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Kerry Lynn Davis-Hopkins, BSN, RN, CRRN
| Current Employment: | The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) |
| Position: | Clinical Nurse Educator, Brain Injury & Stroke Unit |
| Description of Responsibilities: | |
| Serve as part of a team of nurse educators to provide staff development to nursing employees, assist with policy-making, and QI statistics hospital-wide. Perform chart audits with external insurance reviewer, procedural nurse for procedures such as Stellate Ganglion blocks and ITB trials. Perform audits with staff/pharmacy on medication errors (potential and actual), member of the Nurse Council committee that reviews products and equipment, patient safety goals and JCAHO standards. | |
| ARN Member Since: | 2002 |
| SETX Chapter ARN Member: | 2002 |
| SETX Chapter ARN Involvement: | -Poster Presentation SETX June EXPO: 2005 |
| -Brain Injury and Stroke presenter at SETX | |
| Rehabilitation Nursing Review Workshop: 2004 & 2005 | -Rehabilitation Nurse of the Year Committee: 2004 |
| Why did you decide to join SETX ARN? | |
| “To increase my knowledge in the area of rehabilitation. I was encouraged to join from fellow co-workers that are actively involved with ARN and wanted a sense of bonding with nurses that know/understand my needs or concerns as a rehabilitation nurse.” | |
| National ARN Involvement: | Poster presentation (PHOENIX Program) at ARN National Conference: 2004 |
| Awards Received: | |
| - Received CRRN in 2003 -Perfect Attendance Award, SETX ARN: 2004 |
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| Community Involvement: | |
| - Bellaire High School Band parent
involvement -Nurse Reviewer for the Brain Injury Association of Texas: 2004 & 2005 |
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| Hobbies, Special Interests: | |
| I am a proud “Wheel of Fortune” watcher. | |
| Previous Experience: | |
| “After graduating from nursing school in 1990, I worked as a Cardiac ICU and PACU nurse. I loved my job, but I always wondered what happened to those patients that left the acute care setting. My family and I moved to Houston in 1995 and I decided this was my opportunity to see what happened to those patients after the acute care setting, so I saw an advertisement in the paper for rehabilitation nurses at TIRR. I applied. Enough said… I LOVE what I do and I am very glad I chose this field." | |
| What does Rehabilitation Nursing mean to you? | |
| Preparing Individuals for
the Challenge of Recovery “Rehabilitation nursing to me means sharing one’s knowledge with another being (patients) and knowing that the patients are well equipped to take on the challenges of recovery because I have adequately taught them the tools they need for survival. That in itself is rewarding… It’s like a mama bird sending their young chick out into the world. The mama bird knows that she has taught that young chick everything she knows and she feels comfortable with that because the young chick has the skills it needs in order to survive in the world when they leave mama’s nest.” |
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