Robin B. Email & Phone Number

I am a Registered Nurse with decades of experience across healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and home care. In 2018, I started volunteer service to people in underserved populations with no or limited healthcare resources through a free healthcare clinic in Seattle, WA. I gratefully continue this work which includes patient care during clinic appointments, such as vital signs, PHQ2 and PHQ9, collecting blood and urine samples for on site laboratory tests of random blood sugar, A1C, and urine albumin-creatinine levels, performing ECG, and patient education as ordered/needed.Additionally I assess CNA and EMT for clinic standards prior to volunteering. I review and train these new volunteers for the standards of care of the clinic.In 2018, I began a daily practice exploring and studying mindfulness. In 2021, I completed training at Brown University as a Qualified Level 1 Teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). I offer mindfulness practices, including MBSR online. I created and established a 4 week online course titled, "Fundamentals in Mindfulness" for people who are unable to commit to the 8 week MBSR course. Many participants of both courses have commented of positive changes in their lives after completing either course. Changes of less stress, greater awareness of body tension and how to lower that tension, and noticing more pleasant events in the present moment in their daily lives.

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  California State University, Long Beach

  Nursing Science