Biographies

Robert Dunlop

I'm relatively new to Nursing as a career. I spent close to two years working in a Med/Surg - Tele unit, and now work in critical care at the San Francisco Medical Center . In my non-nursing career experience I had the opportunity to work in a number of fields, the most recent of which was a 15+ year stint in Information Technology as a Systems Engineer and Database Administrator. My leap into nursing was aided by a dearth of jobs for contract programmers in 2001, and a dream-inspired reawakening of my interest in Medicine and working as a professional care giver.

In 2002 I was accepted into Samuel Merritt College 's Entry Level Accelerated Masters in Nursing program. Although very intense, I loved the program, and couldn't be more pleased with my decision to pursue a career in Nursing. Upon graduation in 2005 I was awarded the Outstanding Student in Case Management award. My undergraduate degree from U.C. Davis was in Bacteriology (now Microbiology), and while that educational focus didn't play a direct role in my various vocations until entering Nursing School, it did provide a solid background in several scientific disciplines, and fostered a lifelong interest in the world around me, and how things work at a fundamental level.

Since my employment with Kaiser I've had the good fortune to serve as a Visiting Clinical Expert for the initial roll out of the Inpatient portion of HealthConnect at Kaiser South Sacramento. My role there focused on training the staff in the use of the new system, as well as evaluation of the system. Now, happily, I've been invited to join the Nursing Research Committee. I look forward to the opportunity to serve in such a potentially influential role.

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