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Kathleen is a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Consultant. Ms. Vollman has published & lectured throughout North & South America and overseas on a variety of pulmonary, critical care & professional nursing topics. She earned her nursing degree from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan and her Master’s in Critical Care Nursing from California State University in Long Beach. From 1989 to 2003 she functioned in the role of Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Medical Critical Care Area at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Michigan. Currently her company, ADVANCING NURSING, is focused on creating empowered work environments for nurses through the acquisition of greater skills and knowledge. Kathleen received the Florence Nightingale award for Clinical Practice in 1996. In addition she designed & developed the Vollman Prone Positioner. Ms. Vollman is listed in Who’s Who of American Inventors. In 2009, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing and in 2012 was appointed as an honorary ambassador to the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses Specialties: Integration of sepsis guidelines into practice, change agent, educator, process improvement, implementation of evidence based care, mobility in the critically ill patient, Strategies for reducing health care acquired infections.