Heather Baum Email & Phone Number

-Presently employed by Tower Health System as a Nurse Practitioner full-time with the Tower Health Weight Loss Surgery and Wellness Center and per-diem with Neurocritical Care Services- Dual certified Family and Acute Adult-Gero Care Nurse Practitioner- Doctoral Student - Actively involved with the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners.- ACLS, BLS and CCRN certifications. -Active member of the Eta Beta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. - Active committee member with the South Eastern Pennyslvania Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses- Member Neurocritical Care Society- Member Society for Critical Care Medicine- 2019-2020 Nominating Committee Member, elected, American Association of Neuroscience Nursing- 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 Tower Health Advanced Practice Practitioner Council, co-chair- Tower Health APP Pharmacology Conference Coordinator 2019- present- 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 Alvernia Alumni Council, member-Alvernia University Women's Council, member- Former coordinator for NCC morbidity and mortality, and performance improvement -10 years of bedside nursing Critical Care experience in multisystem trauma, neuro-trauma, stroke, cardiac surgery and general surgery. - 2018 to present, Neurology and Endocrine CCRN review course with SACOR- Previous teaching experience in trauma course-traumatic brain injury, and CCRN/PCCN review and MSCRN- Neurology and Endocrinology. - Yearly guest lecturer, "When You Can't Transfuse: Traumatic Injury in the Jehovah Witness Patient. A Case Review".-2016 Case Presenter at Challenges in Critical Care, Hershey PA. -2015- Coordinator for product trial of male external catheters in effort to decrease CAUTI rates. -2016- Project lead for SICU Trauma and Neuro-critical care involvement in cohort 3 of national CUSP4MVP-VAP project in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University Hospital to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia and "get patients off the ventilator faster". -2017- Past-President Greater Reading Chapter of the AACN

Listed skills include Critical Care, Bls, Acls, Acute Care, and 28 others.