Shanita Scotland, RN-BSN CLNC

Shanita is originally from St Joseph, Dominica. She is an alumni of Long Island University school of Nursing in Brooklyn, New York. Shanita is a Registered Nurse with experience in the field of critical care, emergency, wound care, Forensics, health education, stroke care, spinal cord injury, disaster, and trauma. She is also a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (CLNC).

Shanita has volunteered with the greater New York Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy as a field nurse. She has volunteered in missions in the US and overseas. She served as the medical mission coordinator of two successful medical mission trips to Dominica.

In 2010 and 2011, she was part of a Global Social Entrepreneurship program which went to Sierra Leone to help improve the efficiency of health services, meeting with the community leaders in Freetown and administrators of Connaught Hospital. The team also volunteered at the West Africa fistula foundation in Sierra Leone. There, they taught the staff infection control practices and healthy habits for the safety of post-op patients.

Shanita’s other achievements include: being a Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges inductee while at LIU. She was a recipient of the Caribbean American Health Care Awards 2017 and NACLI 2017 Beacon Award with a US House of Representatives recognition for her outstanding contribution to the improvement of Healthcare in New York.