Richard MacIntyre believes that his life began at 18 when he moved to Santa Barbara, majoring in English literature at UCSB. A falling out with his parents led him to take a job as an orderly at Cottage Hospital, and then the RN program at SBCC. After graduation, he moved to San Francisco, joined Children's Hospital SF as a staff nurse and later McAuley Neuropsychiatric Institute at St. Mary's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Oakland, as a nursing supervisor. He joined SMU just before the AIDS pandemic started, co-founded the Nurses Coalition on AIDS, the west coast precursor of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and worked part time as a hospice nurse. Patricia Benner and Wiilliam Holzemer guided him through a PhD and a post-doc in HIV-AIDS Nursing at UCSF. His first sabbatical was a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Tromsø, Norway. In 1998 he left Samuel Merritt University to become the founding Division Chair for Health Sciences at Mercy College in New York and held academic appointments at New York Medical College and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He returned to Samuel Merritt University as Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Nursing in 2005 and completed a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship in 2009. He led the team that developed a new RN to BSN program grounded in Watson's Caring Science, launched the program, completed the six-month Caritas Coach Education Program intensive and certification as a HeartMath trainer. His second sabbatical begins in Fall 2019 and will focus on outcomes of the caring science framework in the RN to BSN program.