About me
Sandra Gonzalez Graham is currently a Nurse Consultant for the Washington State Board of Nursing with a focus on Nursing Assistant Education programs, including high school and hospital based partnerships in rural settings. Her passion for increasing education access to a diverse workforce comes from Forty-seven years of working with multicultural populations as nurse, nurse educator, and currently a nurse regulator for Nursing Assistant programs. Sandra’s innate interest in streamlining processes and reducing barriers for student/candidates for the Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation inspired her collaboration (FAST-Facilitating Accelerated Skills Testing for NAC) for Washington State candidates. Much of Sandra’s work is applying language acquisition strategies in the classroom in Allied Health, Nursing and Online education settings. Sandra’s Master of Science in Nursing Education, and her dual career as a Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter has created opportunities in healthcare education program development. Most recently she participated as video content contributor for Washington State Nursing Assistant • Nursing Assistant Curriculum Framework in 2021. In the interpreter community, Sandra presented at IMIA (International Medical Interpreter Association) conference at Harvard Medical School in 2016. The topic of “Simulation Labs for Healthcare students and Medical Interpreters” was introduced by using multidisciplinary approach to learning in practice labs.
