CPAN and CAPA Certification review Course, Saturday February 1, 2025

Maureen has spent her career in perianesthesia environments and is considered a perianesthesia nurse expert. She began her perianesthesia nursing career as a staff nurse in a high acuity PACU in an academic medical center. Since that period, she has held a variety of clinical leadership roles including PACU Clinical Educator, Clinical Nurse Specialist of Procedural Sedation, Critical Care Clinical Educator and now her current role as Quality Nurse, Department of Anesthesia. Maureen’s possesses a baccalaureate degree and a Master’s Degree from Boston College. She is board certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health as well as dual certification as a CAPA and CPAN. Maureen is a frequent lecturer locally, nationally and internationally covering a variety of clinical topics. She echoes the vision statement from the American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification, Inc.: “Recognizing and respecting the unequaled excellence in the mark of the CPAN and CAPA credential, perianesthesia nurses will seek it, managers will require it, employers will support it and the public will demand it.”