Ms. Pamela Althea Agee-Lowery, MSN, RN (Nurse Leader Executive) is the Nurse Manager at Douglas County Youth Center (DCYC) in Omaha, Nebraska. DCYC is a 144-bed juvenile detention facility used to house high-risk youth, age 12-19, who have been detained by a juvenile judge for criminal offenses. Pamela has been employed at the Douglas County Youth Center for 16.5 years. Her responsibilities at the youth center range from the oversight of patient/behavioral healthcare, workflow processes and staffing balance to budget planning and policy writing. Amongst her staff, comrades, colleagues, cohorts and kids, she is affectionately known as Nurse Pam.
Prior to employment at DCYC, Nurse Pam was the Director of Nursing (DON) at a Long-Term Care (144 bed skilled nursing facility) Center for 5 years. She was responsibility for patient care, staffing levels, staff training, the clinical budget, annual surveys and a wide range of other duties to vast to outline. Before becoming a DON, Nurse Pam was a Charge Nurse, an Infection Control Nurse, a Nursing Training Coordinator as well as a nursing assistant during nursing school.
Nurse Pamela attended the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) – Lincoln, College of Nursing (1997) for her Bachelors of Science in Nursing and UNMC – Omaha, College of Nursing (2012) for her Masters of Science in Nursing, specializing in Nursing Leadership/Executive. Pamela is also the daughter of a retired Marine and a United States Army Veteran herself.
In her spare time, she serves her community through advocacy. She advocates on behalf of Black women and girls by serving as the 2nd Vice President and 1st Vice President consecutively of the National Coalitions of 100 Black Women, Greater Omaha Chapter (NCBW, GOC). In addition, Nurse Pam served as Madam Chairwoman for the coalitions Mental Health Summit for 3 years, consecutively. Clinically she volunteers as a Nebraska Emergency Systems Healthcare Professional and a CPR instructor for the American Red Cross. Given this and all the aforementioned, her strengths are maximizer, learner, relator, input and empathy according to Franklin Coveys Strength Finders Assessment Tool.
For fun Pamela maintains her expert marksmanship, exercises, reads, cooks, dances and travels the Continental U.S. and abroad.