OUR TEAM · THE HANDS THAT TEND

Fourteen people, one long-standing roster.

Vetted, retained and credentialed in the fields they coach — never a gig marketplace. If your program is nursing, research, business or education, someone here holds the degree you are working toward.

WHY THE STEAD EXISTS

Our goal is to make online classes workable for working adults and professionals — and to stand beside them until the degree is finished.

Most of our students are nurses, managers, teachers and parents carrying full shifts and families while a program asks for forty hours a week. That is not a discipline problem; it is an arithmetic problem. So we plan the season, tend the weekly work, find the placement, prepare the protocol — and hand every draft back for the student to read, revise and approve. The degree belongs to them. We just refuse to let them do it alone.

The tenders.

Anjali Devaraj
Anjali Devaraj
DNP, FNP-BC
Head of nursing

Twenty years in family practice, nine of them precepting. She reads a nursing rubric the way faculty wrote it.

NURSING BENCH
Ilse Bergmann
Ilse Bergmann
PhD, Biostatistics
Research & statistics lead

Guides SPSS and R work for doctoral students and translates committee statistics notes into plain steps.

RESEARCH BENCH
Desta Alemu
Desta Alemu
MSN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric NP specialist

Placed psych students in counties that told them there was nothing available. Usually within a month.

NURSING BENCH
Zerlina Ferrero
Zerlina Ferrero
DNP, MBA
Capstone & DPI projects

Has taken more than four hundred DNP projects from problem statement to defense.

RESEARCH BENCH
Thandeka Quillon
Thandeka Quillon
PhD, Public Health
IRB protocol lead

Wrote and reviewed protocols for two university boards before joining the stead.

RESEARCH BENCH
Ottoline Sandoval
Ottoline Sandoval
MSN Ed, RN
Weekly coursework lead

Runs the weekly rhythm — posts, replies and quizzes, drafted with students and ready early.

STUDENT DESK
Owen Brackett
Owen Brackett
MBA, CPA
Business & health admin

MBA, MHA and BHA coursework: finance, operations, capstone simulations.

BUSINESS BENCH
Sunniva Tharpe
Sunniva Tharpe
EdD
Education programs

M.Ed and EdD students, licensure portfolios and action-research projects.

BUSINESS BENCH
Samuel Ortiz
Samuel Ortiz
MSN, AGACNP-BC
Acute care & clinicals

Keeps acute-care hour logs audit-clean and preceptor evaluations on schedule.

NURSING BENCH
Ferran Castellan
Ferran Castellan
MLIS
Research librarian

Finds the current, real, citable sources — and refuses to let a fabricated reference through.

RESEARCH BENCH
Hyacinth Nakamura
Hyacinth Nakamura
MSN, RN
Exam prep lead

Builds blueprint-weighted plans for HESI, comps and proctored finals.

STUDENT DESK
Clara Bowen
Clara Bowen
BSN, RN
Placement office manager

Files affiliation agreements with 900+ sites and keeps a backup ready before you need one.

PLACEMENT OFFICE
Malachy Dumitrescu
Malachy Dumitrescu
MA, Writing
Writing & feedback

Rubric-row commentary on every graded page, in the student’s own voice.

STUDENT DESK
Aisha Karim
Aisha Karim
MSN, WHNP-BC
Women’s health & peds

Specialty placements and clinical documentation for WHNP and pediatric tracks.

NURSING BENCH

How the work is divided.

Nursing team

BSN through DNP — coursework, clinicals, care plans, capstones.

Research team

IRB protocols, statistics, dissertations and DPI projects.

Business team

MBA, MHA, BHA, M.Ed and EdD programs.

Placement office

Sites, preceptors, affiliation packets and hour logs in all 50 states.

Student desk

Weekly work, writing feedback and exam prep — the everyday tending.

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