Petra A. Martinez, MSN, BSN, RN received her Associate Degree from
Del Mar College, Bachelors Degree from Corpus Christi State University and
Masters Degree from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She is currently
responsible for the Nursing Learning Resource Lab in which she coordinates
and oversees student practice skills labs and skills check off for junior and
senior
nursing students. She is a clinical faculty for fundamental & Med Surg
students.
She started her career in nursing as a Medical Surgical nurse with Oncology
focus
in
which she did bedside nursing care and charge nurse. Other experiences
include
staff nurse and charge nurse in an Outpatient Surgery Unit responsible for preop,
post op care of surgical patients, minor procedures, lumbar punctures,
thoracentesis, paracentesis, spinal blocks, urodynamic studies and chemotherapy
administration. She was an endocopy nurse - esophagascopies,
colonoscopies,
ERCPs and peg placements.
She has worked as an Education Coordinator with responsibilities as
the clinical
educator
for Medical Surgical units, outpatient clinics. She was responsible for
hospital
orientation and nursing orientation as well as nursing course such
as
Chemotherapy Qualification, IV Therapy, Charge Nurse, Med Surg, and Preceptor
Program.
She was manager of the Education Department for a year.
She has worked as CNE coordinator for programs in M/S, OB, Newborn,
Oncology,
Trauma, Pediatric, and Critical Care. She works with various
organizations
on CE programs for Nurses, as RN planner for these various
programs. She
is the current CNE chairperson for TAMU-CC CON.
She volunteers and current is the president for Nurse Oncology
Education Program Area
Workgroup III, which brings Oncology programs to
local nurses. She
is a volunteer for
the American Cancer Society, currently Team
Captain for a Relay for Life team and a CPR instructor trainer for the American
Heart
Association and the March of Dimes.
She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau EtA Omicron Chapter.
