Barbara McLean:  

here is my bio Barbara A. McLean, MN, RN, CCRN, CCNS, CRNP, FCCM Barbara McLean has been in critical care practice for 32 years. She functions as an independent, inter-national Critical Care Practice Consultant. Her current practice includes a contract with the four hospitals of the Piedmont Medical System regarding improving outcomes in Severe Sepsis. She participates as part of the critical care team as an objective observer of patient care, guiding with classroom and bedside education as well as consults. Her practice is enriched with her Guest Lecture activity at the Emory University School of Medicine and as a Clinical Faculty member of the Emory University School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms McLean is a member of many professional organizations including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American Association of Surgery and Trauma. She has been awarded the excellence in education award by the AACN and presidential citations for her volunteer efforts. While serving as a contributor to the Yearbook in Critical Care, she has also authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters and has made more than 2000 presentations nationally and internationally. Her research has been focused on blood flow and oxygenation and she continues to expand her knowledge every day in her international clinical practice. Ms McLean earned her Master of Science degree in Nursing and finished the post-Masters Nurse Practitioner Program both at Emory University. In 1991, Barbara entered her master¿s Thesis in abstract form for a poster presentation at the international congress for critical care, and the thesis was also published in ¿ Humanism in Critical Care, State of the Art, Critical Care Medicine, 1992. From that point on, she was inextricably committed to the vision and pa...Expand for more