SUNA Spotlight: Cindy Angle

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Any career that spans 28 years is something to celebrate, but in Cindy Angle’s case, it’s been 28 years in the same urologic outpatient setting.

Currently employed by Genito-Urinary Surgeons/Parkway Surgery Center in Toledo, Ohio, Cindy is an LPN who primarily performs Urodynamics studies for the nine urologists. She also works in Cystoscopy and does Biofeedback/Electrical Stimulation Therapy and Pessary Fittings and is the clinical staff member for the education, follow-up and reprogramming of their Interstim implant patients.

“A job in the urology department of a multi-specialty clinic was my first job interview after graduation and I have never regretted the decision to accept the position when offered and actually started working the following morning,” said Cindy. “I find that working with patients of all ages with both medical and surgical needs is very rewarding.”

While her current situation sounds like a boat-load of duties and responsibilities, Cindy is also a veteran SUNA member, having joined the organization in 1978 after getting her LPN degree in 1976 from Wallace Community College in Dotha, Alabama. She has since completed the LPN med course (1988) and IV course (2002).

“I joined SUNA to become a member of a professional organization in my field of interest and to have a resource for staying current on the newest developments in this field,” Cindy explains. “I became certified by SUNA in 1979 and have renewed my certification to the present time.

“SUNA has provided me with the opportunity to attend seminars, advance my career and network with others in my field. The Journal is always full of great articles and CEU modules in my particular interest and expertise.”

When not working, Cindy and her significant other, Nick, take pride in living in their restored 118-year-old home in historic Maumee, Ohio, and in Gabriel, Cindy’s 11-month-old grandchild. Gabriel’s parents are Cindy’s son, Matt, and his wife, Patty.

“We are finally enjoying the results of many long and strenuous months of restoration work,” Cindy says of the house restoration. “But we have at times considered finding another ‘diamond in the rough’ and doing it all again.”

As a special interest, Cindy became an IC Nurse Mentor this year and has given presentations and diagnostic workshops for physicians and staff throughout Ohio and even into southern Michigan.

“I hope that by helping to further educate clinicians about this often forgotten and misunderstood disease process that fewer IC patients will struggle with their symptoms for years before diagnosis is made,” says Cindy.

SUNA members come and SUNA members go, but Cindy Angle has always been a constant and she intends to keep it that way.

And the Great Lakes SUNA chapter has no complaints either.