Meet the Board of Directors
Charlotte Guglielmi, RN, BSN, MA, CNOR
President
Charlotte Guglielmi is the perioperative nurse specialist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where she has been a perioperative nurse for 34 years. She received her diploma in nursing from Quincy City Hospital School of Nursing, Quincy, Massachusetts, her BSN from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts and a MA in Ministry from St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts. Guglielmi has been a member of AORN since 1985. She has been active in Massachusetts Chapter 1 for many years, having served in numerous offices including President. On the national level, she is currently AORN President, having also served as President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary and a member of the AORN Board of Directors. Guglielmi has published several articles and book chapters and has given multiple presentations on the local, regional, and national levels. She is the AORN representative to the American College of Surgeons Committee on High Performance Teams and the Council for Surgical and Perioperative Safety. She was the 2001 recipient of the AORN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Practice.
Anne Marie Herlehy, DNP, RN, CNOR
President-Elect
Anne Marie Herlehy completed her undergraduate nursing studies at Rush University in 1993. She obtained a masters of science in Nursing Administration from DePaul University in 1997. She completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Rush University.
Herlehy's involvement in AORN began early in her nursing career as she served in her local chapter as Board Member, president-elect, vice president and president. At the national level, Herlehy has been the chair of the National Research Committee, Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist, Specialty Assembly and Illinois Sate Council besides serving as a resource person in multiple capacities.
Herlehy's career has been in perioperative administration and education. She is currently an Administrative Director for Perioperative and Cardiovascular Services at Alexian Brothers Medical Center and a faculty member at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago.
Rosemarie Schroeder, RN, BSN, CNOR
Vice President
Currently Director of Surgical Services at St. Joseph's Hospital with Ministry Health Care in Marshfield, Wisconsin. She manages 19 OR's, PACU/PreOp and Central Services at this Level II Trauma Center in North Central Wisconsin. Rosemarie Schroeder was the Administrative Director at Cox Health in Springfield, Missouri.
Prior to joining Cox Health, Schroeder was OR Manager at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a staff nurse and RNFA at University Hospital and a Nurse Manager at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before joining the CMC system, she held positions at Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill, South Carolina, Norman Municipal Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma, and St. Mary's Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin. She graduated in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, with a BS in Nursing. She completed a course in First Assisting at Perioperative Plus in Phoenix, Arizona in 1998 and a Clinical Leadership course at UNC in 2004.
Schroeder has been a member of AORN since 1980 and has spoken at conferences locally, regionally and nationally on many perioperative topics, including Total Joints, Quality Improvement and Legislative Grassroots Involvement. She co-authored an article on legislative efforts in the AORN Journal. She was named to the NC Great 100 Nurses in 1998. She has held various offices, including Chair on the AORN Chapter level and the NC State Council. She was a member of the national AORN Legislative Committee and a member and Chair of the Education Committee.
Jane A. Kusler-Jensen, RN, BSN, MBA, CNOR
Secretary
Jane Kusler-Jensen is the Executive Director for Orthopedic Hospital of Wisconsin, part of Columbia St. Mary's Healthcare System, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her prior positions have included: Director of Perioperative Services for Columbia St. Mary's, Director of Surgical Services for Aurora Bay Care, Green Bay, Administrator of Physicians Plus Surgery Center, Madison, Nurse Manager at Surgi-center of Greater Milwaukee, Head Nurse at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Patient Care Coordinator for Plastic and Neurosurgery at St. Joseph's Hospital, and the OR Head Nurse at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ms. Kusler-Jensen earned her diploma in nursing from Deaconess School of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her BSN from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a Bachelor of Science in Management from Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She received an AORN writer's award in 1997 for her article, "A Patient Classification System Developed in a Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center." She has presented at the 1997, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Multi-Specialty Conferences, and 2002, 2005, 2007 and the 2010 AORN Congress.
Anne Fairchild, RN, BSN, MS, CNOR
Treasurer
Anne Fairchild is an independent perioperative consultant and CEO of Vanguard Enterprises, LLC, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She earned her BSN from Oklahoma Baptist University and her Masters in health care administration from Oklahoma State University. Fairchild has been a perioperative nurse for 40 years and a member of AORN for 20 years. She is a member of AORN of Northeastern Oklahoma, e-chapter, the Oklahoma State Council of Perioperative Nurses, the Leadership Specialty Assembly, the Ambulatory Specialty Assembly, and the Business, Industry & Consulting Specialty Assembly. Highlights of Fairchild's service to AORN include that she currently is Treasurer, AORN Board of Directors, and has previously been a member of the Congress Education Planning Committee, a member of the national Executive Leadership Task Force, a member of the Perioperative Nursing Data Set Task Force, member and chair of the AORN Management Connections Advisory Panel, an alternate representative to the Joint Commission's Ambulatory Professional and Technical Advisory Council, a member and chair-elect of the Leadership Specialty Assembly Governing Council, council chair and program chair of the Oklahoma State Council of Perioperative Nurses, and has held every office at the local chapter level.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rhonda Anders, RN, BSN, MSM, CNOR
Rhonda Anders is the Director for Medical and Surgical Nursing at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Working with a large contingent of Registered Nurses primarily focusing on post-surgical care, Rhonda's principal focus is assuring safe passage for patients, while promoting a healthy work environment for employees and physicians.
Rhonda chairs the Perioperative Patient Safety Committee which endeavors to assure adherence to standards across the St. Francis system, while striving for evidence-based practice throughout Perioperative Services. Rhonda has served as President of her local chapter, AORN of Greater Indianapolis, past chair of the National Committee on Education, past chair of the Nurse Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Specialty Assembly, past member of the Nominating Committee and Membership Committee, and current member of the AORN Board of Directors.
Renae N. Battie, RN, MN, CNOR
Renae N. Battie, RN, MSN, CNOR, is currently the Regional Director for Perioperative Services for Franciscan Health System, responsible for coordinating the perioperative/GI/Sterile Processing departments at their five hospitals in the greater Tacoma Washington area. Her previous roles were in academic and private nonprofit multicampus systems, including ambulatory. She has experience in OR design/construction, surigcal information system implementations, specialty team development and sterile processing redesign. She is a frequent presenter at state and national conferences on many topics, more recently Just Culture and Evidence based Management.
Renae has been involved with Recommended Practices for the last few years as both an active member and chair. She helped with the transition from paper publishing to electronic publishing for these documents and the increased use of evidence. She has helped support the QuizBowl from a new event to a successful recurring event that helps increase awareness of evidence-based practices in perioperative nursing. In addition to her involvement with the Recommended Practices Committee, she has continued to be involved with the development of PNDS and the standardized perioperative record, including codeveloping the PNDS Dashboard, and finds that this work intersects very nicely with moving forward with validating the importance of the perioperative nurse in excellent perioperative patient care. She is a member of the Seattle chapter and Washington State Council.
Peter Graves, RN, BSN, CNOR
Peter Graves serves as the senior clinical educator supporting energy-based devices for Covidien. He lives in Dallas, Texas. Responsibilities include producing and delivering clinical education to health care professionals and serving as a subject matter specialist. Peter graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona with a BS in Nursing in 1989. He is a member of the Dallas, Texas chapter of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International. Peter has published numerous papers and has spoken extensively both nationally and internationally.
Denise Jackson, RN, MSN, CRNFA
Denise Jackson is a clinical nurse specialist and CRNFA in practice at Shannon Medical Center/Shannon Clinic in San Angelo, Texas. She has been an RNFA in general, thoracic, peripheral vascular, neuro, ENT, and gynecological surgery since 1992. She is the Educational Coordinator for the Nurse Tech program at Shannon Medical Center. She is the State Legislative Coordinator for Texas and also the co-chair of the TCORN Legislative Committee. Denise has been involved in state nursing legislative initiatives since 2000 and serves as a resource to the Texas Nurses Association regarding perioperative issues.
Darin Prescott, MSN, MBA, RN, CNOR, CASC
Prescott has been a perioperative nurse since 1994. He is presently employed at St. Cloud Hospital in the role of Perioperative Educator. His past experiences have included roles as a staff nurse, nurse manager, unit coordinator and director. Currently, he is responsible for continuing education, orientation, and facilitating work teams within the areas of perioperative care; including the operating room, anesthesia and central processing departments.
He received his associate of applied science degree in nursing from St. Mary's Campus of the College of St. Catherine in 1993; his BSN from the University of Phoenix in 2006 and his MSN/MBA/HCA degree in 2010 from the University of Phoenix. Prescott also serves on the advisory committees of St. Cloud Technical College, Rasmussen College and High Tech Institute's Surgical Technology Programs. He teaches perioperative nursing in academic and clinical arenas including the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Perioperative Nursing Course 101. In 2006, Prescott received the AORN Next Generation Achievement Award in recognition for professionalism and dedication to perioperative nursing. In 2007, he was invited to join Sigma Theta Tau International in recognition of his leadership in nursing.
Prescott's leadership service as a member of professional nursing organizations includes:
" AORN Board of Directors (elected 2009-2011)
" Minnesota Board of Nursing Board Member (appointed 2005-2009)
" Minnesota Board of Nursing Secretary (elected 2006-2008)
" AORN Nominating Committee (elected 2005-2007)
" AORN Rural/Small Hospital Specialty Assembly Governing Council (appointed 2001-2004)
" AORN Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly Coordinating Council (appointed 2006-2009)
" AORN Next Generation Task Force (appointed 2004-2005)
" Minnesota Nurses Association Multicultural Task Force (appointed 2004-2007)
" Competency & Credentialing Institute Item Writer/Reviewer for CNOR exam (2002-2006)
Victoria Steelman, PhD, RN, CNOR, FAAN
Dr. Steelman has been a perioperative nurse for over 25 years. As a perioperative advanced practice nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, she focused on implementing evidence-based practice changes for 20 years. She developed the Perioperative QuizBowl for AORN Congress, which has become an annual event. In July, 2009, she joined the Department of Veterans' Affairs as a Quality Scholar focusing on perioperative safety and quality. She is Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa, teaching graduate students quality and safety. She has extensively published and presented about issues related safe patient care in the operating room and authored many of the AORN Recommended Practices, including Prevention of Unplanned Hypothermia. She is well recognized for these activities and received two Outstanding Achievement awards from the Association of perioOperative Registered Nurses for this work. In 2008, she received the AORN Award for Excellence in recognition of her contributions to perioperative nursing. In 2007, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in recognition of the national and global impact of her work.
David Wyatt, RN, MPH, CNOR
David is responsible for operational management and clinical leadership for perioperative services and transplant service including the OR, PACU, Preoperative assessment and holding, Day Surgery, CS, OR Materials Management, and GI/Endoscopy. He directly supervises eight managers with responsibility for approximately 230 FTEs. In addition to the clinical leadership Mr. Wyatt is involved in strategic development and physician relations for the surgery service line.
Mr. Wyatt has been involved in information technology implementations in the Perioperative setting including scheduling, intraoperative documentation, as well as selection processes for hospital-wide systems. He has been worked on several projects related to performance improvement, patient outcome management and patient safety-designing methods of data collection based from computerized documentation. Currently, Mr. Wyatt is a PhD student with research interests in; health promotion, best practices in healthcare and organizational behavior.