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Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Geisinger Medical Center Danville
Danville, Pennsylvania
Brenda Engler, MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN is a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner at Geisinger Health System and clinical adjunct faculty for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at Drexel University. She started her career in critical care as a bedside nurse in 2002. Once comfortable in the nursing role, she passed her knowledge on to new nurses at the bedside serving as a clinical preceptor as well as serving as a mentor in the electronic ICU which monitors the intensive care units throughout the Geisinger Health System. She decided to further her education at Drexel University and received a MSN as an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in 2011.
As she started her new career as a critical care provider, she also started her involvement with the Society of Critical Care Medicine by teaching the adult Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS) course. She is always excited to pass her knowledge to others. She was part of the team of instructors that brought the first FCCS course to The Sudan in 2013. She has returned to The Sudan three additional times to teach FCCS, Fundamentals of Disaster Management (FDM), and critical care nursing topics for resource limited settings. She was also taught FCCS, FDM, and FCCS Obstetrics (OB) with a diverse team representing SCCM at the All Africa Anesthesia Conference in Abjua, Nigeria in 2017.
In 2017 at the SCCM Annual Congress, she participated in the first pilot FCCS-OB course and served as a co-author for the surgical chapter of the first addition of the course textbook. She is currently working as one of the co-editors for the second edition of the FCCS-OB course textbook which is currently in development. She is passionate about all of the Fundamentals courses and serves as a course director and instructor for many courses.
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