Associate Degree Nursing Faculty
Brookhaven College

Karen Bravo joined the Brookhaven/Mountain View Nursing faculty in fall 2007. Her teaching experience includes second- and fourth-semester clinicals at Tarrant County Nursing. She has also taught third-semester medical-surgical nursing plus clinicals and psychiatric clinicals at El Centro. She was responsible for starting El Centro’s Student Nurse Association, which has expanded to almost 100 students.

Having earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Baylor University, she earned her master’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Although initially enrolled in UTA’s family nurse practitioner master’s program, she switched to the administrative track, providing her with a balanced nursing/business career path. Her expertise lies in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, both as a provider and senior manager. She has worked in psychiatric nursing in drug and alcohol addiction and codependency and became the national clinic director of nurses for Quality Care Dialysis centers in 1991.

In 1986, Ms. Bravo pioneered Texas at-home dialysis (Home Intensive Care Dialysis, part of a national company) in the DFW area, enlarging the program to almost 100 at-home patients in four years. After the company was sold, she was fundamental in the establishment of another national company, Renex Corp. Dialysis. Her upper-level administrative duties included the completion of seven policy and procedure manuals, fiscal and operational responsibilities, training, speaking engagements and national travel.

Other experience includes serving as vascular access manager at Parkland Memorial Hospital, working closely with world-renowned surgeon Dr. Ingmar Davidson.