Our Nurses Share Their Sharp Experience

How has Sharp helped you develop your career?

“Sharp HealthCare has the best training a hospital can offer. Sharp makes sure employees can grow in their careers … Sharp HealthCare values you as an employee.”

— Paul Larimore, emergency room manager

“[At Sharp,] there are so many opportunities to go all over San Diego. You can work at a clinic, a trauma facility or at a doctor's office. There's a lot of opportunity for growth within your own nursing career.”

— Rachel Harrington, BSN, RN

“As a nurse, one thing I can say is that you never want to stop learning. When I was a new nurse, that's what the [Sharp] leadership team did for me — they mentored me and helped me reach goals that I never saw myself.”

— Amber McGuire, clinical lead nurse

How does your team support you?

“I love the teamwork at Sharp Grossmont Emergency Room. I come to work as a nurse, but really, the team has become my friends and my family. We're together, we support each other, and I'm proud to be an emergency room nurse.”

— Kelly Owens, BSN, clinical lead nurse

“What I love about working at Sharp is the people. I get to work with these people and I say, ‘Wow, what you did there was incredible, and we made a difference.’ And that's something that I'll carry with me wherever I go.”

— Julianne Cook, BSN, RN

“I really love working at Sharp for a variety of reasons, but primarily I love the people I work with. So many of them have quickly become my family. I’m not from San Diego — I moved here nine and a half years ago — and there are coworkers who have known me through every life phase. And that makes going to work a real joy.”

— Ellie Matthews, BSN, RN, clinical lead nurse

How would you describe The Sharp Experience?

“I love working at Sharp because we focus on the patient. I always say that I don't know if it's The Sharp Experience that brings a certain type of nurse to Sharp or if really The Sharp Experience molds its nurses that way. But it's one of the things that I really enjoy about Sharp.”

— Riyan Buller, BSN, RN, CEN, clinical lead nurse

“At Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center … the leadership is definitely involved with supporting you and helping you through your day. [Our leaders] have an open-door policy and are easy to communicate with. The goal is the patient, so they're going to do whatever needs to be done to help you help the patient.”

— Dallas Campbell, BSN, RN