Biography

In 2006, Sharna Clark started her nursing career working at Loma Linda University Medical Center in the Total Care Birth Center, a high risk Obstetrics in southern California. In 2011, she took a job with Kaiser Permanente and was part of the team who opened the newly built Kaiser Ontario Medical Center working Labor and Delivery. She moved to northern California in 2013 and worked high risk Labor and Delivery at Mercy Medical Center in Redding until she moved to Vancouver, Washington in 2014 and took a job at Salmon Creek Medical center working high risk Labor and Delivery. In 2016 she became the Clinical Nurse Educator of that unit until 2018 when she moved to Yakima, Washington and became part of the WSU College of Nursing team. She finished her masters degree summer of 2022 in Nursing Informatics. She teaches Health Assessment and facilitates all simulations on the Yakima campus.

Education

• MSN Nursing Informatics – Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• BSN – Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
• BS – Photography, Pacific Union College, Angwin, California

Areas of Expertise

• High Risk OB, Simulation
• RN-BC (board certification, Nursing Informatics)
• RNC-OB (certification, Obstetrics)

Memberships
ANIA

Honors and Awards

• Daisy Award Winner, Legacy Health – Salmon Creek Medical Center, Daisy Foundation, 2016
• Daisy Award Nominee, Kaiser Permanente – Ontario Medical Center,  Daisy Foundation, 2013

Updated 08/25/23