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Shelly Collins, RN
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| | Shelly Collins, RN, graduated in 1981 from Samuel Merritt School of Nursing in Oakland, CA. Shelly worked for twelve years as an RN for SutterMemorialHospital. She worked in Pediatrics, in the Intensive Care Unit, and then in the on-call pool working in many units. At this point, Shelly took a break from hospital work and worked as an Advice RN for eight years.
In March of 2003 Shelly started working with Dr. Hassid. Her RN duties include: education, trials, refills and coordination of the Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Adult Program for the treatment of Spasticity, teaching workshops for the Chronic Pain Program, Neurobehavioral Program trainer, HeartMath biofeedback trainer, education classes, and restorative health programs. She also spends time with patients individually as needed. | |
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| | Shelly's most cherished job is being a wife and mother to four children. She enjoys running, yoga, cooking, gardening, making jam and enjoying family and friends. Her husband is a farmer of "Belgian Endive". Shelly enjoys good health and a simple balanced lifestyle. To her, work and her personal life are one. She believes in practicing what she preaches, living a healthy lifestyle and always striving for balance.
"Practicing integrative medicine just makes perfect sense to me. You can't just treat a symptom, achieving wellness is about treating the whole person. Just ask James who came to us with new onset of headaches, high blood pressure, fatigue and insomnia. He was taking an anti-Anxiety pill, a blood pressure pill and a sleeping pill prescribed by his primary care doctor. He felt worse on the pills. He was worried about his health and scared. He had just lost his job, had a new home with a wife and two kids to support. We offered him a different plan of treatment. After attending my stress management class, using the cranial electrical unit and attending sessions of HeartMath biofeedback, he improved drastically and the medications were discontinued. James felt like his old self again." | |
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