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Clinical Nurse Specialists

Clinical nurse specialists (CNS) at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota are organizational clinical leaders through patient care, research, education, complex care coordination, and consultation.

The CNS partners and collaborates with many disciplines to support unit-based and system-wide quality improvement and assure best practices. They provide patient care and clinical consultation at the advanced practice level for outpatients and inpatients. Clinical specialists provide education in their areas of expertise to individual nursing units as well as for regional and national conference. Many CNSs are involved as principal and co-investigators on research projects.

The following is a listing of Clinical Nurse Specialists at Children’s

Name

Specialty

Email

Maura Fitzgerald
  • Integrative Medicine
  • Complementary/Alternative Medicine in Pediatrics
  • Integrative Medicine Research

maura.fitzgerald@childrensmn.org

Casey Hooke
  • Pediatric Oncology
  • Nursing Research
  • Development of Consent and Assent for Pediatric Research

Casey.hooke@childrensmn.org

Karen Mathias
  • Pediatric and Neonatal Simulation Training
  • Pediatric Emergency Care

Karen.mathias@childrensmn.org

Judy Reitmeyer-Hunt
  • Perioperative Nursing
  • Nursing Research
  • The Universal Protocol Clinical Excellence Team

judy.reitmeyer-hunt@childrensmn.org

Barb Symalla
  • Pain Management
  • APRN Provider Credentialing

Barb.symalla@childrensmn.org

Sally Walstrom
  • Neonatal Critical Care
  • NIDCAP certified
  • Care of the Late-preterm infant
  • Developmental Care of Infants

Sally.walstrom@childrensmn.org