EDUCATION 
PhD 2013,  Texas Woman’s University Denton, Texas

MSN 2001, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Texas

BSN 1990, Arizona State UniversityTempe, Arizona

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACTING CHAIRPERSON, PROFESSOR June 2021-current
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, Texas
Acting Chairperson – Department of Nurse Education. Managing day-to-day operations; budget; faculty teaching assignments; faculty evaluations.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR 2013-2021
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, Texas
Oversight of VN/ADN nursing curriculum; advising; assisting with Chairperson duties as directed; Description of work

FACULTY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 2008-2013
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, Texas
Full-time nursing faculty member teaching assigned theory/lab and clinical courses.

FACULTY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2003-2008
Del Mar College  Corpus Christi, Texas
Full-time nursing faculty member teaching assigned theory/lab and clinical courses.

FACULTY, INSTRUCTOR 1999-2003
Del Mar College Corpus Christi, Texas
Full-time VN nursing member teaching assigned theory/lab and clinical courses.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
· Texas Board of Nursing – Innovative Pilot Project: Expanding Number of Clinical Students Using Preceptors. (January 2018-December 2019)
· Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI). Participation with Custom Assessment Builder Pilot (2016)
· Created on-line courses for Health Information and Technology Program (spring 2012)
Participated with a faculty member from the English department on the Contextual Learning and Integrated Curriculum (CLIC) Perkins Grant (2007).
· Designed New Nursing Faculty Mentoring Program for the Registered Nurse Program, Del Mar College (2007).

PUBLICATIONS
Served as reviewer and question writer: NCLEX- RN Questions and Answers Made Incredibly Easy. (2004).
In Springhouse (Ed.). (3rd ed.), Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins. ISBN: 1-58255-450-1.

Served as reviewer and question writer: Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy. (2003).
In Springhouse (Ed.), Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins. ISBN: 1-58225-269-X

PRESENTATIONS
“Findings from Innovative Pilot Program” Austin, TX/Texas Board of Nursing Board Meeting January 23, 2020

“Presentation of RN to BSN Program Track” Austin, TX/Texas Board of Nursing Board Meeting January 23, 2020 (co-presenter)

“Implementing a Concept-Based Curriculum” San Antonio, TX/TCCTA and TOADN conference, February 21, 2015 (co-presenter)

Grants
Participated on Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board:
Nursing Innovation Grant Program- Building lab and Simulation Capacity Grant,
January 2015-December 2016.
Grant proposal successfully obtained to replace 10% of clinical hours with simulation hours due to decreasing clinical space in associated health care facilities.

Participated on Texas Workforce Commission Grant:
Nursing Mentorship Program. December 2014- May 2016.  
 Grant proposal successfully obtained to assist in increasing the number of nursing preceptors for the nursing program.
 Faculty Grant (POD grant) spring 2009: Grant proposal successfully obtained that requested funding for consultant to conduct CNE review course for faculty.