Damien Draconum
Portrait of Damien Draconum
Author, educator, developer

Damien
Draconum

Author and app developer. Nurse, licensed EMT, and college nursing and EMT instructor. K9 trainer, licensed private investigator, NRA certified firearms instructor, and computer and IT professional.

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Books

Textbooks and references for those who study in order to work, along with history and fiction.

Clinical and Professional Reference

Sourced references for the people responsible for care, compliance and competence.

Emergency Medical Services

For EMT students and the exam ahead of them, built to teach the reasoning as well as the answer.

Nursing

Complete courses for nurse assistants and vocational nurses, in plain language, with the practice that makes it stick.

The Working Dog Series

Training the working dog the way police, military and search programs do, from first decisions to the long career.

History and Folklore

The stranger, more shadowed recesses of the human record, with what is documented kept apart from what is legend.

Fiction

Software

Apps

Built for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

  • More than 1,900 practice questions, each one explained, with skills checklists, patient scenarios and an honest read on how ready you are.

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  • Written and skills exam preparation for California CNA candidates, with 1,000+ practice questions, 1,200+ flashcards and every testable skill. All of it works offline.

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  • Students study their ECG technician or restorative nurse assistant course online or offline, with lessons that can read themselves aloud.

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  • CNAs, LVNs, RNs and caregivers take assigned courses, pass the post-test and earn a verifiable certificate from their phone.

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  • Kinbria

    Lifestyle

    A free co-parenting app that keeps a secure, permanent record of every message and calendar change between co-parents.

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  • AttendVia

    Education

    Students at participating schools clock in and out of class with a code from the front of the room and Face ID or Touch ID.

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  • Veritas

    Computer forensics

    A native Mac suite for forensic imaging, data recovery and evidence analysis on external drives, flash media and disk images.

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The author

About

Damien Draconum writes for those who study in order to work.

His principal labor is a body of medical and clinical texts and professional training textbooks, the sort a reader keeps within reach and returns to, not the sort read once and set aside.

He writes plainly and without shortcuts, favoring accuracy over ornament and structure over persuasion. Now and again his attention turns to social history and biography, to the stranger, more shadowed recesses of the human record, pursued with that same unhurried rigor.

He is a nurse and a licensed EMT, and he served in the United States Army as a combat medic and health care specialist in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He is also a computer and IT professional, and the developer of Veritas, industry-leading computer forensics software.

Military service

  • United States Army combat medic and health care specialist
  • Served in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Combat Medical Badge and Expert Field Medical Badge

Teaching

  • College nursing instructor
  • EMT instructor and NAEMSE Level 2 EMS instructor
  • Nurse assistant instructor and certified Director of Staff Development
  • AHA BLS, ACLS and PALS instructor, and PHTLS instructor
  • NRA certified firearms instructor and Range Safety Officer

Medicine

  • More than 25 years in emergency medicine
  • Nurse, working in emergency care
  • Licensed EMT in California, also certified by the National Registry
  • Certified infection preventionist and wound, skin and ostomy care nurse

Working dogs and security

  • K9 trainer and former explosives and narcotics K9 handler
  • More than 23 years training working dogs
  • Licensed California private investigator
  • Founded and ran a licensed security company with more than 30 armed officers

Computers and technology

  • Computer and IT professional, and former IT business owner
  • Developer of Veritas, industry-leading computer forensics software
  • Independent developer of iPhone, iPad, Mac and web software

Writing and enterprise

  • Author of 10 published books, with more forthcoming
  • Founder of a healthcare education company with state continuing-education provider approvals
  • Designer of its learning management system
  • Juris Doctor (non-practicing)