BIOKORO WILSON GRACE
Dekalb,IL
Summary
Hardworking Nurse & Health Educator passionate about improving individual and community health through education and public awareness, with the ability to work with multicultural and interdisciplinary team of health professionals. Ready to offer four years of related experience to a fast-paced position with a growing organization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Research Assistant
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
DEKLAB, IL
02.2022 - Current
- Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
- Utilize research skills and library resources to assist P-20 Center staff and Illinois P-20 Network partners in providing background research and landscape analysis of best practices with regards to health care-related careers instruction and health care simulations specifically as well as with regards to pop-up learning laboratory environments.
- Collect and aggregate data, conduct research (including creation and submission of proposal/documentation for the Institutional Review Board), data audits, and inventory current and future Illinois P-20 Network partner needs and activities.
- Develop healthcare simulation scenarios with support from faculty and staff for use in the field with practitioners and pre-service practitioners.
- Proofread publications, collect and organize data, transcribe data, synthesize and summarize data, and demonstrate strong writing skills.
- Collaborate on publications and conference presentations particularly with the NIU STEAM and Illinois P-20 Network teams as well as with partners of these teams.
- Plan, organize, and prepare health care simulation materials, supplies, and equipment for use by faculty and with students as well as health care simulation events and partnerships.
- Assist with preparation of materials, collect samples, review needs, and propose projects.
- Set-up and management of technology and AV equipment, including but not limited to infant mannequins/simulators, computers, and projectors.
- Provide support to the Center for P-20 Engagement during events and programs.
Research Interviewer
NIU COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DEKLAB, IL
09.2021 - Current
- Remained highly educated in various software packages by regularly attending training and webinars.
- Used strong and eloquent speaking skills in delivering questions to survey participants by phone and prompting responses to complete questionnaires.
- Directed updates and changes in survey implementation and methods.
- Entered responses from survey participants into internal database to later compile reports or conduct analysis.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
Health Educator
The Lighthouse Rescue Mission
Hattiesburg, MS
09.2019 - 11.2020
- Promoted available resources and connected individuals with services.
- Led planning and achievement of goals and objectives consistent with agency mission and philosophy.
- Administered job knowledge assessments and competency testing for certification-level training.
- Provided necessary health education training for patients
Survey Assistant
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
10.2018 - 11.2018
- Utilized established field surveying strategies to perform high-quality work.
- Performed boundary, topographic and traverse land surveys.
Quality Assurance Officer, Head of Medical Service
Green Field Health Management Limited
Abuja, F.C.T
02.2018 - 08.2018
- Executed corrective actions when test controls were outside specified limits.
- Maintained confidentiality of all patient information to conform to HIPAA, internal and other regulatory standards.
- Kept laboratory in compliance with all applicable guidelines and laws.
- Resolved all issues efficiently and built excellent client rapport, which led to enhanced customer satisfaction ratings.
- Monitored activities and supporting systems, making sure each met all compliance regulations.
Staff Midwife
Nigerian Army hospital Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria
12.2016 - 11.2017
- Maintained professional conduct operating under midwifery and neonatal nursing care guidelines.
- Modeled holistic care encompassing physiology, sociology, psychology of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.
- Anticipated deviations of normal infant deliveries to safeguard patients and newborns.
- Watched vital signs, checked for comfort levels and monitored emotional states of mothers before, during and after labor.
- Assisted in over 50 successful births and provided post-partum counseling for struggling families to increase happiness and health of newborns and mothers.
- Checked general and mental health and overall comfort of mothers in prenatal appointments.
Nursing Officer
Raeab Hospital
Abuja, Nigeria
08.2016 - 11.2016
- Maximized staff and patient protections by enforcing optimal disease prevention protocols.
- Discussed patient care and treatment with care team members to optimize intervention plans and care delivery.
- Coordinated patient care services and managed clinical cost control.
- Designed and implemented standards of care for nursing and patient care.
- Followed all HIPAA rules and regulations regarding patient confidentiality.
- Provided direct nursing care to patients when personnel was short-staffed.
- Ordered all pharmacy supplies and kept check on inventory levels.
- Offered patients and patrons information on various immunizations including flu, DTaP and HPV vaccines.
- Communicated with patients, ensuring that medical information was kept private.
Education
Master of Science - Public Health
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL08.2024
Master of Public Health - Health Education
University Of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS05.2021
Bachelor of Nursing Science - Nursing
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
NIGERIA06.2016
Undergraduate Thesis -
Babcock University
Nigeria06.2015
Skills
- Excellent comport and typing skills
- Microsoft office suite
- Good verbal and non-verbal communication
- Customer Relationship Management
- Microsoft Suite & Microsoft office suite
- Nursing skills
- Public speaking
- Quality assurance
- Health education
- Problem resolution
- Grant writing
Certification
2019
Certified Health Education Specilaist(CHES)
2018.
*Maternal and Child Health Strategies in Public Health
*Emergency Risk Communication
*Call Centre in Health Care Training
*Customer Retention Strategies. Training
2017.
Nigeria Registered Nurse and Midwife
2015.
EC-Council Customer Relationship Management
Affiliations
- Psychiatry nursing
- Accident and emergency care
- Public health nursing
- Case Management Intern
Timeline
Research Assistant
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
02.2022 - Current
Research Interviewer
NIU COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES
09.2021 - Current
Health Educator
The Lighthouse Rescue Mission
09.2019 - 11.2020
Survey Assistant
The University of Southern Mississippi
10.2018 - 11.2018
Quality Assurance Officer, Head of Medical Service
Green Field Health Management Limited
02.2018 - 08.2018
Staff Midwife
Nigerian Army hospital Ibadan
12.2016 - 11.2017
Nursing Officer
Raeab Hospital
08.2016 - 11.2016
Master of Science - Public Health
Northern Illinois University
Master of Public Health - Health Education
University Of Southern Mississippi
Bachelor of Nursing Science - Nursing
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
Undergraduate Thesis -
Babcock University
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