Education:

• Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator (LCCE).
• Currently, pursuing doctorate at the University of St. Thomas in Education Leadership.

Course Content Areas:

• ADTN/FMHN 358, Individual and Family Transitions
• ADTN 352, clinical in the Acute OB setting
• Professional specialty area is maternity

Research Interests:

• Spirituality and birth
• Cultural care
• Critical thinking through storytelling
• Nonpharmacologic nursing interventions during labor and birth
• For the past 3 years (during spring break), has taken a group of nursing students for a clinical cultural experience at a nurse-managed Birthcenter located at the border of Texas and Mexico.
• Facilitate several student independent/directed studies with a focus in maternal-child health.

Service:

• Undergraduate curriculum committee
• Youth mission trip leader; International Nursing Education committee
• Task Force for Representative Behaviors, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
• School of Nursing Accreditation Subgroup member
• Search and Screen committee member for Adult Health Nursing Chair
• Honors advisor