About Tammy
I'm Tammy Rumberger, a registered nurse. After more than thirty years caring for patients, I now spend my days helping families understand and navigate a parent's medical care.
Why I do this
Caring for other people has always been in my nature. It is the reason I became a nurse, and after more than thirty years it is still the part of this work that matters most to me.
I have spent my career in some of the most demanding corners of medicine: intensive care, the emergency room, OB-GYN, orthopedics, and med-surg. For twelve of those years I taught, helping train the CNAs, LPNs, and RNs who would go on to care for others. Later, as a hospice case manager, I walked beside families through the hardest days they will ever face.
In every one of those settings, I kept seeing the same thing. It was never that the doctors and nurses did not care. It was that families were left alone to make sense of it all: a discharge plan nobody explained, doctors who never spoke to each other, a parent who nodded along in the appointment and understood almost none of it by the time they got home.
That is the gap I decided to fill. Today I work as a private registered nurse advocate, hired by families, not by a hospital or an agency. I help you understand and navigate your parent's care team. I do not replace it. I make sure you are never the only person in the room who knows what is going on.
Thirty years at the bedside
More than thirty years of nursing
I have worked across ICU, ER, OB-GYN, orthopedics, and med-surg, the high-stakes units where you learn to read the whole patient, not just the chart. There is very little I have not seen at the bedside.
Twelve years teaching new nurses
For twelve years I helped train CNAs, LPNs, and RNs. Teaching taught me how to take something clinical and complicated and make it make sense to someone hearing it for the first time, which is most of what I do for families now.
Hospice and diabetes experience
As a hospice case manager I guided families through long, frightening transitions one step at a time. Earlier in my career I taught alongside physicians in a diabetes program, working with lab interpretation, insulin, nutrition, and glucose monitoring, the clinical background behind the chronic condition guidance I offer families today.
I make sure you are never the only person in the room who knows what is going on.
People do better when they feel heard
Years at the bedside taught me something simple: people do better, and families cope better, when they feel truly heard. A frightening diagnosis is even harder when you feel rushed, talked over, or left to work it out on your own.
So when I work with your family, I slow things down. I listen to what you are actually worried about, and I make sure your questions get answered, in the appointment and long after it. I bring three decades of clinical experience with me, but what families tell me they remember most is simply that, for once, someone was in their corner.
This is not coaching, and it is not a wellness program. It is practical advocacy from a nurse who has spent a career at the bedside and now spends it beside families like yours, helping you understand and navigate the care your parent is already receiving.
Tell me about your family
If your family is facing a parent's diagnosis, a hospital discharge, or simply more medical decisions than anyone can keep track of, I would be glad to help. One free call is the best place to start.
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