Kayla Koch

• Instructing healthcare ethics to undergraduate and graduate nursing students
• Instructing specialized graduate courses for NP nursing program and leadership program, with content focused on NICU ethics, psychiatric ethics, ethics in nurse leadership, and family nursing. Content includes analysis of best interest standard and workshopping case studies.

• Providing ethics consultation services and policy advising for small healthcare facilities, including advising on vaccination policies and faith-based vaccination exemptions
• Active member of local ethics committees, providing emergent ethics consultations, review and modification of orientation materials and member training, review of physician-proxy and advance directive policies, and educational presentations
• Ethicist for local hospital system COVID triage team

• Tutored K-12 in various subjects; in-person and remote

• Tutored early reading and study skills, ages 6-16; in-person/at-home and remote

• Assisted with SSDI client intake, gathering evidence, and preparation for hearings

• Drafted judicial opinions and attended hearings

As President from 2021-2022, increased educational initiatives to focus on healthcare ethics issues impacting vulnerable and under-represented individuals in Colorado.

• Assisted in the development and implementation of a regional ethics council for AdventHealth with a mission of supporting ethics committees and mission leaders across the hospital system, improving educational outreach, and participating in policy development/revision

• Assisted in the development and implementation of a regional ethics council for AdventHealth with a mission of supporting ethics committees and mission leaders across the hospital system, improving educational outreach, and participating in policy development/revision