Retail Clinics: Bringing Health Care to the Neighborhood

Wanda Jacob¹

• ¹Wanda Jacob, BSN, RN, started her nursing career straight out of high school, first as a licensed vocational nurse and in 1991 she became an RN. She spent most of her nursing career in maternal child nursing, with a focus on neonatal and pediatric intensive care nursing. She is often asked how she could do work in the neonatal intensive care unit and pediatric intensive care unit, and her answer has always been, "Nursing has a place for all of us, I couldn't do adults, so someone had to take care of the 'little people.'" Wanda was a Daisy Award recipient for Kaiser Hospital in Los Angeles in 2010. She returned to school and received her BSN, and in 2012, she transitioned into nursing informatics and is currently the Clinical Systems Nurse Project Manager and member of the Clinical Content Team at Kaiser Permanente Health Connect in Pasadena, CA. When she is not working, Wanda loves to travel with her camera. Wanda is an extraordinary person who gave the gift of love and family by raising her 2 nephews. Today, those young men are successful, due to her guidance; one has a BA in Criminal Justice and works as a Probation Officer and the other is now an U.S. Army Reservist.