About Kathryn

Kathryn Von Rueden is Critical Care Consultant. Most recently she was a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in the Trauma/Critical Care/ED advanced practice DNP program and a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center. Her professional career includes leadership roles in the biotechnical industry and hospitals. Her clinical research has focused on burnout and compassion fatigue in trauma nurses and delirium in trauma patients. Ms Von Rueden has been invited to lecture internationally and nationally on hemodynamic monitoring, trauma, sepsis, performance improvement, and other critical care topics. She has been a frequent speaker at NTI. She is active at the local and national level of several professional organizations, has multiple publications and has been on a number of trauma and critical care journal editorial boards. She has been the recipient of the AACN Circle of Excellence Award, the Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship from the Society of Trauma Nurses, and the University of Maryland School of Nursing Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 1992.