Community-Based Care (CBC) Education
Free For All Nurses Licensed in Oregon
Courses, mentorship, training, and community-building for current and future community-based care nurses.
Two Free Programs
CBC Nurse Enhanced Program
- 30 Interactive CBC Nurse Modules/Courses
- 1:1 CBC Nurse Mentorship
- Online Nurse Community
- Monthly Training from CBC Leaders
- Continuing Education Credits
- Certification & Recognition
CBC Nurse Standard Program
- 30 Interactive CBC Nurse Modules/Courses
- Continuing Education Credit
- 30 Interactive CBC Nurse Modules/Courses
- Continuing Education Credit
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Our mission is to recruit, train and support nurses in community-based care settings
Cynthia McDaniel MSN RN, NurseLearn CEO
Types of Community-Based Care Settings
- Assisted living
- Residential care facilities
- Memory care
- Adult foster homes
- In-home care
Why are these NurseLearn courses and programs so important for nurses?
Interactive CBC Courses
Our growing catalog of CBC courses make up a comprehensive CBC-focused curriculum that are competency-based, interactive and culturally informed.
Why Join the Enhanced Program?
CBC Nurse Mentorship
Participants in the Enhanced Program receive 1:1 mentorship, coaching, and support from experienced community-based nurses, both with the courses and in their practice.
Professional CBC Community
CBC Nurse Connect is a private, professional community platform that enables Enhanced Program participants to engage with CBC peers and experts.
Expert CBC Guest Speakers
Participants attend private monthly guest lectures from thought leaders in healthcare and community-based care nursing.
Technical Assistance Sessions
Monthly Technical Assistance Sessions offer webinars with CBC leaders that compliment topics covered in the courses and are followed by real-world case studies that put the topic into practice.
Exclusive Resources
Enhanced Program participants get access to valuable resources relevant to their practice, including assessment and communication forms, planning guidelines, sample service plans, and more.
CBC Meetups
Participants connect with us at community-based care conferences and tradeshows, where NurseLearn organizes meet-ups and casual gatherings to engage with participants face-to-face.
ABOUT NURSELEARN
Strengthen Community-Based Care by Helping Nurses Excel
NurseLearn is a group of expert nurse mentors working together with content creators, designers and project managers determined to bring high quality education, training, mentorship and support to nurses engaged in the vital service of community-based care.
We are an independent company with strong values and led by a team that is mission-driven to bring greater quality to the care given to our elder population.
Our Story
Our mission is to ensure individuals and communities are healthy, thriving, and inclusive by delivering long-term education programs designed to retain, recruit, train and support licensed nurses.
Real People Making an Impact
We are a small squad of people with wide-ranging, complimentary skills and deep experience, dedicated to crafting an engaging online environment that educates and supports nurses in a field long bereft of proper training.
Cynthia McDaniel MSN RN
CEO
Cynthia McDaniel is the founder and CEO of NurseLearn. She has been consulting in the field of elder care and assisted living for more than 30 years.
Grounded in her experience in the field, Cynthia has been involved in developing RN delegation, actively participating in regulation development since the inception of the practice. She was an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, where she developed and led online population-based nursing courses, and she has authored and published multiple online courses related to community-based care.
Cynthia holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Gonzaga University. She is a Fellow of the Sigma Theta Tau/John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy. Today, Cynthia continues to use her community-based care expertise to present and train on a variety of subjects, both locally and nationally.
Cynthia’s experience in the field led her to this simple conclusion that prompted the creation of NurseLearn: Nurses in community-based settings benefit from additional support to thrive in their roles.
Jill Tomich
Chief Product Officer
As the Chief Product Officer at NurseLearn, Jill Tomich plays a key role in the strategic vision of NurseLearn’s products, overseeing the product development process, from conceptualization to market launch, including identifying the needs of our target audience, researching market trends, and gathering feedback from potential users. Jill works closely with a team of designers, engineers, nurse advisors, course creators and other stakeholders to design and develop each product. Throughout the product development journey, Jill ensures that NurseLearn’s products meet high standards of quality, usability, and user experience.
She also collaborates with key stakeholders to create effective business and marketing strategies for bringing the products to market, helps define the product’s unique value proposition, and identifies opportunities for growth and expansion.
Throughout her career, Jill has served in a variety of leadership roles for premier publishers, online training and tech companies, including Pearson Education, Sun Microsystems Education and Training Division, O’Reilly Media and DigitalMed. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to co-found successful ventures such as Slicebooks, a content management platform for higher education, and Hipalerts, a mobile proximity marketing and content platform.
While not at work, Jill enjoys traveling with her family, including her dog Mango, and surfing.
John McDaniel
CFO
John McDaniel has extensive and varied experience in assisted living operations, project management, construction, and asset management. He is a licensed Residential Care Facility Administrator and has been a consultant in community-based care.
Prior to entering the world of elder care, he was a project manager for commercial and residential construction, a general contractor, a professional climbing guide, an operations manager/professional ski patrol director for a ski area, and a safety engineer. John holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Portland State University.
Ron Tomich
CTO, UI/UX
Ron Tomich wears a lot of hats. He is a platform developer, designer, content creator, startup founder, publishing executive and international business developer with over 25 years of experience in the technology and publishing industries.
As CTO and UI/UX designer at Nurselearn, Ron currently spearheads the creation, technology strategy, design, maintenance, and rollout of the LMS + Community platform.
Ron previously held a variety of leadership positions in international technology publishing at O’Reilly Media, Manning Publications and Digital Education Systems. His experience includes building local-language publishing offices in Taiwan, China & Japan, distribution & marketing networks throughout the South and Southeast Asia regions, and managing international marketing campaigns, including writing and producing a national documentary about the origins of the internet for CCTV in China. He also co-founded and designed three innovative technology publishing startups, including Slicebooks, which was acquired by a leading consortium of Brazilian higher ed publishers. He’s partial to basketball, surfing, Jason Isbell, Jimmy Page, the author Larry Brown and feisty black dogs. |
Devon Norden
Program Director
Devon Norden is the Program and Outreach Director at NurseLearn, a role he assumed in 2023. Devon oversees the Enhanced Program and facilitates the employer forums, drawing from his extensive legislative policy and management background.
Prior to joining NurseLearn, Devon served as Chief of Staff for multiple legislators in the Oregon State Legislature, where he focused on healthcare, transportation, emergency management, and government policy. His experience in the legislature has equipped him with a deep understanding of policy development and community engagement.
Devon is dedicated to using his expertise to support the mission of NurseLearn and help nurses thrive in community-based settings.
Alayna Amrein
Communications Coordinator
Alayna Amrein joined NurseLearn as the Communications Coordinator in 2023. In her role, she manages internal communications with participants of NurseLearn’s Enhanced Program and external communications, including recruitment and outreach for both the Standard and Enhanced Programs. In addition to coordinating NurseLearn communications, she also facilitates NurseLearn’s Schools of Nursing Project.
Alayna comes to NurseLearn with a background in political communications, science communication, and community outreach. |
July Lamague-Test MN RN NE-BC GERO-BC
Lead Nurse Mentor
July Lumague-Test MN RN NE-BC GERO-BC is a Registered Nurse with over 10 years of experience in CBC and is the Lead Nurse Mentor at NurseLearn. Prior to her nursing career, July was an educator in the special education field. In that role, she was trained to view each student as a whole person outside of their diagnosis, medical needs, and disABILITIES.
This paved the path to her growth in prioritizing resident-centered care as a nurse in community-based care settings. In addition to her role as a director of nursing in an assisted living facility, July has also worked as a Clinical/Operational Nurse Consultant in various community-based care settings, specializing in organizational development, training and education, nurse advocacy, and leadership and health systems management.
Completing a graduate program in Health Systems and Organizational Leadership at Oregon Health and Science University and becoming a board-certified Nurse Executive and Gerontological RN, July has dedicated her career to supporting, guiding, and advocating for nurses in their community-based care journey.
Anna Vakarchuk RN BS
Nurse Mentor
Anna Vakarchuk has been a Registered Nurse for over 15 years with 20+ years of overall healthcare experience. Anna obtained her bachelor’s degree in the Science of Nursing from Oregon Health and Science University.
With an interest in post-acute and community-based care, Anna has held positions in residential care settings, hospice settings, and has worked as a Clinical/Operational Nurse Consultant in various community-based care settings. As a consultant, Anna’s work has focused on quality improvement, presurvey preparation, and staff training. As a hospice and residential care nurse, her work centered around her passion for compassionate patient care, problem solving, teaching, and operations.
Heather Campbell RN BSN NHA, GERO-BC
Nurse Mentor
Heather Campbell is a Registered Nurse with 25 years of experience working with the oldpopulation in a variety of settings including Community Based Care, Skilled Nursing and Adult/Geriatric Psych. She graduated from Sullivan University with an Associate Degree in Nursing and from Chamberlain University with her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. In 2021 she became a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator and in 2024, Heather became board-certified in Gero Nursing.
Heather first came to Oregon as a traveling Director of Nursing where she provided guidance to communities in regulatory compliance and implemented improvements to their overall clinical systems. After falling in love with the state, she decided to stay and later started working as a Regional Nurse Consultant in Skilled Nursing and a Clinical/Operational Consultant in Community Based Care.
Kala Linville BSN RN
Nurse Mentor
Kala Linville has been a Registered Nurse for over 20 years, graduating from Oregon Health & Science University in 2003 and later becoming a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer and Everything DiSC Certified Trainer.
Before joining the community-based care sector in 2014, she enjoyed many different areas of nursing, including teaching CNA classes and working as a Clinical/Operational Nurse Consultant.
Working with staff and clients of all different ages and backgrounds is one of the things Kala loves most about working in community-based care.
Mango
Security Chief
Mango
Mango – short for “Mangolita Easter Moon Patzscuaro the Boho Dog” – is a former street dog from Patzscuaro, a small Spanish colonial village in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. While Ron and Jill Tomich were having breakfast at a Patzscuaro outdoor cafe on Easter Eve, 2019, the puppy Mango wandered up the road making the restaurant rounds and found both Ron’s tortillas and a new life. She enjoys squirrels, bunnies, squeaky toys, chicken liver, a warm beach and sectional sofas, and she is reliably fierce at guarding the hardware and personnel who keep the NurseLearn platform running. |
Ella
Security Apprentice
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