Modupe Odugbemi., RN, BSN, MSN, AANP
Modupe started her nursing career at Calvary Hospital after her academic completion of Bachelor of Science at Herbert Lehman College. At Calvary, she got the insight into how the totality of medicine, emotion, and spiritual needs of humans is inter-woven towards the end of life.
In learning and connecting human dignity and compassion, she was able to understand the importance of those populations with role overload. She teamed up with the Respite care team at the job to support the families of the dying who themselves need care after being there for their loved ones who are dying. Understanding illness and the trajectory into grief led her into deeper introspection; therefore, she took up a job as a Nurse with Federation Employment Governing Services (FEGS) to provide care to the population with physical and mental disabilities. In her quest to uphold human dignity while working as a nurse with FEGS, she was committed to seeing these populations beyond having disabilities. She demonstrated her duties and responsibilities as a nurse to those she served, providing opportunities for them to live, and be loved, learn, and work in the community and interpreting to the population she served that a limitation is not condemnation. She worked with other support groups such as Cerebral palsy of New York, YAI, and OPWDD to empower and enhance these populations.
While still craving for professional advancement and knowledge, she proceeded and took up a job at Jacobi Medical Center, a division of HHC as a medical-surgical nurse. At JMC, she delivered treatment to the injured, sick, and recovering adults collaborating with a multidisciplinary team and utilizing strategies to solve patients’ problems. While at JMC, Modupe executed her responsibilities as a nurse. She prepared patients for in-house diagnostic testing and implemented curative treatments, that gave her the urge and the desire to want to advance in her career, to have more academic understanding of disease process such as, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery process. Therefore, she decided to pursue a career as a family Nurse Practitioner from Mount Saint Vincent with a Master of Science degree. She is Board Certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
With her academic achievement and work experience, she secured a job with North Central Hospital (NCB), a division of HHC. She is currently practicing as a Nurse Practitioner in the primary care clinic, providing preventative care, identifying, and treating common medical conditions to the community alongside, providing dignity and respect to the residents of Westchester Center for Rehabilitation in Mount Vernon.