GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING & HEALTH STUDIES

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING & HEALTH STUDIES Robin Donohoe Dennison, DNP, APRN, CCNS, CEN, CNE last updated February 4, 2013 PERSONAL INFORMATION LICENSURES Department of Nursing School of Nursing and Health Studies Georgetown University St. Mary's Hall 3700 Reservoir Rd. Washington DC 20057 Phone: 859-351-3448 State: Washington DC License No: APRN 1025806 Initial Date: 4/20/2012 Renewal/Expiration Date: 6/30/2014 State: Kentucky License No: APRN 3007425 Initial Date: 4/24/2012 Renewal/Expiration Date: 10/31/2013 State: Kentucky License No: RN 1034285 Initial Date: 10/23/1975 Renewal/Expiration Date: 10/31/2013 CERTIFICATION State: Ohio License No: RN 224879 Initial Date: 2/15/90 Renewal/Expiration Date: 8/31/2013 Board Certification: CCNS (Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist) Date of Certification: 12/1/2000 Date of Re-certification: 11/30/2017 Board Certification: CEN (Certified Emergency Nurse) Date of Certification: 7/17/2010 Date of Re-certification: 7/17/2014 Board Certification: CNE (Certified Nurse Educator) Date of Certification: 9/30/2008 Date of Re-certification: 9/30/2013

EDUCATION Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) Charleston, WV September 1973-May 1975 Associate of Arts in Nursing Marshall University Huntington, WV January 1976-May 1978 Bachelor of Science in Nursing (summa cum laude) University of Delaware Newark, DE September 1978-May 1980 Master of Science in Nursing University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky August 2001-August 2005 Doctorate of Nursing Practice PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky January 2004-May 2006 Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Learning Associate Professor Georgetown University Washington, DC August 1, 2011-present Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing September 1, 2009-April 30, 2011 Director of DNP Program September 1, 2006-April 30, 2011 Coordinator of Clinical Nurse Specialist/Nurse Educator Program September 1, 2006-April 30, 2011 Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing September 1, 2005-August 31, 2009 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH President and Owner Robin Dennison Presents, Inc. Winchester, Ky September 1983-present 2

Clinical Nurse Specialist Critical Care Units Veterans Administration Medical Center Lexington, Ky December 1996-October 2001 PRN Staff Nurse Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Central Baptist Hospital Lexington, Ky October 1993-October 1995 Clinical Nurse Specialist Critical Care Units Central Baptist Hospital Lexington, Ky July 1990-June 1992 PRN Staff Nurse Medical Intensive Care Unit Charleston Area Medical Center Charleston, WV November 1987-March 1990 PRN Staff Nurse Emergency Department Cabell Huntington Hospital Huntington, WV July 1986-April 1989 Clinical Nurse Specialist Dennison Medical Office Huntington, WV October 1984-September 1986 Clinical Nurse Specialist Medical-Surgical and Critical Care Units Cabell Huntington Hospital Huntington, WV August 1980-Sepember 1984 Instructor in Nursing Ashland Community College Ashland, Ky August 1979-June 1980 Staff Nurse Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Units Saint Mary s Hospital Huntington, WV December 1975-June 1978 Staff Nurse Intensive Care Unit 3

HONORS and AWARDS Charleston Area Medical Center Charleston, WV June 1975-December 1975 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Pass CCRN!, Third Edition 2007 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Pass CCRN!, Second Edition 2001 Volunteer of the Year American Heart Association-West Virginia Affiliate 1987 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP Nurse of the Year West Virginia Nurses Association 1985 Society of Clinical Nurse Specialist Education Vice-President 2009-present Member 2009-present Sigma Theta Tau International International Program Committee 2012-2014 Beta Iota Chapter Vice-President 2009-2010 Beta Iota Chapter Program Committee 2005-2012 Member 1985-present American Nurses Association Vice-President of West Virginia Nurses Association 1985-1987 Member, Board of Director of West Virginia Nurses Association 1983-1987 Member of ANA and Affiliates 1978-present American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Member 1975-present National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists Member of Education Committee 2008-2009 Member of Annual Meeting Planning Committee 2008-2009 Member 2005-2010 American Heart Association-West Virginia Affiliate Chairman, State Nursing Committee 1981-1983 4

PUBLIC SERVICE Member of State Board of Directors 1981-1987, 1989-1991 Editorial Board Pepid 2012-present Journal of Nursing Education 2012-present Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2009-present Critical Care Nurse 1996-present. American Journal of Nursing 1995-present. Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing 2007-2012. INVITED LECTURES (only most recent international and national presentations listed) American Nurse Today 2007-2010 Current Status of DNP Programs with CNS Tracks at Second Annual National Conference, sponsored by the Society for Clinical Nurse Specialist Education, Louisville, KY, October 20, 2012. Development of Grading Rubrics at Second Annual National Conference, sponsored by the Society for Clinical Nurse Specialist Education, Louisville, KY, October 20, 2012. Incorporating Active Learning Strategies into Critical Care Education at National Teaching Institute, sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Orlando, FL, May 21, 2012. Implementing Chickering and Gamson s Seven Principles of Good Practice in an Online Environment webinar, sponsored by the Society for Clinical Nurse Specialist Education, January 24, 2012. Practical Points for Distance Learning at First Annual National 5

Conference, sponsored by the Society for Clinical Nurse Specialist Education, Louisville, KY, May 20-22, 2011. Thinking Critically to Avert a Crisis at Rapid Response Team Symposium, sponsored by University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, May 12, 2010. Second Generation DNP Programs at Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Congress, sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 13-17, 2009. Preparing for and Performing on the CCRN Examination at National Teaching Institute, sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, New Orleans, LA, May 18, 2009. Using Best Evidence for Best Practice and Finding the Evidence at Evidence-Based Practice, sponsored by the South Central Alaska Chapter of American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Denali, AK, September 6, 2008. A New (Old?) Model for CNS Education: The CNS/Nurse Educator at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists National Conference, sponsored by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Atlanta, GA, March 5-8, 2008. Evidence-Based Approaches to the Prevention of Patient Harm Caused by Medication Errors at Medication Errors: What Can We Do About Them?, sponsored by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2007. Participant on Panel on DNP Education at the 2006 CNS Summit, sponsored by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Indianapolis, IN, July 13-14, 2006. Evidence-Based Teaching of Evidence-Based Practice at the 5 th Annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, sponsored by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Academic Center for Evidence- Based Practice, San Antonio, TX, June 29-July 1, 2006. Ensuring Safe Intravenous Infusion of High-Alert Medications at National Teaching Institute, sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Anaheim, CA, May 22-25, 2006. Providing Evidence of Competence: Use of a Professional Portfolio at National Teaching Institute, sponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Anaheim, CA, May 22-25, 2006. 6

UNIVERSITY SERVICE TEACHING ACTIVITIES Evidence-Based Practice: What s Is It All About? (Keynote), Safe Intravenous Infusion of High-Alert Medications, Determinants of Cardiac Output: Therapeutic Manipulations, Postoperative Complications: Pulmonary, Postoperative Complications: Shock, 16 th Annual Facets in Critical Care Nursing, sponsored by Promedica Health System, Toledo, OH, October 5, 2005. Medication Safety: Development of an Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Model and a Medication Safety Education Program Based on the Model at the 4 th Annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, San Antonio, TX, July 7-9, 2005. Critical Care Certification Review and New Concepts, during the 23 rd Annual Trends in Cardiovascular Nursing, sponsored by Washoe Medical Center, Reno, NV, April 9-10, 2005. Providing Evidence of Competence: Development and Use of a Professional Portfolio at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Orlando, FL, March 10, 2005. Hemodynamic Monitoring: Physiologic Parameters & Therapeutic Manipulations (Keynote), Hypertensive Crisis, Multiple Lead ECG: Chamber Hypertrophy, and Drugs that affect Clotting at The 13 th Annual Critical Concepts, sponsored by Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2004. Nursing Member Council for Curriculum, Instruction, and Outcomes Date(s) of Service: June 2012 -present Graduate Courses Name and Course Number: Advanced Concepts in Physiology and Pathophysiology (NURO546) Role: Course Faculty Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 6 Year Taught: 2011 (Aug) Number of Students: 36 Name and Course Number: Advanced Concepts in Physiology and Pathophysiology (NURO546) Role: Course Faculty Number of Direct Contact Hours*: 4 Year Taught: 2011 (Nov) Number of Students: 25 7

Name and Course Number: Research Evidence and Best Practices in Health Care (NURO540) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 4 Year Taught: 2012 (Jan) Number of Students: 20 Name and Course Number: Research Evidence and Best Practices in Health Care (NURO540) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 4 Year Taught: 2012 (April) Number of Students: 19 Name and Course Number: Research Evidence and Best Practices in Health Care (NURO540) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 2 Year Taught: 2012 (June) Number of Students: 9 Name and Course Number: Instructional Design/Methods/Evaluation (NURS689) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 2 Year Taught: 2012 Spring Semester Number of Students: 7 Name and Course Number: Instructional Design, Student Assessment, and Classroom Management (NURO628) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 2 Year Taught: 2013 (Jan) Number of Students: 4 Name and Course Number: Best Practices in Teaching and Learning (NURO692) Number of Direct* Contact Hours: 4 Year Taught: 2013 (Jan) Number of Students: 15 Service as Course Architect 2012 NURO692: Best Practices in Teaching and Learning NURO628: Instructional Design, Student Assessment, and 8

SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH Classroom Management RESEARCH GRANTS Principle-Investigator: Optimizing the Preceptorship Process. University of Cincinnati College of Nursing Dean s Teaching Award; Funded $10,000, January 2010 to December 2010. Original Papers in Refereed Journals Dennison, R. D., Payne, C., and Farrell, K. (2012). The Doctorate in Nursing Practice. Moving advanced practice nursing even closer to excellence. Nursing Clinics of North America, 47 (2). Dennison, R. D. (2007). A medication safety education program to reduce the risk of harm caused by medication errors. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 38 (4), 176-184. Dennison, R. D., (2007). What goes into your professional portfolio and what you ll get out of it, American Nurse Today, 2 (1), 42-43. Dennison, R. D., (2006). High-alert drugs: Strategies for safe I.V. infusions, American Nurse Today, 1 (2), 28-34, Dennison, R. D. (2005). Creating an organizational culture for medication safety. Nursing Clinics of North America, 40(1), 1-23. Reviews or Editorials in Refereed Journals Dennison, R. D. (2012). The Future of Advanced Practice Nursing. In S. Prevost (Ed.), Nursing Clinics of North America. Philadelphia: Elsevier. Dennison, R. D. (2006). The National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists and the doctorate of nursing practice. Clin Nurse Spec, 20(5), 222-223; discussion 223. Books or Chapters in books, and publications in other journals Dennison, R. D. & Catalano, L. (in progress). Pass PCCN! Philadelphia: Elsevier Dennison, R. D. (2013). Pass CCRN! (4 ed). Philadelphia: Elsevier Dennison, R. D, Johnson, J., & Blair, M. (2011). Pass CEN! Philadelphia: Elsevier. 9

Talbert, T. and Dennison, R. D. (2011). The Role of the Clinical Executive. In Dreher,H. and Glasgow, M. E. (Eds.), Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Practice Nursing. New York: Springer Publishing Company. Dennison, R. D. (2009). Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. In M. L. Sole, D. Klein & M. Mosely (Eds.), Introduction to Critical Care Nursing (5 ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier. Dennison, R. D. (2007). Pass CCRN! (3 ed.). St. Louis: Mosby. Dennison, R. D. (2005). Portfolios: Current Uses. In R. Monsen (Ed.), Genetics Nursing Portfolios: A New Model for Credentialing. Washington DC: American Nurses Association and International Society of Nurses in Genetics. Dennison, R. D. (2000). Pass CCRN! (2 ed.). St. Louis: Mosby. Dennison, R. D. (1997). Respiratory Nursing. In Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice (3rd ed.). Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corporation. Dennison, R. D. (1997). Cardiac glycoside agents and bipyridines. In Clinical Pharmacology and Nursing (3rd ed.). Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corporation. Dennison, R. D. (1996). Pass CCRN! St. Louis: Mosby. Abstracts Dennison, R. D. (2009, July 15, 2009). Second-generation DNP programs. Paper presented at the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Research Congress, Vancouver, Canada. 10