Global Neuro Online Certificate Course—Fundamentals of Neurotrauma Care for Nurses
Launching in Q1, 2024 (Date TBC)
- 22 January - 22 May 2024
- | Online
- Karen March Independent
The online certificate course in Fundamentals of Neurotrauma Care will allow nurses to receive up to date content from the experts that developed most of the actual medical evidence in the field and will also allow scheduled online interaction for students, led by our network of neurotrauma nursing experts.
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Karen March
Independent
Karen March
Independent
Name and Title(s): Karen March MN, RN
Other Affiliations:
NA
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Retired Neuroscience Clinical Nurse Specialist who is volunteering in the Global Health field in Africa
Twyila Lay
SFGH/UCSF
Name and Title(s): Twyila Lay RN, MS, ACNP
Additional biographical information:
Twyila Lay MS, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC, CNRN has been an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for 20+ years and has been with the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, serving as the Program Coordinator for the Brain and Spinal Injury Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center for 15 years. Since 1995 Twyila has held an adjunct clinical faculty position with the Department of Physiology Nursing at UCSF. Ms. Lay Twyila served as President of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) in 2017 and continues to serve on multiple AANN committees. Twyila presents regionally, nationally, and internationally on the topic of Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury.
Claire Lynch
Birmingham City University
Name and Title(s): Claire Lynch
Additional biographical information:
Claire is a Senior Lecture in Adult Nursing in Birmingham, UK. Claire's clinical nursing career has been in Neurosurgical and Nueromedical Nursing and education. Claire has a Post Graduate Diplomna in Neurosciences, Masters in Education and is currently working towards a Doctorate of Education. Claire is a committe member of the British Assoication of Neuroscience Nurses and involved in a number of projects supporting global standarisation of Neuroscience Nursing care. Claire has experience of nursing in a global context through placements in USA and volunteering in the Middle East and is passionate about advancing Neuroscience Nurse education globally.
Mary Guanci
Massachusetts General Hospital(retired)
Name and Title(s): Mary Guanci MSN, RN. CNRN, SCRN FNCS
Other Affiliations:
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Neurocritical care society Critical Care Nurses Associations
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Mary McKenna Guanci MSN.RN.CNRN.SCRN.FNCS. has been a neurosccience nurse for over forty years She recently retired from her 27 year role as Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Neuroscience intensive care at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston ,Ma. She has presented internationally, nationally, and locally on numerous neuroscience toopics including neuroanatomy,trauma, stroke, neurointensive care nursing management and general intensive care considerations.
Ms. Guanci has published articles, chapters, and research on many neuro topics most recetnly the Neurocritical Care guidelines for External Ventricular Drain Management and Targeted Temperature management. She has co-autohored and edited the targeted temperature management chapter for the Core Curriculumn on Neuroscience Nursing . She is the past president for the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and a member of their International neuroscience nurses research symposium Committee.
Rennan Ribeiro
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Name and Title(s): Rennan Ribeiro BSN, RN, CCRN, NCRN
Additional biographical information:
Neuroscience Nurse with experience in educational, management, and neurological patient care area. Charge Nurse of the Neurological ICU (01/17 - 07/21). Nurse at the Neurological ICU at Hospital São Paulo - UNIFESP (02/13 - 01/17). Member of Nursing Leadership Section on Neurocritical Care Society. Nursing preceptor in the Multiprofessional Residency Programs in Neurology and Neurosurgery / Critical Care at UNIFESP. Adult Critical Care Certificated by ABENTI. Nursing specialist in Neurology and Neurosurgery (residency modality by UNIFESP). I have worked as a neurocritical care nurse, author of chapters in books on nursing in neurocritical care, neurology and neurosurgery; as well I have acted as a disseminator of knowledge in neurocritical care, giving courses and lectures in the main events related to critical care in Brazil.
Ava Puccio
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Name and Title(s): Associate Professor Ava Puccio RN, PhD
Other Affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing (Secondary Appointment) Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge (TRACK-TBI)--Biorepository PI
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing, Research Scientist
Additional biographical information:
Ava M. Puccio, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of neurological surgery and also co-director of the Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center in collaboration with David O. Okonkwo, MD, PhD.
Dr. Puccio received her bachelor of science degree in neuroscience in 1988 and bachelor degree in nursing in 1994, both from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1995, she joined the Department of Neurological Surgery as a nurse coordinator on the National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia (NABIS:H) study and also the coordinator for the Brain Trauma Research Center. She pursued advanced schooling to graduate with a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and as a university scholar (top 2% of class) from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing with a doctoral degree, emphasis in neuroscience in 2008. Her dissertation, “Effect of short periods of normobaric hyperoxia on local brain tissue oxygenation and cerebrospinal fluid oxidative stress markers in severe traumatic brain injury” was published in the Journal of Neurotrauma in 2009.
Dr. Puccio was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and received her adjunct faculty position with The School of Nursing, Department of Acute/Tertiary Care in 2010 with collaborations with Yvette Conley, PhD and Richard Henker, RN, PhD. She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2022. Dr. Puccio currently manages a team of on-call nurses, laboratory staff, neuropsychological outcome staff and regulatory staff for several observational and interventional trials involving TBI initiatives with a team science approach. Dr. Puccio is the PI of the National TBI Biorepository which houses biospecimens for several multi-center initiatives, ie. TRACK-TBI and BioBOOST. Her research focus is on blood- and genomics-based biomarker development for TBI, as well as novel therapeutic interventions in TBI clinical trials. Dr. Puccio educates clinical neuro ICU nurses in the pathophysiology and treatment of neurotrauma patients and current research initiatives. In conjunction with David Okonkwo, MD, they instruct residency training on multi-modality placement and management of intracranial catheters for the Management of Severe TBI at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Rebecca Silvers
University of California, San Francsico
Name and Title(s): Rebecca Silvers
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Pediatric neurosurgery, Critical/Intensive care, Emergency care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Rebecca Silvers is an assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francsico. She is the founding director of the UCSF Center for Global Nursing at the Insitute of Global Health Sciences, And she is a pediatric nurse practitioner with clinical positions in pediatric critical care and pediatric neurosurgery at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Rebecca has a long-standing practice in global health focused on capacity building, implementation science, and medical and nursing education in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
Cathy Cartwright
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Name and Title(s): Cathy Cartwright DNP, RN-BC, PCNS, FAAN
Profession: Nurse
Job title: Director of Advanced Practice Professional Development
Other Affiliations:
World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses - President Hydrocephalus Association - Medical Advisory Board
Areas of specialty:
Pediatric neurosurgery
Additional biographical information:
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) - Past-President
Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient, 3rd edition - Co-Editor
Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
Genevieve Smith
UCSF Medical Center
Name and Title(s): Genevieve Smith
Profession: Nurse
Job title: Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Functional neurosurgery, Critical/Intensive care, Neurology
Additional biographical information:
I am a nurse practitioner since 2010 and have practiced exclusively in neurosurgery/neuro-critical care and neuro-trauma. I have a passion for this patient population and for the rapidly growing field of neuroscience. I have been in my current position at UCSF for 2.5 years and have found it a rewarding place to work. I am originally from Zimbabwe and grew-up mostly in South Africa. I am also a mother of 3 and in my spare time I enjoy cycling around Marin and the Bay area.
Rita de Cássia Almeida Vieira
Universidade Federal de Sergipe
Name and Title(s): Rita de Cássia Almeida Vieira
Additional biographical information:
Dr. Rita Vieira PhD, RN is adjunct professor at University of Sergipe Department of Nursing, Lagarto, Brazil. In 2021, Dr. Vieira completed a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Sao Paulo and in 2018 completed a postdoctoral research fellow at University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Vieira is a research member of traumatic brain injury group at the School of Nursing at University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil and coordinator of neurotrauma interdisciplinary study group, Sergipe, Brazil.
Dr. Vieira’s research portfolio focuses on the outcome, follow-up and prognosis models after neurotrauma and traumatic brain injury. Her main areas of interest are traumatic brain injury and diffuse axonal injury in their outcome, prognosis models, quality of life, functionality, and follow-up. She has been part of many different research projects at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine at University of Sao Paulo and University of Sergipe, Brazil.
Her current research and work focus on the recovery, prognosis models and outcome of patients with diffuse axonal injury, traumatic brain injury and stroke. The aims of her project are: 1) to evaluate the recovery of the patient up to one year after trauma and stroke 2) to assess the periodic functionality, and 3) performance of widely used prognostic instruments to predict of the outcome after trauma and stroke.
Her further interests are to understand the physiological mechanisms of how brain recovery occurs after injury, to evaluate the efficacy of prognosis models after traumatic brain injury, to identify which patients which do not recover at the pace predicted and to understand the patterns of the recovery in order to determine the factors that affect the recovery process.
Debra Hemmerle
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL
Name and Title(s): Debra Hemmerle PhD
Profession: Nurse
Job title: Post-doctoral Researcher, Critical Care RN
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Neurology, Research Scientist
Kristen Ghoussaini
Childrens Hospital Oakland
Name and Title(s): Kristen Ghoussaini
Areas of specialty:
Pediatric neurosurgery
Additional biographical information:
Kristen Ghoussaini is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has been working in Pediatric Neurosurgery for over 11 years.
Scout Hebinck
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Name and Title(s): Scout Hebinck MSN, RN-C
Other Affiliations:
Ass. of California Nurse Leaders Institute of Improvement Health Ass. of Operating Room Nurses American Nurses Association
Areas of specialty:
General neurosurgery, Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Emergency care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Scout Hebinck is the Clinical Operations Consultant and Improvement Specialist for Benioff Children’s Hospital. With a clinical background infused with continuous and quality improvement, she tackles initiatives throughout the organization. Scout is a co-author of two text books, a change agent for best practices in healthcare and an all-around child advocate specifically with her work to prepare neurodivergent children for day of surgery. She is a nursing professor at University San Francisco where she instructs master’s students over their clinical nurse leader semester on a quality improvement project. She has also worked in Africa building emergency and trauma programs and in Cuba with maternal health care along with being committed to bi-directional learning in global medicine.
Tracey Berlin
NeurOptics, Inc
Name and Title(s): Tracey Berlin
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Tracey Berlin MSN-ED, RN, CNRN, CCRN-K has been a Registered Nurse for 37 years, working in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units as a staff nurse, educator and Clinical Specialist. She has also worked as a clinical consultant and educator for several companies specializing in advanced neuromonitoring. Working full time with NeurOptics since 2020, she serves as a Senior Clinical Specialist and Coordinator of Clinical Research. She has held her CCRN for 32 years, her CNRN for 15 years and has been a contributing author and editor for several nursing textbooks. Tracey recently served a three-year term as Director-at-large on the board of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses.
Kimberly Meyer
University of Louisville
Name and Title(s): Kimberly Meyer
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular
Additional biographical information:
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Dr. Kim Meyer, APRN, graduated with her PhD from the University of Louisville in 2016 after previously earning her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from the University of Kentucky in 2001. Dr. Meyer is currently serving a term as President-Elect of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, for which she has previously served leadership terms as a board member. Dr. Meyer received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the University of Louisville for the School of Nursing (SON) in 2020 and was honored by SON students in 2017 with the Favorite Faculty Award.
Dr. Meyer currently works on the ASTROH stroke clinical trial with the University of Louisville and UofL Health. Additionally, Dr. Meyer has written book chapters in Brain Injury Medicine, 3rd edition; Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide;Textbook of Critical Care, 2nd, 6th & 7theditions; Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury; and AANN Core Curriculum for Neuroscience Nursing, 4th & 5th edition.
Book Chapters:
Meyer, K, Amato S., & McNett, M. (2021). Neurosurgical and Rehabilitation Nursing. In Zasler ND, Katz DI, & Zafonte RD, (eds). Brain Injury Medicine, 3rd ed, Principles and Practice. New York; Springer. ISBN-13: 978-0826143044
Meyer K. (2021). Cerebral Perfusion. In B. J. Ackley, G. B. Ladwig, B. A. Swan, & S. J. Tucker (Eds.), Nursing Diagnosis Handbook; an Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier. iSBN-13: 978-0323322249
Meyer KS & Marion DW. (i2017). Chapter 38: Traumatic brain injury. In Vincent JL, Abraham E, Kochanek P, Moore FA, & Fink M (eds), Textbook of Critical Care, 7th ed pp.220-230. Philadelphia, PA. Elsevier.
Meyer K, & Jaffee MS. (2013). Chapter 19: Military Personnel and Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury. In Arciniegas DB, Zasler ND, Vanderploeg RD, & Jaffee MS (eds), Management of adults with traumatic brain injury, pp461-474. Washington DC. APA.
Meyer KS & Marion DW. (2011). Chapter 38: Traumatic brain injury. In Vincent JL, Abraham E, Kochanek P, Moore FA, & Fink M (eds), Textbook of Critical Care, 6th ed pp.220-230. Philadelphia, PA.Elsevier.
Jaffee MS, Kennedy J, Leal F, & Meyer KS. (2011). Chapter 12: PTSD and TBI. In Silver J, McAllister T & Yudofsky SC (eds.), Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd ed, pp 199-210. Washington DC. APA
Meyer KS, Ivins B, Doncevic S, Lew HL, Trudel T, & Jaffee MS. (2011). Chapter 26: TBI in the Context of War. In Silver J, McAllister T & Yudofsky SC (eds.), Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd ed. Pp 415-426. Washington DC. APA.
McIlvoy, L, Meyer, et al. (2010). Craniocerebral trauma. In MK Bader & LR Littlejohns (eds.), AANN Core Curriculum for Neuroscience Nursing 5h ed St Louis, MO. Saunders.
McIlvoy, L, Meyer, K & McQuillan. (2004). Traumatic spine injuries. In MK Bader & LR Littlejohns (eds.), AANN Core Curriculum for Neuroscience Nursing 4th ed (pp. 335-402). St Louis, MO.
Mary Kay Bader
MISSION HOSPITAL
Name and Title(s): Mary Kay Bader RN, MSN, CCNS, CNRN, CCRN, SCRN, FNCS, FAHA, FCCM
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Critical/Intensive care, Neurology
Additional biographical information:
Mary Kay Bader has 45 years experience with an emphasis in neuroscience/ICU. She holds CCRN, CNRN, SCRN & CCNS certifications. She is employed as a Neuro/Critical Care CNS at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo CA, working collaboratively with the team to develop protocols and manage care for neuro/ICU patient populations. She has lectured nationally/ internationally on Traumatic Brain Injury, Hypothermia and Targeted Temperature Management, ICP, Spinal Cord Injury, aneurysmal SAH, novel anticoagulants in the presence of intracranial hemorrhage & stroke. She has published 43 articles/4 books. Mary Kay is a Past President of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. She is a fellow in the American Heart Association (FAHA), Neurocritical Care Society (FNCS), and Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM). Mary Kay served on consnesus panels for the NCS and American Heart Association multimodality monitoring and critical care management of comatose patients post cardiac arrest.
Theresa Green
University of Queensland
Name and Title(s): Prof Theresa Green RN PhD
Profession: Nurse
Job title: Professor of Nursing
Other Affiliations:
University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta CAN Griffith University, Gold Coast QLD, AU
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
Theresa Green is an Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health & Biomedical Sciences at University of Queensland (UQ). She held a conjoint Professor of Rehabilitation Nursing Research position with UQ and the Metro North Hospital & Health Service in Brisbane Australia. She has an extensive background in acute clinical nursing, with expertise in neuroscience nursing and nursing management. Theresa was actively involved in development of the Calgary Stroke Program, Canadian Best Practices in Stroke Care Clinical Practice Guidelines and had an instrumental role in the development of Accreditation Canada’s Stroke Certification program. She has participated in accreditation surveys of stroke centres in Canada, focused on stroke services in acute care environments and rehabilitation settings (stand-alone and integrated service models).
Theresa’s program of research includes examination of transitions of patients and families living with stroke across the healthcare and service continuum with a primary focus on post-acute transitional care (rehabilitation and home) and (self)-management. Outcomes assessed in this program of research include: 1) health outcomes of adults, 2) health outcomes of family members and family caregivers, 3) efficiency and access to care and services (including use and costs of health services), and 5) preferences, satisfaction, and practices of patients, family, and healthcare providers in the delivery and receipt of health services for stroke. Within a neurological program of research, social determinants of health, chronic disease and care management in ethnoculturally diverse populations are examined.
Sebastián Vásquez
Clínica del Country
Name and Title(s): Sebastián Vásquez
Other Affiliations:
None.
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Critical/Intensive care, Neurology
Additional biographical information:
Neurologist from Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia), and Neurointensivist from Fundación Meditech (Colombia) and Cambridge University (UK).
Rachel Malloy
Natus Medical
Name and Title(s): Rachel Malloy
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Neurovascular, Critical/Intensive care, Nursing
Additional biographical information:
A native of Kansas City, MO, Rachel Malloy began her nursing career in 1997. Most of her experience is in neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and diagnostic medicine, specifically imaging. She has taught nurses across the United States and Europe and published in peer-reviewed journals and core curriculums on these topics. She received her BSN and MSN with an education focus from Research College of Nursing in Kansas City. She also completed a post-graduate fellowship in Neurovascular Education and Training in Stroke Management and Acute Reperfusion Therapies. Rachel currently works for Natus as the Clinical Application Manager for Neurocritical Care. Rachel has earned certifications in both neuroscience and stroke. She lives with her husband in sunny Florida near her two beautiful granddaughters.
Lawrence Chyall
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Name and Title(s): Lawrence Chyall
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care, Neurology, Nursing
Maria Coreena Velasco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Name and Title(s): Maria Coreena Velasco
Areas of specialty:
Neurotrauma, Critical/Intensive care
Megan Bailey
Name and Title(s): Megan Bailey
Pat Blissitt
University of Washington School of Nursing
Name and Title(s): Pat Blissitt B.S.N., M.S.N., Ph.D., ARNP-CNS, CCRN, CNRN,
Profession: Nurse
Karol Martínez Palacios
Universidad del Rosario
Name and Title(s): Karol Martínez Palacios
This Global Neuro course has been developed for nurses dedicated to the integral management of Neurotrauma, as well as complex and interdisciplinary patient care.
This online certificate course program will be a combination of lectures, tutorials, case studies and skills videos to increase participants' basic understanding of evidence-based practice in neurotrauma. The self-paced video lectures will be available in a repository for remote access during the 3 months duration of the program. Web-based discussions will be set up in specific time slots to allow students from different time zones to participate in live discussion sessions. Discussions will be available in the repository to be accessed after the real time sessions.
Recommended reading material is provided in advance to enhance the interactive learning experience.
Course program
The program is organized in 11 modules, 66 lectures, 8 skills modules. These will be evaluated with a multiple-choice test with a minimum required score of 70%. At the end of the 11 modules a final exam evaluating the content of the whole program will be performed online.
The final grade will be a sum of the module’s exams (50%) and the final exam (50%). The minimum required score to obtain the certification will be 7.0 / 10 (70%).
By completing this course, participants will be better able to:
- To demonstrate an understanding of neurotrauma epidemiology worldwide and how different types of injuries can affect patients in different age groups.
- To develop an improved knowledge of anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology following injury of the brain and spine.
- Critically analyze the evidence base that supports the nursing care for patient with External Ventricular Drains
- To develop appropriate assessment and management skills for the neurotrauma patients in within different resource availability, utilizing protocols, guidelines, consensus, and evidence-based interventions in delivering patient care and improving outcomes.
- To develop the appropriate nursing skills to apply to the prehospital, emergency care, surgical, critical care, post-acute and rehabilitative care of neurotrauma patients.
- To demonstrate an understanding of care required in complex cases and in neurotrauma care related complications.
Phone: +13217322199, Email: ximena.rodriguez@globalneuro.org
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