Nursing Skills Lab Manager/Instructor
Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Kerstin Hudgins, MSN, RN, CCRN, CEN
Kerstin Hudgins is a certified critical care nurse (CCRN) with forty years in global healthcare. She is a nurse educator and faculty at the School of Nursing at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC. Kerstin Hudgins serves as a clinical instructor and nursing skills lab manager who develops, implements, and improves clinical simulation learning programs. Her professional background is well-rounded. A native of Germany, where Kerstin completed her initial training, she came to the United States in 1981 and furthered her education. She worked herself through the ranks and obtained an ADN from Regents of the University of the State of New York, her bachelor's and master's degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and is currently completing her doctorate in educational leadership at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She spent 21 years in acute critical care at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, NC, retired from full-time nursing, and entered academia in 2018. She continues to work part-time in the ICU at Brunswick Medical Center in Bolivia, NC, a constituent of Novant Health, and functions as an ACLS instructor for the hospital throughout the year. She has been actively involved with SCCM since 2015 when her 30-bed Adult ICU got selected by SCCM for the 2- year ICU-Liberation Collaborative. In 2017 she presented at the snapshot theater at SCCM's 48th Critical Care Congress. Subsequently, she became an abstract reviewer and moderator for SCCM's critical care congresses. She joined SCCM's Research Section Simulation and Education Committee in 2020 and is now co-chair, forming a multi-professional team. Kerstin is an active member of various nursing organizations, well-published, and was named one of the Great 100 Nurses of NC in 2016.
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