Jennifer Adamski

Jennifer Adamski, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, serves a one-year term as president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. She was president-elect from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. She also served a three-year term as a director on the AACN Certification Corporation board of directors from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, and a three-year term as a director on the AACN board from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2022. Adamski completed a concurrent one-year term on the AACN Certification Corporation board from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, in addition to a previous term from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

Adamski is a clinical associate professor and director of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Program at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, and critical care flight nurse practitioner. Adamski is also an independent consultant for APRN model development and serves as an APRN expert witness for trauma and critical care.

Her AACN volunteer work includes serving as the content expert for AACN’s first trauma webinar series. An AACN ambassador, she is a member of the AACN Acute and Critical Care Pharmacology Course Review Panel, NTI Poster Abstract Review Panel and the Awards Review Panel. She also served on the Advanced Practice Institute (API) Program Planning Committee (2019) and the AACN Nominating Committee (2017-2018).

Additional affiliations include the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Nominations Council, the AANP Diversity & Inclusion Committee, the Society of Critical Care Medicine Graduate & Medical Education Committee and the Society of Trauma Nurses Nominations Committee, among many others. In addition, she is an APRN representative on the Georgia Board of Nursing.

Her areas of research include trauma prevention and system development, rapid response teams and critical care/trauma advances in hemorrhagic shock. She has lectured on the critical care NP model, trauma resuscitation and management, and received numerous awards, including the March of Dimes Critical Care Nurse of the Year, the Excellence in Leadership Award for Emory School of Nursing Faculty and Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice from her BSN alma mater in 2024. In addition, she was inducted as a Fellow in 2021 to the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

Adamski earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice from University of South Alabama, a Master of Science in Nursing from University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Carlow University, Pittsburgh.