Shaquira Robles-Alsheimer
Shaquira Robles is a dedicated healthcare educator and clinical leader, serving as the Program Concentration Coordinator for Cardiac Diagnostics and Program Leader in Healthcare Education at South College. With a clinical background in cardiac ultrasound, she has advanced through progressive roles into program leadership, overseeing curriculum development, student competency validation, and accreditation compliance in cardiovascular diagnostic medical sonography. Shaquira combines hands-on expertise in echocardiography and cardiac diagnostics with academic leadership, ensuring students are prepared for both registry credentials and real-world clinical practice. Her professional focus emphasizes healthcare risk management and patient safety, guided by a leadership philosophy centered on transparency, teamwork, positivity, neutrality, honesty, and genuine caring. Shaquira earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in health sciences, with her master’s concentrating on Health Care Risk Management. Over approximately 20 years in the field, she has worked as a traveling healthcare professional, delivering patient care across multiple settings, while also engaging in mission work with AdventHealth University and motivational speaking. Throughout her career, Shaquira has been committed to bridging clinical expertise with educational excellence. She collaborates with faculty, clinical affiliates, and administration to create programs that foster student growth, professional competency, and quality patient care. By mentoring future cardiovascular professionals and leading with integrity and positivity, she continues to shape the next generation of healthcare practitioners and advance the field of cardiac diagnostics.
• Nova Southeastern University - MHS
• Advent Health University
• Cum Laude
What do you attribute your success to?
My faith, my children, inspiration from my mother, and the resilience I developed as a single mother.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The interview includes formative guidance from her mother emphasizing independence and resilience; a statistics teacher's remark about low odds for teen mothers also spurred her to prove expectations wrong.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
To any young woman reading this,
I want you to hear this from someone who lived it. I was a teenage mother, and statistically, I wasn’t “supposed” to make it to graduate school. But I refused to let numbers define my future. Your mindset matters more than your circumstances. What you believe about yourself will either limit you or push you forward.
Being a young, single mom didn’t stop me — it built me. It taught me discipline, resilience, and strength I didn’t know I had. That mindset carried me through school and into a career in healthcare.
If you choose healthcare — or any career — choose something you truly love. When you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like a chore. The days are still hard, but they’re meaningful. And in this field especially, your caring must be genuine. Patients can feel the difference. Compassion isn’t optional — it’s essential.
Don’t let your starting point decide your ending. Your story can be your power.
Recap:
Have passion for the work; choose something you love so it doesn't feel like a chore. Caring must be genuine; this is essential when working with patients.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Continued occurrence of clinical errors and medical malpractice highlights the need for stronger healthcare risk management. Emotional challenges and burnout among clinicians are also significant; collaborative, solution-focused leadership is needed.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Transparency, being a team player, remaining positive, neutrality, honesty, caring, faith, and family.
