Faculty Bio Detail

Education

BSN, University of San Francisco

MSN, Dominican University of California


Publications and Presentations:

Thesis

• Cost-Effectiveness Study of Nursing Home Turnover Rates on Registered Nurse Staffing

Presentations

• Heart Failure: Overview, patient and family education, management strategies

• Geriatric curriculum: Aging changes, fall prevention, polypharmacy, nutritional needs, urinary problems, spirituallity

• End of Life issues: Diverse cultural considerations




Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:

Managing Care of Adults II

Managing Care of Adults III

Healthy Aging-N128

Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:

• American Nurses Association

• Sigma Theta Tau: Honor Society of Nursing

• American Geriatrics Society

• American Society on Aging

• Asian American / Pacific Islander Nurses Association

• National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations

• Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science


Research Interests:
• Gerontological Nursing

• Health care Policies and Practices

• Cost-effective Analysis

• Cardiac Heart Failure

• Kidney, Liver, Pancreas transplantation