Woodside Joins United Helpers

Jordan Woodside, NP

OGDENSBURG – Jordan Woodside, NP has joined United Helpers, complimenting the clinical teams at both Maplewood and RiverLedge campuses by contributing extensive nursing and teaching skills.

If you ask Mr. Woodside when he decided to enter the health care profession, he will tell you that there was no pivotal moment or family influence driving him forward, but if the past several years were any indication, it’s apparent that the health care field had been calling to him.

Mr. Woodside earned his Associate and Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Canton and his Master’s degree from SUNY Upstate. While completing his education, he worked for Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center on various units, filled in as a substitute school nurse, worked per-diem with United Helpers, and taught at SUNY Canton.

“It may sound cliché, but I really do enjoy helping and teaching people,” Mr. Woodside said. “I’ve found the further I go with my training and building my clinical teaching skills, the more I can make that happen.”

One of Mr. Woodside’s functions in his new role as a nurse practitioner will be to provide clinical support and education. To assist with these duties, United Helpers has developed three nursing skills laboratories that are equipped with functioning medical beds, stretchers, simulated oxygen, and other equipment that clinical staff will use and experience. Supplies are readily available for practice so competency can be maintained with every required skill. Training devices for IV insertion and injections plus a variety of mannequins maximize the learning experience of clinical staff within the lab setting. Some of the mannequins have the ability to generate heart, lung and bowel sounds that are beneficial for head to toe physical assessment skills and scenarios.

“Developing, maintaining and utilizing clinical skills is not only essential to providing quality care, it is essential in all of today’s care environments,” said Stacey Cannizzo, Vice President for Quality Improvement and Clinical Services for United Helpers.  “Jordan’s teaching experience at the collegiate level and his extensive background working with medically complex issues is directly in line with our goals. Together with our attending physicians, his training and skill development will help us to better assess, diagnose and get treatment to our residents more quickly, allowing for them to be treated comfortably here, on-site, avoiding hospitalization.  We are very pleased to welcome Jordan to our team.”

United Helpers is the only rehabilitation and long-term care provider in St. Lawrence County that employs nurse practitioners as part of their care team. “I am really looking forward to applying my health care background to the clinical setting at United Helpers. Being the only skilled facility in with a Nurse Practitioner, I strive to set the standard and make a difference in the long-term care setting health care for our community members’ loved ones. The need for quality, timely care does not stop at the doors of one’s admission to United Helpers health care and rehabilitation centers.”

United Helpers offers post-hospital rehabilitation and skilled nursing care at Maplewood Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Canton and RiverLedge Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Ogdensburg. For more information about these or any United Helpers service, please call our navigator at 315-714-3117 or visit www.unitedhelpers.org online.