Gail Sims

Gail Sims serves as a Patient Care Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente in Roseville, CA. She served as the Director of Nursing at Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, CA for 8 years. She has also been a nurse surveyor for the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for the past 11 years. During the past thirty-nine years, nursing leadership and clinical management have been the main focus of her professional practice. She has been an Infection Control Nurse in long term and acute care settings on two separate occasions and served as adjunct faculty at two universities in their BSN programs. She has also served on the national board for the professional specialty organization of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses and has advocated for health care reform in Washington DC with the ARN Board on three annual Hill visits. She has presented rehabilitation nursing topics at ARN national conferences and annual symposiums throughout her career. She has contributed to three rehabilitation nursing textbooks as well as two professional nursing journals.