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     Dr.

Peggy Walsh Goebel, RN, BSN, MSN, DNSc

Director, Vocational Nursing,
Health Sciences

Room 4073
Race Building
Santa Rosa Campus

Telephone: (707) 527-4290 - Cell phone: (707) 292-5680
Fax: 707-527-4426
pgoebel@santarosa.edu

Welcome to NRV 51, NRV 51L and NRV 58A - your first semester of this three semester VN Program. I look forward to helping you prepare to graduate and take the state exam - the NCLEX-PN in becoming a LVN. Ready....set....here we go!

Schedule

  • Monday
       0800 - 1200 NRV 51Theory 4076 Race
       12:00 - 12:30 NRV 51L Clinical Outrotation Conference 4076 Race
       12:30 - 1:30 Office Hour 4073 Race

  • Tuesday
       0800 - 1200 NRV 51 Theory 4076 Race
       12:00 - 1:00 Office Hour 4073 Race
       4:00 pm - 6:00 pm VN Faculty Meeting - 4th Tuesday of month 4084 Race

  • Wednesday
       10:00 - 3:00 NRV 51L Clinical Out rotation visits off campus
       3:00 - 4:00 Office Hour by appt, email or voicemail 4073 Race

  • Thursday
       0800 - 3:00 NRV 51L Clinical Out rotations visits off campus
       3:00 - 4:00 Office Hours by appt, email or voicemail 4073 Race

  • Friday
       8:00 - 3:00 NRV 51L Clinical Out rotations visits off campus

Classes

Biography

    Peggy Walsh Goebel has taught and practiced nursing since 1971. She is currently serving as the Director of the Vocational Nursing Program. She has taught RN and VN nursing at SRJC since 1976 and has taught a summer class in the Master's in Nursing Program on culture and health care for Dominican University since 2000.

    Peggy was born, raised and educated in San Francisco, she is a Northern California native! Peggy has two grown children, Cindy, married to Ron, and Jeff. She has two grandchildren Charley Jack born 11/24/08 and she is just thrilled about him!Cali Nicolene born 4/20/11.

    Peggy received her BS in Nursing and Public Health Nursing Certificate from the University of San Francisco. She earned a school health nursing certificate, her MSN in nursing with a focus in both maternal and pediatric nursing from UCSF and her doctorate from UCSF. Her Doctoral focus was in the area of Maternal and Family Nursing. Her research was on Paternal Touch and Outcomes for the Low Birthweight Preterm infant. She served as a Research Assistant for 5 years while in graduate school on a National Institute of Health Grant with Dr. Sandra Weiss, on Caregiver Touch and Outcomes of Low Birthweight Infants from which her doctorate work is based. She has an early childhood education credential and taught for 2 years for the San Francisco Unified School District in their early childhood development program. Peggy has designed and taught Spanish Immersion Health Care and Language Programs for both SRJC and Dominican University in Ensenada Mexico

    Peggy is bilingual and bicultural in Spanish. She lived and worked as a peace corps volunteer in rural Honduras, Central America. Her work in Honduras included: running a rural health clinic, Public Health Outreach work, designing, teaching and supervising a Rural Health Promotor Program and disaster relief health care management. She coordinated international relief efforts after Hurricane FIFI, which included flying in dozens of helicopter evacuation missions and coordinating international relief team efforts. She returned to Honduras with her grown children to do disaster relief work after Hurricane Mitch. She is an active member on the US Peace Corps Crisis Corps and a trained Red Cross Disaster Relief Nurse. While on Sabbatical, in the summer of 2007 and 2009, Peggy worked as a nurse for Project HOPE aboard the USNS Comfort on a Presidential Humanitarian Health Care Mission to Latin America. She worked with Project HOPE in a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia in the summer of 2010. She enjoys providing much needed nursing care to those less fortunate. She hopes to join another Project HOPE mission to Africa.

    Peggy has worked clinically in many areas and levels of health care. She has worked as an RN in the acute care setting in the areas of maternal child, labor and delivery, medical surgical nursing, and intensive care nursing. She worked in public health, maternal child health, rural clinic and disaster health care in Honduras.

    Peggy's health care teaching experience started in the US Peace Corps, teaching semi-literature rural village women to return to their villages as basic health care providers. She wrote a grant and obtained funding from Spain to sponsor this as an ongoing program in Honduras. While in graduate school at UCSF, she taught as a clinical instructor in the BS Nursing program. She has taught both maternal child and medical surgical nursing at SRJC in the RN and VN programs since 1976. Peggy has served as past Assistant Director of the ADN Program for over 15 years and RN 2nd year course coordinator.

    Peggy's SRJC college service includes current membership and participation on the: Academic Senate,the Faculty Recognition Committee, The District Institutional Planning Counsel, and past participation in the District Budget Advisory, All Faculty Association, Health Services Advisory, Faculty Technology Committee, SRJC accreditation committees, Faculty Professional Staff Development committee and the Staff Development Committee.

Education

    Univ of San Francisco: BSN/Public Health Certificate 1971
    University of California SF School Health Nursing 1972
    US Peace Corps Spanish Lang/Culture 1973
    University of California SF MSN(MCN & Pediatrics) 1976
    University of California SF Doctorate in Nursing Science 2000
    Hundreds of CEU's in: MCN, MS, Pedi
    VETI Computer Conf Series Tech applied to Educa. 1999-2002

Academic Experience

    San Francisco Unified School District Early Childhood Education
    U.S. Peace Corps, Honduras, CA Public Health Rural Clinic
    & Rural Health Care Promotors
    University of California SF BSN Program, Clinical Instructor
    Santa Rosa Junior College Nsg 75 C Mat/Child & Pedi Nsg.
    Santa Rosa Junior College Nsg 75 A,B,D, Med/Surg Nursing
    Santa Rosa Junior College Nurses on the NET
    Santa Rosa Junior College Hlth Care & Lang Immersion,Mexico
    Santa Rosa Junior College HC 50, Medical Terminology
    Santa Rosa Junior College IV Therapy Class
    Santa Rosa Junior College Pre-Hospital Emergency Class
    Santa Rosa Junior College Home Care Nurse Preceptor Class
    Santa Rosa Junior College RN Preceptor Development Class
    Santa Rosa Junior College Medical Assistant Program Sub
    Santa Rosa Junior College NRV 51, NRV 51L NRV 58A, B and C
    Santa Rosa Junior College NRV 52.1, NRV 52.2, NRV 52.2L,
    Santa Rosa Junior College NRV 53, NRV 53L

Professional Areas of Interest

    Maternal Child Nursing
    Disaster Relief Nursing
    Culture and Health Care
    Nursing Technology
    Spanish Language
    Latin Culture and Health Care
    Red Cross
    Sonoma County Emergency Medical Reserve Corps
    Sigma Theta Tau, active member
    Project HOPE Summer 07, 09 and 10

Professional Involvement and Community Service

    District Committees:

    Academic Senate
    All Faculty Association
    Faculty Recognition Committee
    Department Chairs Counsel
    Health Science Program Coordinators
    SRJC Accreditation, Standard 1 committee
    Institutional Planning Counsel

    Community Service:

    American Red Cross, Disaster Nursing Volunteer
    Sonoma County Emergency Medical Reserve Corps
    Crisis Corps
    Past President and Vice President of St. Eugenes PTO
    Past Girl Scout Leader
    Past Member SR United Board
    California Children's Health Care Volunteer
    Project HOPE Volunteer, Latin America Mission Summer 07

Presentations and Publications

    Sigma Theta Tau: Research on Paternal Touch, Spring Conference 2003
    Sigma Theta Tau: Project HOPE and USNS Humanitarian Health Mission Oct 2007
    SRJC Board of Trustees: Sabbatical Award Report, Project HOPE Mission May 2008
    Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary, Project HOPE mission June 2008

Honors and Awards

    1985 SRJC Distinguished Faculty Award
    1991 SR Diocese Volunteer Family of the year award
    1992 St. Eugene's PTO president, leadership award
    1992 Girl Scout's Green Angel Service Award
    2002 NISOD Award, National Institute of Teaching and Leadership Excellence
    2004 SRJC Tauzer Lecturer Award and Presentor
    2004 SR Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Teaching Award
    2004 California State Legislature's Excellence in Teaching Award
    2007 USNS Comfort Distinguished Service Award
    2007 Project HOPE Volunteer Distinguished Service Award
    2007 U.S. President's Volunteer Service Award
    2007 Santa Rosa Chapter, Red Cross "Hero" nominee
    2008 SRJC Sabbatical Report Excellence Award

Links

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