Barbara McLean:
CLASS OF 1970
Lawrence Central High SchoolClass of 1970
Indianapolis, IN
Barbara's Story
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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
th for critical care practice, patient safety, and quality initiatives and best practice for all patients worldwide.
Over the next eighteen years, she has been involved with multiple volunteer efforts, including developing the Fundamentals in Critical Care Textbook, patient safety initiatives, work in her own community (outreach health care in the Thomasville Heights project, nurse practitioner at the Olympic Park, Atlanta GA, 1996 Olympics) as well as in Nicaragua for education regarding critically ill burned children, in Tanzania Africa developing basic critical care education and practice and at the Houston Astro arena on day one of evacuation from Hurricane Katrina. Her focus and contributions include the integration of all team members into practice and practice decisions, the evolving communication between care providers, patients and families and patient safety initiatives. In February 2001, she was the 20th nurse in the history of the critical care society to be inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Critical Care Medicine, SCCM, which is a profound honor, and in 2004 and again in 2007 she was elected to an at-large seat on the governing council for the SCCM, working to determine the future of medicine in general and critical care specifically.
In 2009, Barbara has spent over three months in volunteer healthcare development and provision, completely independently and unfunded. She has also written 12 chapters for various critical care textbooks and reviewed over 15 articles for the primary intensive care journal, Critical Care Medicine.
As an educator, provider and practitioner, Barbara is committed to patient care and safety; critical care practice, collegial communication and evidence-based issues at the bedside. Most importantly, every day of her personal and practice life are spent working towards improving care for patients and families.
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