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My name is Rashid Shaibu and I am married with five children.  I am an immigrant from Ghana in West Africa, and I currently live in Columbus Ohio.  I was a Chartered Accountant Level 3 in Gahana till I immigrated to the USA in 2007. I am a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and I have a deep commitment to serving others and optimizing individuals' health and wellbeing.  I studied nursing at Otterbein University receiving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in 2015.  I received my Masters's of Science in Nursing (MSN) in 2019 at Ohio State University specializing in Family Practice. I recently received my post graduate Certification in Psychiatric Mental Health in Nursing at Northern Kentucky University in 2023. 

I have spent my entire career as a registered nurse at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center on the Orthopedic and General Medical Surgical unit floating to every unit including Step Down and Cardiac until 2020. I have been practicing as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) since 2019 as a full-time employee till the end of January 2023.  I changed to part time status to fulfill my responsibility as a full-time faculty here at the University of Rio Grande. Prior joining Rio as a faculty member, I taught one year at Mount Carmel College of Nursing as an adjunct faculty member teaching Pharmacology and Clinicals.