Meet the CNO
Carol Robinson - UCDavis MC |
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Carol A. Robinson, RN, MPA, CNAA, FAAN
Director of Nursing/Chief Patient Care Services Officer
University of California Davis Heath System
Carol Robinson, RN, MPA, CNAA, FAAN, is the DON/Senior Associate Director of Patient Care Services for the University of California Davis Health System, located in Sacramento, California. Carol received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia in 1973 and her Master in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California in 1986. Carol became a Johnson and Johnson Wharton Fellow in 1996 and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2002.
Carol is a member of American Association of Critical Care Nurses; American Organization of Nurse Executives; American Trauma Society; Association of California Nurse Leaders; Sigma Theta Tau, Zeta Eta Chapter, Nursing Honor Society and past President of Soroptimist International of Sacramento, Inc. She has also served as chairperson for Healthy Communities Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Association of California Nurse Leaders.
Carol has been a Sacramento area resident since 1980. However, prior to this she held a variety of nursing positions on the East Coast including staff nurse, charge nurse in ICU/CCU; hospital nursing supervisor; assistant director of nursing and critical care coordinator. She accepted the position of Assistant Director of Hospital and Clinics, Critical Care/Emergency Services at the University of California Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) when she came to Sacramento in 1980. She was in that position until 1991 when she was selected for the Director of Nursing/ Associate Director of Hospital and Clinics, Patient Care Services position, also at UCDMC.
Her important career/business accomplishments are: achieving designation as a Magnet Hospital, April 1997; involvement in the development of UCDMC Level I Trauma Center Program and chairperson of the Davis Tower Building Committee for a $150 million replacement patient care building.
Carol has received many honors and awards, authored several articles, and been an invited speaker at both national and international meetings.
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