ARNEC Staff
Robin Mann
Director of ARNEC
Robin Mann leads the University of Arkansas Cossatot as Director of ARNEC. Mann received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UAM as a first-generation student in 2009 and her Master of Science in Nursing Education Clinical Specialist in Pediatrics in 2021. Her professional career as a registered nurse has been spent in labor & delivery, ER, Same Day Surgery, pediatrics, chemotherapy and intravenous infusion, and home health specialties. She holds two national nursing certifications: the National League for Nursing Certified Nurse Educator-Clinical (CNE®cl) and the Society of Simulation in Healthcare Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE). In addition, Mann holds a certificate for chemotherapy infusion nurse, assistant clinical instructor/preceptor skills, ATI Champion Certification, and is an AgriSafe Nurse Scholar. She is member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Gamma XI Chapter, American Nurses Association (ANA), the Arkansas Nurses Association (ArNA), SimGHOST, SSiH, and INACSL. She serves on the Hermitage Public School Agriculture and Business Advisory Committee, Bradley County Economic Development Committee (BCEDC), Grace Cowboy Church Arena Team, and is the Chair of the ARNEC Program Chair and Faculty Committee. She enjoys meeting people of all kinds and listening to their unique life experiences. Mann has a passion for educating families to better care for their loved ones and assisting them to utilize the resources available in underserved rural communities. She resides in Bradley County where she enjoys farming to produce beef cattle and free-range chickens. Her hobbies include barrel racing, rodeos, spending time with her five fur babies, swimming, and gardening.
Murphy Bloomfield
ARNEC Program Specialist
Mrs. Murphy Bloomfield has been employed with the Arkansas Rural Nursing Education Consortium (ARNEC) since 2021 as the Program Specialist. Before 2021 Mrs. Bloomfield worked for ARNEC off and on starting in 2012 as the Administrative Specialist. Mrs. Bloomfield lives in north central Arkansas in a community called Ash Flat with her husband, Zach and their fur babies! Outside of work, she enjoys watching a good Netflix series, raising Brangus cattle on the family owned farm, watching all her nieces and nephews play sports, gardening, and more. Mrs. Bloomfield has a goal for all ARNEC students, and that is to watch them become a successful RN to work in the rural communities of Arkansas.
Robin Jordan
ARNEC Nursing Instructor
Mrs. Robin Jordan graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with her BSN in 1994. She has spent her time bedside nursing in the critical care, cath lab, and step-down units with a focus on caring for cardiac and respiratory patients. Mrs. Jordan has had extensive training experiences with the medical device industry as a clinical specialist with Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson, Inc. That time was spent working in the catheterization and electrophysiology labs collaborating with implanting physicians programming medical devices before and after implantation. She spent three years in the electrophysiology laboratory performing cardiac mapping for ablation procedures.
Mrs. Jordan started as a nursing instructor for the ARNEC program in 2021.
Brooke Baldridge
ARNEC Nursing Instructor
Mrs. Brooke Baldridge has been employed with ARNEC since 2021. Mrs. Baldridge began her nursing career in 2011 after graduating from UAMS College of Nursing in Little Rock, AR. Her nursing background is in Labor & Delivery. Outside of teaching, she enjoys reading, cooking, gardening, celebrity gossip, deer hunting, and watching her son’s baseball and soccer games.
Mrs. Baldridge believes programs like ARNEC are invaluable in strengthening the health and well-being of rural Arkansas' communities, by enhancing the skills and knowledge of the nurses who already serve there.
