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San Diego, California, United States

• Systematic planning and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team to coordinate patient/family care.
• Provide safe care to multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
• Using the nurses process and critical thinking to provide patient care incorporating mind, body and spirit; individualized, goal directed and consistent with standards of safety.
• Identify actual and potential patient problems for which patient is at risk.
• Continuous re-evaluation of patient/family needs and adjust plan of care as required.
• Identify needs for referrals based on patient assessment information.

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for the delivery of safe patient care utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Provides direct patient care within the RN scope of practice. Directing and guiding patient and family teaching, as well as the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining standards of care within multiple.

Greater San Diego Area

Deliver quality patient care by contributing to the nursing care plan from admission to discharge. Assessment of patient’s progress and keep family informed. Monitor pain management procedures, discharge planning process, ensure current and accurate patient documentation, supervise LVNs and CNAs. safe medication administration, wound treatment.

Greater San Diego Area

Create new course syllabus and lab assignments for introductory biology class. Prepare lectures, labs, quizzes, tests, paper and presentation assignments for new college students in accordance with University Policies and Procedures. Grading, feedback and mentorship to ensure student success.

1586 W San Marcos Blvd San Marcos, CA 92078

Unit manager for all shifts at 120 bed Skilled Nursing facility. Providing nursing care to residents, coordinating care, implementing policies and procedures and ensuring compliance with California Department of Health regulation and Federal Health Care administration regulations. Communicated daily with patients/family, doctors, and staff to coordinate.

Hired to quickly produce proteins for siRNA encapsulation using Chimerasome technology. Rapidly cloned and expressed several mutant proteins in Ecoli for pre-clinical trials. Streamlined existing protocols and modified purification scheme to eliminate endotoxin contamination problem.

Researched and developed novel sepsis target capture agents using company’s proprietary ADAPT technology. Found literature leads on sepsis target, procured samples and kinetically characterized using Octet RED96 Bio-layer interferometer. Purified capture agents and covalently attached to solid supports and measured elimination rates and amounts for various.

Protein expression, process development, assay development, research on new leads.

Manager, Quality Systems 2009-2010 NexBio Inc, San Diego, Ca.Research Scientist II/IT Manager 2006-2009 Post Doctoral Researcher 2005-2006 Mined literature for drug leads and developed expression and purification systems and screened candidates for drug activity. Used structure based drug design to refine and improve biological activity of drug leads based.

2002-2004, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of WashingtonCloned, expressed, purified (AKTA FPLCs) and crystallized new proteins and protein/drug complexes. Collected x-ray diffraction data in house and at synchotrons and solved crystal structures using molecular replacement. Advised IT staff during migration from legacy SGI systems to commodity.

Given three projects and responsible for gathering all needed resources for their completion. Success at all projects given to me required an additional year of work to finish. Grew and infected plants in greenhouses with viruses. Harvested plant tissue and created novel purification and crystallization techniques according to needs of project. Spear.

Trained as both a field medic (emergency medicine) and hospital nurse. Passed federal EMT registration course. Basic; Attached to 1/214 Aviation unit at Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center as part of medical staff maintaining medical records, handling sick call, doing height/weight measurements and building software to handle weight management.

University of California RiversideI was fortunate to work in an RNA lab as an undergraduate where technique was critical and experiments were carefully planned and executed giving me the foundation for becoming a skilled scientist. Conducted luciferase assays to compare different promoters. Cloned and tested poly-A binding protein and eIF4B interactions in.

Master'S Degree, Nursing Informatics

This nursing informatics program combines nursing science with data management, analyzation, and communication, leading to data that.

Bachelor'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, 3.8

Activities and Societies: San Diego American Association of Critical Care Nurses Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.

Phd, Molecular Biology And Biochemistry

Bs, Biochemistry

High School Diploma, Science