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API Tasked with Identifying Trends in Patient Care,
Directing AACN’s Future
The Advanced Practice Institute (API) Work Group
engages in an ongoing process of collecting and validating data to identify
trends, issues and perspectives. Before the board makes decisions about
AACN’s strategic direction, the data are analyzed for their current and
prospective impact on the association and its members. The purpose of the API
Work Group is to address issues and practice needs related to the role of
advanced practice nursing in the areas of acute and critical care.
The members of the 2007-2008 API Work Group are Nancy
Munro, chair, Susan Allison, Carrie Horton, Peggy Kirkwood, Lisa Milonovich,
Linda Tamburri and Janice Wojcik.
Nancy Munro
Nancy Munro |
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Munro is an acute care nurse practitioner at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., where she directs care
for critically ill oncologic and immunologically compromised patients. She also
teaches at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Nursing.
Munro is a member and former president of the Greater
Washington Area Chapter of AACN. She was previously active in the Atlanta
Chapter and a chapter advisor for Region 4. In addition to her current work on
the API Work Group, she was a member of the NTI Work Group, chair of the
Advanced Practice Work Group and a former AACN board member.
Munro has lectured extensively on many subjects,
including the roles of clinical nurse specialists and ACNPs, CCRN review,
off-pump bypass, prone positioning and antibiotics and microbiology labs. Her
many publications include the article: “The Nurse Practitioner: The
Communication Link for the Cardiac Surgery Patient” and a chapter on acute
coronary syndromes in “AACN’s Critical Care Nursing Text.”
She earned her BSN from Villanova University,
Villanova, Pa., an MN from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., and her ACNP from
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Susan Allison
Susan Allison |
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Allison is a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist
at St. Vincent’s East, Birmingham, Ala. She is also certified as an
advanced cardiac life support instructor and a basic life support instructor.
In addition to being a member of the 2007-2008 API
Work Group, she has served as an item writer for AACN Certification Corporation
and a CE reviewer. She has given presentations or taught classes on acute
coronary artery syndrome, mechanical ventilation, women and AMI, basic
dysrhythmia, death and dying, temporary pacing and ACLS. She is a member and
immediate past membership chair of the Greater Birmingham Chapter.
Allison earned a BSN from the University of Alabama in
Huntsville and her MSN from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she
received an award as “Outstanding Graduate Student.”
Carrie Horton
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Carrie Horton |
Horton is a clinical nurse specialist in the Critical
Care/Emergency Department at St. Anthony North Hospital in Westminster, Colo.,
and is pursuing her PhD in nursing at the University of Colorado, Denver.
An active member of AACN since 1985, Horton has
volunteered in a variety of roles including the 2007-2008 API Work Group, the
Continuing Education Review Panel 2005-2006, and as a CCRN ambassador since
2004. She previously served as membership chair and program chair for the
Greater Kansas City Chapter of AACN, where she is currently a member. Her
memberships also include the National Association of Clinical Nurse
Specialists, Sigma Theta Tau International, the Emergency Nurses Association,
and several others.
She has co-written articles for the Journal of
Cardiovascular Nursing and Critical Pathways in Cardiology
and given presentations on the subjects of 12-lead EKG interpretation, DVT
awareness, CCRN reviews and acutely decompensated heart failure.
Horton earned a master of science in nursing at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City and her bachelor of science in nursing at
Rockhurst/Research College of Nursing, Kansas City, Mo.
Peggy Kirkwood
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Kirkwood has more than 30 years of nursing experience.
She is currently a cardiovascular acute care nurse practitioner and clinical
decision unit coordinator at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center, Mission
Viejo, Calif. In addition, she is a nurse practitioner in the Heart Failure
Program at Mission Internal Medical Group, where she manages the care of heart
failure patients in the program.
She has served on various committees for National
AACN, including the Cardiac Medicine Certification (CMC) Exam Development
Committee, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNPC) Exam Development Committee,
Review Panel for Creative Solutions Posters and Advanced Practice Institute
Work Group. At the chapter level, her roles have included president of the
Board of Directors for AACN’s Atlanta Area Chapter. She is currently an
active member of AACN’s Greater Long Beach (Calif.) Area Chapter. Her
professional memberships also include Sigma Theta Tau, American College of
Nurse Practitioners, American Heart Association, American Association of Heart
Failure Nurses and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Kirkwood has a master of science in nursing from the
University of California, Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor of science in
nursing from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. and an associate degree in nursing
from College of Lake County, Grayslake, Ill.
Lisa Milonovich
Lisa Milonovich |
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Milonovich is a pediatric critical care nurse
practitioner, Critical Care Services at Children’s Medical Center Dallas,
a 411-bed tertiary care pediatric teaching facility, where she has worked since
1985. She is also adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington,
School of Nursing.
In addition to the API Work Group, Milonovich has
served on numerous other AACN committees, including the Progressive Care Task
Force, the Pediatric Advisory Team and the Continuing Education Articles
Review Panel. She is also a member of the Society of
Critical Care Medicine and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse
Practitioners.
She has co-authored articles for many publications
including Critical Care Nurse, AACN Clinical Issues
(Now AACN Advanced Critical Care) and AACN Core Curriculum
for Pediatric Critical Care Nursing. She has lectured extensively on
pediatric spinal cord injuries, sepsis, emerging science in pediatric acute
care, and many other topics.
Milonovich received a bachelor of science in nursing
from the University of Akron in Ohio and a master of science in nursing from
the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Linda Tamburri
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Linda Tamburri |
Tamburri is a clinical nurse specialist for Critical
Care Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.
She has published and presented on a variety of critical care topics, with a
focus on organ donation, sleep in the critically ill and care of patients with
pulmonary disease.
As a member of AACN for 25 years, Tamburri has served
as president of the Central New Jersey Chapter and has been active at the
national level. She was elected to the Nominating Committee in 2002, and was a
member of the Ethics Work Group the following year. She has also been a member
of the Board Advisory Team, the Research and Creative Solutions Abstract Review
Panel, and the Membership and Chapter Awards Review Panel.
Tamburri earned her master of science in adult
critical care nursing from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, College
of Nursing, Newark and her bachelor of science from Seton Hall University,
College of Nursing, South Orange, N.J. She is also certified as an instructor
of basic life support.
Janice Wojcik
Janice Wojcik |
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Wojcik, a member of the AACN Board of Directors and
the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors, is an advanced practice
nurse in critical care at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in
Paterson, N.J.
A member of AACN since 1987, Wojcik served as the
Region 3 Chapter Advisory Team representative from 2002 to 2004 and Chapter
Advisory Team leader from 2004 to 2005. She has also volunteered on a number of
panels and advisory teams at the national level, including the NTI Abstract
Review Panel, Chapter and Membership Award Review Panel, Board Advisory Team
and Advanced Practice Advisory Team, and she was an AACN/CCRN ambassador.
Wojcik has served as a member of the AACN Nominating Committee and the
Strategic Thinking Committee, as well as AACN board liaison to the Healthy Work
Environments, National Teaching Institute, and Advanced Practice Institute work
groups.
Wojcik is a member of several AACN chapters, and is a
member and past president of AACN’s Northern New Jersey Chapter. She
earned her bachelor of science in nursing and her master of science in nursing
from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. |
