Courses Taught
GNRS 504 – Bioethics and Health PolicyGNRS 574 – Foundations of Professional Nursing
UNRS 306 – Theoretical Frameworks for Nursing
UNRS 410 – Community Health Nursing
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Presentations
"Decades of Making a Difference," Sigma Theta Tau Induction Ceremony, April 20, 2007
"Decades of Making a Difference," Sigma Theta Tau Induction Ceremony, April 20, 2007
Professional Experience
Clinical Work
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 1977-1979. Staff RN and relief charge nurse in local community hospital. Served three months as short term missionary at small rural hospital in Shell, Ecuador.
Public Health Nurse, Field PHN for Orange and San Bernardino Counties, 1979-1988, 1999-2001. Various roles in PHN specialties such as child sexual abuse, high risk infants, TB and communicable disease follow-up, Spanish speaking case loads, pre- and postnatal care for prison inmates, parenting education for inmates, senior citizen health clinics, school health, SIDS follow-up, child abuse prevention, family health.
Clinical Instructor for Community Health Nursing, 1999-present. Instruction and supervision of senior level community health nursing students at the Neighborhood Wellness Center and other community health settings.
Assistant to the Director of the Neighborhood Wellness Center, 1999-2007. Assisting in managing and developing the programs and outreach of the center through health assessment, health education and disease prevention, and referral services for drop-in visitors.
Consulting Engagements
Consultant and Reviewer for Medcom, 2007. Reviewed community health curriculum for nursing education development company.
Industry Experience
Reviewer and Editor for CINAHL 2006-2007. Reviewed and edited short disease articles for brief but comprehensive disease information product for nurses and health professionals.
Nurse Indexer for RNdex and CINAHL databases, 1996-2007. Reviewed and indexed a broad range of nursing and healthcare literature for professional database.
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 1977-1979. Staff RN and relief charge nurse in local community hospital. Served three months as short term missionary at small rural hospital in Shell, Ecuador.
Public Health Nurse, Field PHN for Orange and San Bernardino Counties, 1979-1988, 1999-2001. Various roles in PHN specialties such as child sexual abuse, high risk infants, TB and communicable disease follow-up, Spanish speaking case loads, pre- and postnatal care for prison inmates, parenting education for inmates, senior citizen health clinics, school health, SIDS follow-up, child abuse prevention, family health.
Clinical Instructor for Community Health Nursing, 1999-present. Instruction and supervision of senior level community health nursing students at the Neighborhood Wellness Center and other community health settings.
Assistant to the Director of the Neighborhood Wellness Center, 1999-2007. Assisting in managing and developing the programs and outreach of the center through health assessment, health education and disease prevention, and referral services for drop-in visitors.
Consulting Engagements
Consultant and Reviewer for Medcom, 2007. Reviewed community health curriculum for nursing education development company.
Industry Experience
Reviewer and Editor for CINAHL 2006-2007. Reviewed and edited short disease articles for brief but comprehensive disease information product for nurses and health professionals.
Nurse Indexer for RNdex and CINAHL databases, 1996-2007. Reviewed and indexed a broad range of nursing and healthcare literature for professional database.
Special Interests and Activities
Voluntary assistance to local hospice chaplain with a bereavement support group as well as a support group for families of Alzheimer patients
Volunteer for School of Nursing Winter Shelter Clinic
Volunteer for School of Nursing Winter Shelter Clinic
