SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

I have been a professional nurse since 1993 and am currently a clinical Nurse Educator for the ambulatory setting at Kaiser Permanente. Responsibilities include: • Strong clinical skills/experience. • Design, develop, coordinate, and evaluates activities for continuing professional education for staff. • Communicate educational programs based on identified/assessed needs. • Train new graduate nurses on basic clinical skills such as IV starts, Ear lavage, EKG placement and interpretation, Sterile Technique, and etc. • Develops, implements, monitors, and evaluates/improves the orientation for RNs, LVNs, MAs, and students, cross training and education/competency processes/systems for clinical staff and students in ambulatory diagnostic and interventional settings. • Train staff to become Medical Assistants for Organization. • Demonstrates responsibility for direct patient care, clinical analysis, clinical decision-making, documentation and initiation of nursing actions with the simulation mannequins. • Assist the learner with critical thinking, problem solving using reflection, probing, active listening and other clinical teaching strategies. I am board certified as a Nursing Professional Development by AACN. Due to my current role, I am responsible to training our registry staff annually on administering the seasonal Influenza vaccine to employees and our patient population. I am the lead educator related ambulatory immunizations and found that there is a need for healthcare workers (HCW) to be educated on the Influenza vaccine. With being educated, the likelihood of HCWs adhering to the recommendations to receive the influenza vaccine would increase.