Barbara is a Clinical Nurse Educator with the University of Pennsylvania Health System at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. After a long and successful nursing career, Barbara shifted her focus to education, ensuring that today’s nurses would have all the help they needed to succeed!
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>> My name is Barbara Mackey and I am a registered nurse and currently work at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. I work at one of the hospitals, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and I'm one of the clinical nurse educators. We basically facilitate educational programs, not just for Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, but also for all of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which is a corporate educational program. So I help with the new to practice nurse residency program, setup advance cardiac life support programs, specific end services. My areas of expertise within this particular position are for the critical care units. So it's really kind of helping the nurses, helping the clinical nurse specialist, helping leadership do whatever needs to be done for the nurses to be able to do the best patient care. My typical days are, can be starting out in the office here okay and working with the various programs I might have a different instructors doing advance cardiac life support and I'm helping to facilitate making sure everything is going okay with that. I would be over in the hospitals working with the clinical nurse specialist on the floor who are the unit-based educators. I can also be down at 1500 Market Street which is our corporate educational center and I could be helping out with whatever programs are going on down there. For instance today I came, went to the office in the morning and then went down to 1500 Market and helped with the preceptor program that we have.
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