Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Sharon Irving is an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Family & Community Health, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She has a clinical appointment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the Departments of Nursing and Critical Care Medicine. Dr Irving is the current Clinical Nurse Scientist in the Critical Care Center for Evidence and Outcomes at CHOP.
The foundation of her work is nutrition therapy during and immediately following critical illness in infants and children. As a PICU provider, Dr. Irving has focused her work on obtaining and interpreting accurate anthropometric measurements, determining nutrient requirements, optimization of nutrition delivery, monitoring tolerance, and evaluating patient response to enteral nutrition in this population. She considers herself a participant in ‘team science’ and enjoys an interdisciplinary approach to clinical education and practice, research inquiry, and quality improvement initiatives.
Dr. Irving is a co-author of the comprehensive nutrition support guidelines for critically ill children, endorsed by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and is the primary author of the 'Best Practice' recommendations for nasogastric feeding tube safety in infants and children, endorsed by ASPEN. Her diligence and commitment to pediatric critical care, advancement of the Acute/Critical Care NP role, and in the field of nutrition as therapy in pediatric critical illness have earned Dr. Irving fellowships in CCM, the American Academy of Nursing, ASPEN, and the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
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