I am a clinical nurse specialist/lecturer (Maternal/Neonatal Nursing) working as a lecturer at Egerton University, Faculty of Health Sciences.My career objective is to effectively, innovatively, and professionally perform my duties and responsibilities as per the mission, vision, and objectives of Egerton University in a manner that promotes my career aspirations while advancing the overall goals of the organization.
My career aspirations are to be an expert in clinical, teaching, students supervision, and research and to pursue scholarly excellence, and generate and disseminate knowledge and skills to students, healthcare workers, and the community and act as my students mentor and more so Participate in national-wide capacity building activities on behalf of the university.
I have a special interest in Reproductive health policy implementation gaps mainly in Maternal and Neonatal health. Therefore, in line with my research aspirations on Women‘s Sexual and Reproductive Health rights through combating the run-away Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) that includes Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), I have been involved in the improvement of health care for girls and women living with FGM and advocate, educate and create a supportive environment for socio-cultural change all aimed at abandoning FGM/C.Therefore through collaborations with teams from the Nairobi university under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the school of medicine in the College of Health Sciences and Africa coordinating Centre for abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (ACCAF) whose goal is the abandonment of FGM/C in the African region in skills improvements in health care providers and the creation of teams in care provision, I have participated in an ongoing Research in Baringo county on prevention of FGM/C where the practice is common, using person-centered communication: An Implementation Research project which currently takes place in Guinea, Somalia and Kenya under WHO/UON/ACCAF.
I'm currently a trainer in the “Simulation on wheels and water safety project’ which is a partnership between; The Embassy of Israel, Nakuru County Government, Egerton University, Technion , Center for Global Engagement(Technion), Israel Institute of Technology and Mashav aimed at training health care workers and CHVs on life saving skills
