Candidate for Director for Clinical Practice

 

Stephanie Kassulke, BSN, RN, CPAN 


 

Professional Experience:

 

Stephanie is a Staff Nurse-Expert in the PACU at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. Stephanie has thirty-two years experience in nursing with twenty years in the PACU.  She has been active in ASPAN committees that include Membership/Marketing, Standards & Guidelines, Bylaws, Clinical Practice, Nominating and Publications.  She is presently the Coordinator of the Publications Specialty Practice Group.  Stephanie has been active in her home component performing various duties such as president-elect, president, and AWAKENING editor.  Stephanie has contributed to three books, Charting By Exception 2nd Edition, ASPAN Redi-Ref Book, Plumer's Principles & Practice Of Intravenous Therapy 8th Ed., and one JoPAN article, “Becoming a Magnet Hospital: The Role of the Perianesthesia Nurse”.  Stephanie presently holds the position of the Aurora System Nursing Alliance Metro/Kettle Moraine Region President.

 

Membership and Organization Affiliations:

 

ASPAN, WISPAN

 

Upon review of ASPAN’s Strategic Plan and our B.A.G., describe your vision as a national leader to keep the organization current and relevant in the existing healthcare environment to meet the needs if the membership.  How will you assure ASPAN is strategically positioned to accomplish our goals and objectives?

 

Perianesthesia nursing is expanding into several new venues such as women’s health and radiology.  Areas that administer anesthesia need to be aware of our standards of care resulting in the expansion of our scope of influence.  Many non-members’ first contacts with ASPAN are through the Clinical Practice Committee.  We need to answer our questions with conviction using our standards and evidence to support the answers we provide.  This provides a unique opportunity to influence the practice of these individuals and to further our goal as being the voice of perianesthesia nursing.  Collaborating with other committees can assist us in preparing evidenced based answers and/or tools for the membership.  I would bring to ASPAN leadership abilities I have acquired over the years.  Developing processes that would identify frequent themes, provide a method for addressing those themes in collaboration with other committees so that ASPAN can creatively continue on our journey toward excellence and beyond.