Carly Byrne

Carly Byrne, DNP, APRN, PCNS-BC, CCNS, CPN, CCRN, serves a one-year term as secretary/treasurer of the AACN Certification Corporation board of directors from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. She continues a three-year term as a director on the AACN Certification Corporation board from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026.

A member of AACN’s Greater Portland Chapter, Byrne is a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, and adjunct faculty for Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. Her primary areas of focus are professional governance, professional practice, evidence-based practice (EBP) and implementation science.

Her AACN volunteer activities include membership on the NTI Program Planning Committee (2023, 2022, 2017), serving as chair in 2023 and co-chair in 2022. She has been a Beacon Award reviewer and served on the certification exam committees for the pediatric CNS exam. Byrne has also given several presentations at AACN’s National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.

In addition, she is an EBP mentor with The Ohio State University’s Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, and a member of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Byrne has received awards from the March of Dimes in the categories of Distinguished Nurse of the Year and APRN Nurse of the Year. She also received the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board’s CPN (Certified Pediatric Nurse) Certification Advocate Award.

She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice with a concentration in transformative leadership systems, and a Master of Science in Nursing, both from Rush University, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Alaska Anchorage.

Byrne adds, “I like to test my fear of heights by hiking/climbing tall mountains and going skydiving. I’ve run almost 100 half marathons, and ran my first marathon in 2022. My goal is to run an ultramarathon in 2025.”