Your Private RN Patient Advocate, Southwest Florida
I am a private RN who works only for your family, helping you understand diagnoses, organize medications, and coordinate care, so no one faces the medical system alone.
- Licensed Florida RN
- 30+ years of nursing experience
- Serving Southwest Florida, in person and virtually
- Free discovery call
A registered nurse who works for your family
I spent more than thirty years at the bedside, in intensive care, the emergency room, and hospice case management, before becoming a private advocate for families across Southwest Florida.
Today I am the nurse families hire to help them understand a diagnosis, coordinate a parent's doctors, and make sense of every decision, so no one has to face the medical system alone.
The nurse beside your family, not a replacement for your care team
Most families meet the medical system at its hardest moment. A hospital discharge, a sudden diagnosis, a parent who now has six specialists and no one connecting the dots. A private RN care advocate is the person you hire to stand in that gap. Tammy Rumberger is a registered nurse who works for your family, not the hospital and not a staffing agency.
This is not a home-care aide. Most local help is paid by the hour to assist with bathing, dressing, and medication reminders. This is a registered nurse putting her training to work, reviewing medications for interactions, coordinating among physicians, and translating what each appointment actually means for your family.
I help your family understand and navigate your care team. I don't replace it.
Tell me what's overwhelming you
Care rarely arrives one problem at a time. Choose what's weighing on your family, and see how Tammy steps in.
What having an RN advocate actually looks like
She reads the whole chart
Before anything else, Tammy gathers the full picture, every diagnosis, every medication, every specialist, so your family is working from one clear record instead of scattered pieces.
She sits in on the appointment
In person or by video, Tammy is in the room, asking the questions you don't know to ask and writing down what the doctor actually meant.
She translates it for the family
Afterward, you get plain language, not medical jargon. What was decided, what it means, and what happens next, in words everyone can follow.
She keeps everyone aligned
Tammy carries the full picture from one office to the next, so your parent's care stops falling through the gaps between providers.
Three ways to bring clarity
Patient Advocacy & Care Coordination
Tammy attends appointments, interprets discharge instructions, and keeps a parent's doctors working from the same page. For families coordinating an aging parent's overall care, she is the steady point of contact who makes the whole picture make sense.
Learn moreChronic Condition Guidance
Guidance for the chronic conditions that come with aging, diabetes most of all, the one Tammy knows most deeply. She helps families understand a diagnosis, the daily numbers, and the medication schedule, and know what to raise with the doctor.
Learn moreMedication Review & Reconciliation
Tammy reviews everything a parent takes, prescriptions, over-the-counter remedies, and supplements, then flags interactions and duplications. Your family gets a plain-language summary, and the doctor gets a clear, current list.
Learn moreThree decades of nursing, now in your family's corner
Tammy has spent her career making sense of complicated medical situations. That experience is what she brings to your family.
A registered nurse, through and through
More than thirty years of clinical and teaching experience across ICU, ER, OB-GYN, orthopedics, and med-surg, plus hospice case management. There is very little Tammy has not seen at the bedside, and that career is the foundation her advocacy practice is built on.
Respected by the physicians she has worked with
Tammy has spent her career earning the trust of the doctors she has worked alongside, the kind of credibility that helps your family's voice carry weight when it matters.
Close to home, or wherever you are
In person across Sarasota, Charlotte, and Lee counties, including North Port, Sarasota, Venice, Port Charlotte, and Fort Myers, and by video for families anywhere.
A steady presence for the whole family
From the first overwhelming diagnosis to the decisions that follow, Tammy sits down with your family and makes sure everyone understands what comes next.
You don't have to navigate this alone
One free call is enough to know whether Tammy is the right fit for your family. If she is, you will finally have an experienced nurse helping you understand every decision ahead.
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