Marketing Yourself as a CNL: Passport to Success
Webinar Overview
In today’s job market, you have to take responsibility for navigating your career. If you have earned the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) credential or are considering sitting for the CNL certification exam, you are encouraged to attend this Webinar to learn strategies to market your unique knowledge and skill set.
NOTE: This Webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students.
Webinar Speakers
Mary Mather, MSN, RN, CNL
South Texas VA Medical Center
Ms. Mather is a Master’s prepared Clinical Nurse Leader. Her professional experience has included working in the private sector as well as caring for America’s veterans. She joined the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2003 and has been a Clinical Nurse Leader for 5 years. Her exemplary work as a professional nurse has been recognized by South Texas Veterans Health Care System with the facility level Secretary of Veteran Affairs’ Award for Excellence in Nursing 2006 and 2012. She is certified as a Fellow Mentor with the VA mentoring three to four nurses each year. She provides educational offerings for the hospital education department, local universities, as well as meeting the needs at the unit level. She has published articles on communication strategies and interview techniques to enhance patient care. She produces abstracts related to work place successes that have been accepted by the International Evidenced Based Practice Summer Institute, CNL Summit, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses National Teaching Institute, Comprehensive Emergency Management Program Evaluation and Research, and the National Gerontological Nurses Association (NGNA) Annual Convention. She has been recognized by the National Nursing Honor Society for contributions as a nursing leader, recognized on the CNL Wall of Fame, a CNL ambassador for certification, and serves as President to the local chapter of the NGNA. Through her work she has demonstrated CNL practice excellence that earned her the 2012 CNL National Vanguard Award.
Erica DeBoer, MA, RN, CNL, CCRN
Sanford USD Medical Center and South Dakota State University
Erica started her nursing career in 1997 after graduating with her BSN from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. She completed her MA in 2010 from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD as a part of the first cohort of Clinical Nurse Leaders in the region. The majority of her nursing career has been spent at the bedside in the Critical Care Setting in a variety of roles from Charge Nurse, Clinical Nurse Educator, Clinical Leader, to Clinical Nurse Leader. She has been instrumental in the development of multiple programs in critical care setting as well the implementation of smart pump technology and bedside scanning of medications hospital wide. Erica leads multiple interdisciplinary teams to achieve more reliable processes and outcomes for patients. Over the last 2 years Ms. DeBoer has taken on a hospital wide roll at Sanford USD Medical Center leading other projects and teams. She is the principal investigator in a cancer related fatigue study and assists with educating frontline staff at Sanford with understanding the basics of Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) and application at the bedside. Erica serves as adjunct faculty at 2 of the local colleges focusing on core CNL courses and EBP and research as well as the importance of implementation at the bedside.
Ann Deerhake, MS, RN, CNL, CCRN
St. Rita’s Medical Center and The Ohio State University
Since 1991, Ann has been a critical care nurse at St. Rita’s Medical Center, a Level II Trauma Center in Lima, OH. Her love of caring for critically ill patients in the medical-surgical-neurological ICU began in 1997 and she continued on to become a Critical Care Clinical Resource Nurse for the nightshift nursing staff in 2006. As one of the leaders of the Rapid Response and Code Blue teams, Ann continually found gaps in processes that led to decreased patient safety and suboptimal outcomes. While completing her BSN at Ohio Northern University in 2007, she discovered the Clinical Nurse Leader role and was thrilled at the prospect of furthering her education in preparation to remain at the bedside while improving the quality of care. After receiving her MS in Nursing from The Ohio State University, as well as her Clinical Nurse Leader certification, Ann advocated for the CNL role, obtaining the initial Clinical Nurse Leader position at St. Rita’s Medical Center. While in this role she has focused on education, developing an Open Heart Practicum for care of the immediate out of surgery open heart patient, an annual ICU competency day, and progressive care educational boot camps. Ann has collaborated with many transdisciplinary teams to improve quality, working on such initiatives as reducing pressure ulcer and nosocomial infection, increasing staff and patient satisfaction, and encouraging professional development of frontline nursing staff. In 2012, she became an Epic credentialed trainer and was integral in the system implementation, becoming a critical care clinical documentation resource for St. Rita’s and Catholic Health Partners. Ann also serves as part-time faculty for the graduate nursing program at The Ohio State university, teaching Health Promotion and Transition to CNL Practice.