Faculty Bio Detail
Rhonda Ramirez - EdD, FNP
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Email: rramirez@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN-FNP)
Telephone: 510.869.6511 ext. 2684
Address: 3100 Summit St., 3rd Floor
Oakland - CA 94609
For the past 10 years I have been a Family Nurse Practitioner at Native American Health Center in Oakland providing care to primary care patients and at Alameda High School-Based Clinic providing care to adolescents. Both settings have been extremely rewarding to me. Each semester I invite FNP interns to precept at both of my clinics to gain the valuable experience I have come to cherish.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
Advanced Health Assessment, Synthesis, Clinical Practicum and Internship, Professional Roles and Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing
Research Interests:
Native American Youth and Tribal Identity to overcome alcohol abuse and maintain wellness on the Red Road
Publications and Presentations:
Publication: Native American Youth and Alcohol: Wellness on the Red Road, The Applied Anthropologist, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spr 2007;
Presentations: Resilience, Recovery, and the Red Road: Native American Youth Refiguring Tribal Identity--Dissertation Research Presentation, Spring Science Symposium, Samuel Merritt University, 2006;
Panel presentation on Narrative Identity, Sociocultural Foundations, University of San Francisco, School of Education, 2006;
Resilience, Recovery, and the Red Road: Native American Youth Refiguring Tribal Identity--Panel presentation, Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM 2005.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Interpretive Healthcare in a Global World: A Critical Hermeneutic Inquiry, Nu Xi (Sigma Theta Tau) Research Award
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
International Development Projects:
Service and Learning Tour, Burma and Laos, 2005.
Service and Learning Tour, Northern Thailand & Burma Medical Project.
Professional Memberships:
Delegate, California Association for Nurse Practitioners;
American College of Nurse Practitioners;
Sigma Theta Tau International;
American College of Clinicians;
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties;
International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nurse Network;
Society for Applied Anthropology
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Email: rramirez@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN-FNP)
Telephone: 510.869.6511 ext. 2684
Address: 3100 Summit St., 3rd Floor
Oakland - CA 94609
For the past 10 years I have been a Family Nurse Practitioner at Native American Health Center in Oakland providing care to primary care patients and at Alameda High School-Based Clinic providing care to adolescents. Both settings have been extremely rewarding to me. Each semester I invite FNP interns to precept at both of my clinics to gain the valuable experience I have come to cherish.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
Advanced Health Assessment, Synthesis, Clinical Practicum and Internship, Professional Roles and Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing
Research Interests:
Native American Youth and Tribal Identity to overcome alcohol abuse and maintain wellness on the Red Road
Publications and Presentations:
Publication: Native American Youth and Alcohol: Wellness on the Red Road, The Applied Anthropologist, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spr 2007;
Presentations: Resilience, Recovery, and the Red Road: Native American Youth Refiguring Tribal Identity--Dissertation Research Presentation, Spring Science Symposium, Samuel Merritt University, 2006;
Panel presentation on Narrative Identity, Sociocultural Foundations, University of San Francisco, School of Education, 2006;
Resilience, Recovery, and the Red Road: Native American Youth Refiguring Tribal Identity--Panel presentation, Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM 2005.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Interpretive Healthcare in a Global World: A Critical Hermeneutic Inquiry, Nu Xi (Sigma Theta Tau) Research Award
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
International Development Projects:
Service and Learning Tour, Burma and Laos, 2005.
Service and Learning Tour, Northern Thailand & Burma Medical Project.
Professional Memberships:
Delegate, California Association for Nurse Practitioners;
American College of Nurse Practitioners;
Sigma Theta Tau International;
American College of Clinicians;
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties;
International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nurse Network;
Society for Applied Anthropology