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Deborah S. Boroughs

Deborah S. Boroughs MSN, RN

Nursing, Healthcare Management
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Deborah Boroughs, RN, MSN, has extensive professional and personal experience in the management of medically complex children. As an advanced practice nurse, she led a professional team of nurses and social workers as the director of the Pennsylvania Ventilator Assisted Children’s Home Program (VACHP), a Pennsylvania Department of Health program with offices at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. She is a much-published author of professional journal articles and textbook chapters, and a lecturer about care of the complex pediatric patient. She has taught pediatric and community health nursing at two universities. She currently serves as a consultant to home care agencies, an expert witness for legal cases, and a nurse educator of home care nurses. Personally, she is the mother of eight children, six of whom are adopted and have complex health care needs, including two ventilator-dependent children.

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