Rapid Response Certification Course

Cheryl Herrmann, RN, MS, APRN, CCRN, CCNS-CSC/CMC, has 31 years of nursing experience—15 years as a bedside nurse in SICU, Neuro ICU, and CVICU, and 16 years as a cardiac clinical nurse specialist. As a cardiac CNS, she cares for patients in cardiac prep and recovery, cardiac catheterization, surgery, ICU, telemetry/progressive units, and at discharge. In addition, Ms. Herrmann is a Prehospital RN for the local ambulance service. In 2005, Ms. Herrmann was honored with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Circle of Excellence—Excellent Clinical Nurse Specialist Award and the Twenty-Five Women in Leadership Award in central Illinois. She is the recipient of the 2009 University of Illinois Alumni Award. Member of the ISAPN Board of Directors. AACN Past President & Member of Heart of Illlinois-AACN Board of Directors

Andrea Sikora, PharmD, MSCR, BCCCP, FCCM is a clinical associate professor at the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Pharmacy and a practicing critical care pharmacist at Augusta University Medical Center. Dr. Sikora earned her Doctor of Pharmacy training at UGA before completing two years of post-graduate residency training at The University of North Carolina Medical Center, where she specialized in critical care. She earned her Master of Science in clinical research from Emory University. Dr. Sikora is a federally funded researcher studying how to apply artificial intelligence to optimize outcomes of ICU medications.

Dr. Susan Davis, a DNP, MSN, RN, PMD, has dedicated her career to promoting excellence in life-saving resuscitation practices, drawing from her extensive experience in the American Heart Association, US hospitals, simulation and rescue response programs. Through her work, she and her team have trained over 50,000 healthcare professionals in basic, advanced, and pediatric resuscitation response, improving code blue team performance. Dr. Davis is the creator of CodePRep™, a program that provides rapid and efficient code blue training from Rapid Response Teams (RRT), simulation centers, nurses and healthcare professionals, aimed at enhancing Basic Life Support (BLS) – empowered resuscitation performance. Her goal is to create a national network of high-performance resuscitation communities, businesses, schools, and healthcare organizations that offer continuous code blue team training, encouraging and empowering everyone to respond with utmost confidence and proficiency. Because if you have a heart, you’re already qualified!

John Lunde, DNP, AGACNP/FNP-BC, RN, CCRN, TCRN, FCCM, is an advanced practice nurse with over 25 years’ experience in resuscitation roles, critical care, flight nursing and trauma program management. He holds multiple national certifications in emergency flight, critical care and trauma. Dr. Lunde currently works as a critical care nurse practitioner, is a journal reviewer for a nursing trauma journal and provides trauma education to advance practice providers, nursing, allied health and medical residents. He is a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, member of the Fundamental Critical Care Support Course Committee Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and serves on the Fundamental Critical Care Support Committee, and the Critical Care Pharmacology Committee.

I am clinically active as an intensive care nurse at a 16 bed ICU for Mayo. I work with a wide variety of specialties including neuro surgery, ventilator patients, balloon pumps, CRRT, Flotrak, etc.... I have a legal nurse consulting business (see website for both services offered and testimonials). I also develop and deliver seminars during the week for companies nationwide on medical related topics and work with the MN Board of Nursing working with nurses who have gotten Corrective Action or Suspensions. I work with them as a consultant to meet the criteria of their corrective action and get them back to work. I have two pocket guides currently published in 2013 and 2014, both available on Amazon.com. One is on Assessment Skills and the other on Medical Surgical Nursing. Currently a pocket guide on laboratory findings in in the editing stage. I am in the process of negotiating a contract with Springer Publishing Company as well for a manual to prepare for the Medical Surgical Certification test. I also have numerous recorded programs that are available for purchase through PESI Healthcare, Ed4Nurses and Med Ed Seminars. I am a US Naval veteran leaving service as a Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). Specialties: Medical/Surgical, Intensive Care, psychiatric nursing, certified legal nurse consulting, seminar development and delivery. I am certified in ICU, Progressive Care, Med/Surg, as a legal nurse consultant and as a nurse life care planner.

Kelly Counts, PhD (c), APRN, ACNP-BC, FNP-C, ENP-C, has been practicing in healthcare for the past 30 years and for the past 18 years, worked as an emergency medicine nurse practitioner. Her career emphasis has always been focused on emergency medicine, flight nursing, and critical care. Throughout her accumulated experiences, she has mastered crisis management, time critical decision making and encountered many difficult situations and conversations. Kelly is triple board certified as FNP-C, ACNP-BC & ENP-C. She is currently pursuing a PhD at UMKC with an emphasis on palliative care in the emergency department.

Andrea Pifher, DHSc, RRT-ACCS, RCP (BS – The University of Findlay, Findlay, OH., MHSc. – Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL., DHSc. – A.T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona) has been an associate professor in the Allied Health Department at Columbus State Community College since 2013. Andrea serves as the program coordinator for the respiratory care program. Prior to coming to CSCC, she worked full time in the hospital as a registered respiratory therapist and adult critical care specialist for 8 years in the ICU at hospitals in Columbus, Ohio and Springfield, Ohio.

Douglas Stephens, DNP, CRNP, ACNP-BC, is an associate professor in the graduate program at Jacksonville State University. He is the lead faculty for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track and is nationally certified as an adult acute care nurse practitioner, with clinical practice experience in critical care medicine. He continues to pursue opportunities to improve patient outcomes for imminent declining patients, using ACLS evidence in all patient populations.

Patrick Heagey, MPAS, PA-C, is an assistant professor at West Chester University in the Physician Assistant Program. His specialty is Trauma Surgery/Surgical Critical Care.

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and physicians. Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and provide participants with numerous case studies to facilitate critical thinking. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of infectious disease and multi-system organ failure patients. His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program.

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Ebonye Green, MNSc, ACNPC-AG, CNRN, SCRN, APRN, FNCS, has been an inpatient advanced practice registered nurse for the College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences since 2013. She previously worked as a staff nurse and as a travel nurse, working in some of the country’s top neurosurgical intensive units and Gamma Knife, including Washington Hospital Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ebonye is passionate about contributing to her specialty and professional associations and organizations. She is a member of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and serves as a Director at Large on their Board of Directors, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Director at Large for Arkansas Nurse Practitioner Association, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons, Neurocritical Care Society, is Co-Chair of the Women in Neurocritical Care Advanced Practice Leadership Committee, and is also a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society. Ebonye is passionate about educating staff to grow their knowledge to better care for our patients and families.

Tracey Long has been a practicing RN and Nurse Educator for 28 years, teaching courses in Medical Spanish, Diabetes Education, Cultural Competence, Critical Care and Simulation, and is full time Nursing faculty. She has lived in Spain and served as a health welfare missionary in Colombia, South America, for 18 months. She serves as faculty for International Service Learning with nursing students in Belize and Peru providing medical clinics, and organized diabetes education programs for Hispanic/Latinos in Southern Nevada. With a passion for active learning, and as an international speaker and award-winning educator, Tracey helps students not just memorize, but truly learn the content material needed to successfully master skills and learning.

Sean G. Smith, MSc, FP-C, CEN, CFRN, CPEN, CCRN-CMC (Adult), CCRN-K (Neonatal), CCRN-K (Pediatric), is a flight nurse-paramedic who has practiced and taught Trauma Care, Tactical Medicine, Emergency/Critical Care, and Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, both in the military and the civilian world. He holds degrees in nursing and molecular biology, and is a graduate of Duke University's Legal Nurse Consulting program. He holds multiple advanced specialty certifications as well as extensive instructor qualifications in critical care and emergency medicine.

Rosale Lobo, PhD, RN, MSN, LNC, has been a registered nurse for 37 years in the capacity of a nurse, legal nurse consultant, administrator, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Working with people in hospitals, clinics, and home care settings allowed her to study patients and healthcare professional’s experiences from various perspectives. Dr. Lobo earned her PhD (2017), with research demonstrating the importance of educating nurses on documentation and patient safety. Her company, Lobo Consulting Group, LLC partners with medical malpractice attorneys nationwide to support their pursuit of justice for their clients. Through her versatile background, she has acquired expertise in the nuances and complexities of healthcare litigation and documentation. As a speaker, Dr. Lobo continues to travel the country speaking with nurses and healthcare systems about the pathways to safer practice patterns.

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Christa A. Schorr, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, is a clinical nurse scientist at Cooper University Health Care and Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Dr. Schorr has more than 25 years of clinical, quality improvement, and research experience in critical care. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, invited book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Schorr was the group-head for the 2021 surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Long-Term Outcomes and Goals of Care Section. In 2021, she was the recipient of the prestigious Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Award in conjunction with the 50th Annual Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress – Recognition for research and publications.