2014 Founders Award Winner

Kim raises the quality of pediatric surgical nursing in many ways. Kim is the wound/ostomy nurse for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, (JHCC). As such she offers her clinical expertise to all pediatric divisions. She is the clinical expert in the hospital and nationally and abroad. Kim did research on bowel preparation prior to pediatric abdominal surgery and presented her work at the American Pediatric Surgical Association held in Orlando in 2011.

Kim is an educator, the known resource, and all around go to person at JHCC for any wound or ostomy issue. Kim shares her expertise as a faculty member at Wicks Educational Associates in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania. Kim has written the chapter on Caring for the Child with Technology Needs in the Home as well as the chapter on Wound Management in Neonates, Children and Adolescents in the third edition of our own textbook Nursing Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient.

Kim is the Lead Nurse Practitioner at JHCC. As such she is responsible for overseeing several of our inpatient nurse practitioners. Kim has been a board member for APSNA serving 2 consecutive terms as the publication chair. Kim has championed historical changes for our organization. She has spent inordinate amount of hours devoted to transitioning our online newsletter Sutureline to a peer-reviewed online journal, The Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing. Kim has worked tirelessly interviewing and finally negotiating a contract with Lippincott to bring our journal to a national spotlight, not just available to members but available to anyone that would conduct a professional literature search. This is truly an amazing step forward for our organization!!!