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Expanding a primary care nurse practitioner fellowship to support rural and underserved pediatric patients in the US
qualifications: DNP
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Co-Director of Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice
Dr. Cathy Haut is employed at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware as the Director of Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice. She has been a nurse for more than 35 years and is certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner with experience working in both primary and acute/critical care. She obtained both her MS and DNP from the University of Maryland School of Nursing and previously was program director for the University of MD primary and acute care PNP graduate programs. Cathy has authored over 60 publications on many clinical and professional topics and is co-editor of two pediatric nursing textbooks, the Lippincott Review Book for Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioners and Cases in Pediatric Acute Care: Strengthening Clinical Decision Making. She has experience as a dissertation and DNP team member and chair and has participated in many research and quality improvement projects. Her areas of interest include pediatric palliative care, pediatric critical care and aspects of mentorship in leadership. She has spoken frequently at national conferences, including the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) annual conference and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses National Teaching Institute. She is a past president of NAPNAP and currently serves as the president of the NAPNAP foundation board. She has interest in many different clinical areas of pediatric nursing, and enjoys challenging nurses to change their practice through research and evidence-based practice projects.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Co-Director of Nursing Research, Nurse Scientist
Sarah E. Wawrzynski, PhD, RN, CCRN, is an Assistant Nurse Scientist in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Co-Director of Nursing Research at Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware. She completed her doctoral training at the University of Utah, College of Nursing. During her graduate training as a T32 and F31 predoctoral fellow, her research focused broadly on the patient and family adjustment to pediatric life-limiting illness. Dr. Wawrzynski recently completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science at Nemours, and her current research is focused on the socioecological factors that influence family members' adjustment and management of congenital heart disease. Her interest in this area is informed by her experience caring for medically fragile children and their families in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit for many years. Her ultimate goal is to identify equitable and culturally sensitive ways to support families managing pediatric illness over its varied trajectories.
qualifications: DNP
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Vice President for Ambulatory and Advanced Practice Nursing
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