Martha Harmon is an Assistant Professor in the Nursing Program and Coordinator for the School Nurse Credential Program at California State University, Northridge. Her entire career track has been in community health and public health. She began her career as a staff nurse on a 20-bed communicable disease unit at San Bernardino County Hospital. Since that time she has practiced nursing as: a public health nurse for Los Angeles County Health Department, a school nurse for Los Angeles Unified School District, a home health nurse and nurse manager for Inter-City Home Health Association, and as Director of Home Patient Services for Kaiser Foundation Hospital Los Angeles Medical Center. During her academic programs she worked as a teaching assistant in the UCLA School of Nursing and as a research assistant in studies at the UCLA School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Culture and Health. She obtained her Baccalaureate degree from Loma Linda University, with a major in nursing and a minor in sociology. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with both a Master of Nursing degree and a Master of Business Administration. From the third grade she has had an inquiring mind and enjoyed learning, which, over the years, has included just reading the encyclopedia. She has shared her love of learning with her family, her staff, her students, and those with whom she comes into contact. She was thrilled to be inducted into the Gamma Tau Chapter of STTI on October 15, 2005, as a community leader.
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