Our Team

Betty Long, MHA, RN

Rebecca Rivkin-Czarkowski, MPH, BSN, RN

Jessica Rudi, BSN, RN

Teresa Duckworth, RN

Charlotte Jaroma, BSN, RN

Jackie Kane, BSN, RN

Andrea Spector, MSN, RN

Michelle Agnese, MSN, RN

Kelli Axner, BSN, RN

Nurse Axner brings more than 17 years of clinical nursing experience, most recently as a pediatric emergency room nurse in South Jersey. Though she does have adult med-surg experience early in her career, her passion has always been helping parents and kids during scary times.

Lindsay Aliano, BSN, RN

Diane Bassett, RN

Nicole Botta, BSN, RN

Nurse Botta joins us with more than 15 years’ experience in clinical nursing and healthcare marketing in the Long Island area . She has advocated for patients and families through inpatient stays and has worked with families, providers, clinics and community agencies to make sure patients got the appropriate treatment.

Tabitha Bradley, BSN, RN

Nurse Bradley has more than 11 years nursing experience and joins our team from her most recent role as Director of Nursing at a New York state developmental disabilities facility. Prior to that role, she also worked in medical surgical, critical care and emergency medicine.

Eileen Calderbank, BSN, RN, CCRN

Nadine Cooper, BSN, RN

Nurse Cooper joins our team with 20+ years of nursing experience, the most recent being at a national provider offering telephonic care coordination. While enjoying the advocacy role, she looks forward to providing more in-person support in her role as a Mobile Care Coordinator for the Iron Workers District Council of Philadelphia.

Ramona Cooper, MSN, RN

Nurse Cooper joins our team after spending 24 years in acute care nursing, 20 of which was in pediatrics. Most recently she worked in primary care programs as a triage nurse and as a mobile nurse with Amazon Care.

Debra Dauphinais, MSN, RN

Nurse Dauphinais has more than 17 years of med-surg and cardiac care nursing experience in inpatient settings in Syracuse, NY.  In addition, she has several years of experience in nursing education both in a clinical and classroom setting.

Jennifer Donahue, RN

Carolyn Ewald, BSN, RN, CCRN

Nurse Ewald joins our team with 18 years of nursing experience—the majority of that spent in in-patient critical care. She earned her BSN from University of Pittsburgh and has maintained her Certified Critical Care Nurse (CCRN) certification since 2007.

Sara Fiske, BSN, RN, CCRN

Nurse Fiske joins our team after 12 years in South Jersey acute care hospitals, more specifically as a staff nurse on surgical post-op units, detox units, and critical care units. She has the distinction of being a certified critical care nurse (CCRN) which requires rigorous course work as well as passing an exam.

Jeneane Fitzmaurice, BSN, RN, CDCES

Lori Fitzpatrick, BSN, RN

Annissa Hensley, BSN, RN

Samuel Hirst, BSN, RN

Nurse Hirst has many years of mental health nursing experience, particularly in dual diagnosis treatment facilities. Prior to specializing in mental health, he worked as a staff nurse.

Belinda Hudson, BSN, RN

Nurse Hudson has enjoyed more than 20 years in case management for a national organization before joining Guardian Nurses’ west coast team.  Prior to that, she had diverse clinical experiences including labor and delivery and mental health.

Jennifer Kenny, RN, CEN

Nurse Kenny has worked for 22 years in healthcare, first as a medical technologist and for the last 19 years as a nurse in the emergency room, home care and in an outpatient endoscopy center.

Lauren Krankowski, BSN, RN

Nurse Krankowski has been a nurse for more than 11 years. She has experience in subacute rehabilitation, emergency medicine, critical care and perioperative care.

Walker LaFleur, BSN, RN

Crystal Leonardi, BSN, RN

Tish McBride, RN

Diane McCaffery, BSN, RN

Nurse McCaffery has spent her 15 year career caring for adults on telemetry, stroke and dialysis units in acute care hospitals as well as several years working as a case manager in hospice.

Joe McLaughlin, RN, CCM

Nurse McLaughlin comes to our team with more than 20 years of experience including acute care in hospital and then most recently as a manager in a large telephonic based care coordination company.

Jeanette Meredith, RN

Heather Munizza, MSN, RN

Nurse Munizza joins our team with 15 years of nursing experience, most of it in acute care hospitals first as a staff nurse on med-surg and telemetry units and later as a clinical supervisor and nurse manager. She has also been a clinical instructor for several nursing programs.

Monica Nash, BSN, RN

Nurse Nash brings more than 25 years of experience to her role at Guardian Nurses most of which has been in tertiary care both as a staff nurse and manager. She has also worked in home care and hospice. In 2024, we are proud to share that she won a Nightingale Award in the category of Community Nursing from the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania.

Tonya Niverson, BSN, RN

Nurse Niverson brings more than 17 years of experience in hospital, specialty and primary care settings which included NICU, pediatric, adult, behavioral health, and oncology populations.

Suzy Parker, RN

Nurse Parker joins our Seattle team as the Mobile Care Coordinator RN for the Northwest Sheet Metal Workers Health Care Trust, our newest MCC Program. Prior to joining our team, Suzy enjoyed a 35 year career in nursing including roles in hospital acute care, behavioral health/substance use programs, and case management.

Erika Parrish, RN

Nurse Parrish joins our team with 14 years of clinical nursing experience primarily working with children in acute care hospitals. She has also worked as a case manager in several organizations both in and out of acute care as well as having worked in home care.

Daniela Pellicciotti, RN

Nurse Pellicciotti rejoins our team in 2024 after several years away enjoying her grandchildren. She has more than 30 years of diverse nursing experience including adult med-surg, pediatrics, nursing management, eating disorder treatment and reproductive health. Welcome back!

Janice Penn, BSN, RN

Nurse Penn has been a registered nurse since 2008 and has primarily worked in acute care cardiology units prior to joining Guardian Nurses.

Jennifer Prater, MSN, RN, CCRN

Nurse Prater joins our team with extensive experience in critical care and management in acute care hospitals. She also has home care and nursing education experience.

Lori Rivkin, BSN, RN

Nurse Rivkin joins our team with more than 35 years of diverse clinical experience starting with acute care hospital nursing and for the last many years, working in home care and hospice for a large faith-based organization.

Debrah Rodriguez, BSN, RN

Nurse Rodriguez brings more than 11 years of expertise in clinical practice and healthcare systems management as a nurse care coordinator. As a public health nurse with the Niagara County (Buffalo, NY) Department of Health, Debrah spearheaded multiple care coordination initiatives designed to optimize care processes and enhance patient experiences.

Tylitha Ruffin, BSN, RN

Nurse Ruffin has been a nurse for more than 15 years. She has experience in long term care, homecare, admissions, skilled nursing care and cardiopulmonary. She also has case management and social work experience.

Samantha Salerno, BSN, RN

Nurse Salerno received her BSN from Liberty University in Virginia and has enjoyed a 15 year career in emergency departments, home care and hospice as well as geriatric care. Most recently, she led an out-patient endoscopy center as the clinical leader.

Crystal Santoro, BSN, RN

Kate Sharrow, BSN, RN

Alicia Spataro, BSN, RN

Nurse Spataro joins Guardian Nurses after more than 20 years’ experience in multiple areas of nursing, mostly within the acute critical care units in the South Jersey area.

Paula Spector, BSN, RN

Damali N. Stansbury, LSW, MSW

We are very proud to welcome Damali to our team as she is our first social worker! With experience in providing behavioral health services to children and families, Damali will support our team of nurses and together, they will support our patients’ behavioral health needs.

Lauren Strauss, BSN, RN

Nurse Strauss joins our team in 2025 with more than 11 years of nursing experience. She has worked in a large, urban medical center in multiple critical care areas as well as a med-surg unit.  Her most recent clinical experience was at an ambulatory surgical center.

Megan Swider, RN

Nurse Swider has more than 22 years in nursing most recently working with long-term care patients. She brings many years of experience in general medical -surgical nursing as well as acute and subacute rehabilitation.

Kelly Welden, RN

Amber Weld-Lamonda, RN

Nurse Weld-Lamonda more than 10 years of nursing experience. She has worked as a charge nurse in medical surgical, kidney dialysis and surgical oncology. She spent time as a travel nurse and worked in telemetry, step down, ICU and oncology. She joins our team from her most recent role as Nurse Practitioner and Infection Prevention Control in a New York state rehabilitation facility.

Jennifer White, MSN, RN

Nurse White comes to us after working for the last six years in home infusion. Prior to that, she had spent 12 years working in the emergency services department in South Jersey.

Stephanie Wimmer, BSN, RN

Nurse Wimmer comes to Guardian Nurses after a long career in acute care. Her experiences include staff nurse, home care nurse, case manager, educator and manager.

Alonda Wood, BSN, RN

Nurse Wood, who hails from West Virginia, has been a nurse for more than 34 years working first in critical care in Philadelphia, but after finding home care nursing in 1995, she never looked back.  She enjoys establishing supportive relationships with her home bound patients.

Michele Murphy

Michele manages the administrative operations of our entire team and is responsible for taking care of our new headquarters.

Joyce Pedrick

Joyce oversees our team’s expanding technology needs as well as having responsibility for maintaining our data and client reporting.

Kelly Zoller