years in medical unit, surgical unit and operating room. Since 1974, she has worked as a nurse at various hospitals in The United States including a Psychiatric Hospital in New York, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Veterans Administrations Hospital in Baltimore, Veterans Administrations Hospital and Del Oro Hospital in Houston. During this time she obtained special certifications and degrees including Certifications in Critical Care and Medical Surgical Nursing, Pre-requisite courses from Houston Community College, BSN (1992) and MSN (1994) from the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. Majority of her nursing experience is in Critical Care Nursing and her MSN focused in Critical Care Nursing with an Education and Clinical Nurse Specialist Role. She taught at WCJC as a part time Clinical Instructor for a year before becoming a full-time faculty member in 1995. She has taught theory, lab and clinical in LVN-RN transition program, Fundamentals, Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health, Medical/Surgical and Critical Care Nursing.
Amy Wall, M.A., RN
Associate Degree Nursing Instructor
Wharton County Junior College
14004 University Boulevard # SL208
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Ph: (281) 243-8562
Email: WallA@wcjc.edu

Ms. Wall graduated from Rutgers University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She practice nursing for seven years and earned a Masters of Arts degree in Nursing Education at New York University in 1989. She taught in hospital based inservice education for nine years. Ms. Wall has been full time faculty at WCJC since 2005. During this time she has taught Foundations in Nursing, Nursing Skills and Clinical Nursing for Level 1 and Level 2 Freshmen.
Lori Baumgarten
Allied Health Secretary
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Highway
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532-6391
FAX: (979) 532-6489
Email: baumgartenl@wcjc.edu

 
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