Our nurse advocates have compassion, expertise and experience

Guardian Nurses services are performed by professional registered nurses who have expertise in nursing and health care issues. All of them have outstanding clinical knowledge as well as significant experience managing and coordinating care. Their experience, maturity and knowledge of community resources provide you with your own nurse advocate. You can be assured that each nurse advocate is working solely on your behalf and has your best interests in mind. Below you'll read about a few members of our team (those who were not camera-shy).

Betty Long, RN, MHA
President and Founder Betty Long, RN, MHA, has 25 years nursing experience in clinical, management and consulting capacities. Nurse Long has a long history of healthcare advocacy with special expertise in critical care, long-term care and geriatric care management. She is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Case Management Society of America as well as a member of the National Patient Advocate Foundation Advocates Alliance for Action and the National Association of Women Business Owners. She is a contributing editor for Employee Benefit News and serves on the Advisory Board of the Professional Patient Advocacy Institute. She also shares her expert opinion on Sharecare, an interactive social Q&A website created by Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz in partnership with Harpo Studios, HSW International, Sony Pictures Television and Discovery Communications. Betty Long's blog, Guarding Your Health, provides helpful information on consumer healthcare topics.
Mary Ellen Bense, RN, BSN
Nurse Bense brings many years of home care and hospice management, hospital administration and healthcare business expertise to the Guardian Nurses team. Her nursing background also includes working with diverse clinical issues in a range of ages, from children to the elderly in hospital and community settings.
Patricia Bernard, RN
Nurse Bernard's area of expertise is cardiology. She has worked as a cardiovascular researcher and specialized in working with patients with congestive heart failure. Her 25-year nursing career also includes experience in hospice, medical-surgical units and nurse management.
Pamela Buckner, RN, BS
Nurse Buckner brings more than 20 years experience specific to the managed care arena, having worked at several large health insurance companies. Her specialties include claims management and analysis, risk assessment, case and disease management. She also brings direct patient care experience in maternal child health, oncology, and general medical-surgical units.
Karen Coughlin, RN, BS
Nurse Coughlin offers extensive clinical experience in critical care, the operating room and neurology (with an emphasis on epilepsy.) Her 20+ year nursing career includes management and research. She has also served as a legal nurse consultant in the Philadelphia area.

Opportunities for RNs

Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates is always interested in talking with registered nurses who have a passion for helping patients and a minimum of 20 years of diverse clinical experience. We look for strong backgrounds in case management, disease management and health promotion. If you are creative, professional, computer savvy, and have a solid knowledge of insurance reimbursement and are willing to go the extra mile, we would love to hear from you.

Please send your resume' to jobs@guardiannurses.com or fax 215-933-6111. We'll let you know now that due to the volume of inquiries that we receive, we will only respond If your resume' reflects the experience and professionalism we require.

Judy Mancini, RN
Nurse Mancini has more than twenty years of experience as a critical care nurse. She has expertise in helping patients with a wide variety of cardiac diagnoses and multi-system diseases and failures. She has also worked with patients and family members in identifying and resolving quality of care issues during hospitalizations and nursing home stays.
Heidi Petersohn, RN, BSN, CPT
Nurse Petersohn brings more than 20 years of nursing experience starting as an Army Captain and staff nurse at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Her career includes pediatrics, school nursing, and oncology. More recently, she has worked as a wellness and fitness coach and personal trainer.
Barbara Pugh, RN, MSN
Nurse Pugh specializes in pulmonary diseases. She also has a broad background in case management with operational experience in insurance procedures and resolutions. Her 20+ year nursing career spans critical care, medical/surgical and clinical research
Joanne Simone, RN, MBA
Nurse Simone was named 2011 Patient Advocate of the Year at the Dorland Health People Awards in October 2011. She has both adult and pediatric patient experience upon which to draw for her advocacy work. For more than 30 years, she has worked in multiple states and multiple settings both as a case manager and as a staff nurse. Her broad range of expertise makes her a wonderful resource for patients and families on a variety of issues both in acute and long-term care.