Professional Degrees

• Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco, 1997
• M.S.N., University of California, San Francisco, 1987
• B.S.N., California State University, Chico, 1984

Certifications and Credentials 

• Child-Adolscent Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
• State of California Public Health Nurse Certificate

Courses

• NURS 169 - Clinical Reasoning and Critical Thinking
• NURS 194 - Independent Study (Nurse Internship)

Research Interests

• Workforce Development
• Obesity
• Alternative interventions for stress reduction
• Health disparities

Professional Activities

• Qualitative Health Research Editorial Board Member
• Council of Nurse Researchers, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Member
• Sigma Theta Tau Interrnational Honor Society of Nursing, Zeta Eta Chapter, Member
• HRSA Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) Objective Review Committee, 2011
• International Society of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurses, Member

Publications

• Raingruber, B., & Robinson, C. (2010) Chapter 9. Sustaining purpose and motivation: Weaving caring and self-care. In Interpretive Phenomenology. Patricia Benner (Ed). Sigma Theta Tau International Press.
• Raingruber, B. (2009). Asilomar and other interpretive poems. In Monica Prendergast, Carl Leggo and Pauline Sameshima (Eds.). Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences, pp. 259-274, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.
• Raingruber, B. (2009). Assigning poetry reading as a way of introducing students to qualitative data analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(8), 1753-1761.
• Steen, J., Gould, E., Raingruber, B., & Hill, J. (2009). Effect of student nurse intern position on ease of transition from student nurse to RN. Journal for Nurses in Staff Development.
• Milstein, J., Raingruber, B., Bennett, S., Kon, A., Winn, C. & Paterniti, D. (2009). Burnout assessment in house officers: Evaluation of an intervention to reduce stress, Medical Teacher, 31(4), 375-378.
• Stanton, Raingruber, Aguilar-Gaxiola. Statewide Consumer Networrk Grant iH79SM059859-01. Community Collaboration for Continuinty of care. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration.
• Ambassador of Diversity Individual Award, University of California Davis Medical Center, 2010