Sharon Walters Walker

Throughout my professional career all of my positions have involved sharing my expertise; teaching; evaluation; problem solving; mentoring; change agent; coaching; and direct patient/student involvement. I am most "alive" when I see the nurse/student fulfill their greatest potential.

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor 1988-1996
• ACLS Provider 2010-2012
• CPR 2016-2018

• Contributing Author to Pelican News, Louisiana State Association 1993, Client Advocacy in the ICU: Nurse and Client at Risk.
• Contributing Author in Williams, S.,ed. Decision Making in Critical Care Nursing. Toronto: BC Decker, 1990. Chapters: Pulse Oximetry; Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP); Ventilator Weaning; Hemodynamic Monitoring; Intracranial Pressure Monitoring; Vasoactive Drugs.

• 2/24/2014 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Sepsis Bundles 2008/2014 Northwestern Potpourri Seminar
• 3/9/12 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome LSRT Mid Winter Seminar Radiology
• 3/15-3/17 2011 Poster Presentation : Medication Administration (MAR) Project: Using Deductive Logic to Formulate a Nursing Plan of Care 11th Annual Nurse Educator Institute,Branson,MO
• 3/2010 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome LSRT Mid Winter Seminar Radiology
• 6/5-7, 2001 SIRS : Early Recognition for the Bedside Nurse Critical Care Connections: Surf into Summer Willis Knighton Health Systems Target Audience:Telemetry, Critical Care, Stepdown
• 6/22/01 Arterial Blood Gases Interpreting Diagnostic Tests:What to do and When Northwestern State University Continuing Education
• 10/00 Attributes in Biothethical Healthcare Decision Making. Building Your Own Team Seminar Northwestern Continuing Education Workshop
• 10/98 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Clinical Issues at the Bedside Northwestern Continuing Education Workshop
• 1/98 Proving Your Worth in the Downsizing Environment: Rosen=s 8 Principles of Leadership for the Visionary Leader; Middle Manager Seminar Northwestern Continuing Education Workshop
• 3/97 Primary Faciliotor of eight hour workshop for Lifecare Hospitals. Presented Topics on: Leadership Styles;Visionary Leadership; Rosen=s 8 Principles ;Delegation; Conflict Resolution; Team Building
• 4/96 Delegation; Conflict Resolution VA Department of Nursing; Leadership Workshop
• 4/93 through 6/95 Developed Institution Wide Healthcare Ethics Policies/Procedures for Bossier Medical Center Presented Seminars on: Principles of Ethics Ethical Decision Making in the Clinical Area Death and Dying Images of the Healer Advanced Directive Interpretation in the Use of Life sustaining Treatment Withdrawal of Life Support in the Terminally Ill Patient: Actual Case Presentation Assisting the Patient to Identify Quality of Life Expectations Through the Use of Advanced Directives: A Multidisciplinary Team Approach@
• 10/95 Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist: Line vs Staff Northwestern College of Nursing MSN Program
• 10/94 Shared Governance Shreveport District Nurse Association
• 4/94 Coronary Artery Stenting with Anil Chhabra MD Medical Staff CE, Bossier Medical Center
• 4/94 Advanced Hemodynamic Concepts for the Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist Videotaped for Master=s Program class content
• 4/93 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS): Septic Shock Louisiana Perinatal Association Conference
• 4/93 SIRS: Septic Shock and the Nurse Epidemiologist Shreveport/Bossier Chapter RN Epidemiologist
• 10/91 Conflict Resolution NSU, MSN Program
• 9/91 Client Advocacy and Risk-Taking Sigma Theta Tau Research Conference
• 4/91 Nursing Assessment of the Multiple Trauma Patient AACN Northwest Chapter Annual Workshop
• 12/91-6/86 Hemodynamic Monitoring for the Critical Care Nurse Basic Credential LSUMC Critical Care Course
• 6/90 Delegation; Situational Leadership; and Conflict Resolution LSUMC Nursing Management Seminar
• 4/90 Delegation and Conflict Resolution Institution Wide Management Conference Bossier Medical Center
• 3/86 The Sick Heart: Hemodynamic and the Cardiac Patient: Decision Making at the Bedside Critical Care Workshop Schumpert Medical Center
• 11/85 Setting Priorities in the ICU for the Multiple Trauma Patient AACN Northwest LA Chapter Workshop
• 9/81-10/85 Developed and Implemented 80 hour Critical Care Course at Bossier Medical Center; serving as speaker for entire course which included 10 hour Basic Arrhythmia Course. Course served as Prototype for Critical Care Course taken by me to LSUMC in 1985 which served the entire city . Developed all Credentials specific to Critical Care Course: Didactic and Psychomotor: Basic Arrhythmias; Ventilator Management; Hemodynamic Monitoring; Intra-aortic Balloon Monitoring; Arterial Line Monitoring; Vasoactive Drugs Served as prototype for Credentialing throughout entire city.

• 2019 Critical Care Clin Spec CE 30 hrs
• March 2018 Active Learning in the Contemporary Classroom
• September 2018 2nd Stroke Fighters Symposium
• February 2017 Updating Your Practice: The 2017 Sepsis Guidelines
• February 2017 Research Writing Success Strategies for Nursing Faculty
• March 2017 Leadership Development for Nursing Faculty
• 2016 December 2016 Incorporating Technology Into Nursing Education Louisiana April 2016 Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia Louisiana October 2016 N1703 Death,Dying,and Bereavement : Essential Concepts Louisiana
• September 2015 Healthcare Ethics Louisiana
• 2014 1/27/14 What’s Nice to Teach versus What Must Be Taught Sylvia Rayfield 4.0 CH 3/31/14 Building The Best Academic Environment : Enhancing Nursing Education Linda Caputi 4.0 CH
• 2013 4/15/13 NSU CE Healthcare Ethics 5.0 CH 8/22/13 AACN Alteplase Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism CH 1.00 8/22/13 AACN Rapid Response Teams: Qualitative Analysis of Their Effectiveness CH 1.00
• 9/30/13 AACN PAD: Assessing Pain,Agitation,Delerium : The New Guidelines and 10 Points for Compliance 1.0 CH 10/12/13 NSU Clinical Potpourri Speaker: Surviving Sepsis Campaign
• 2012 Nursing Informatics: Curricular Integration – March 19-20, 2012 (10.25 hours) Journey to Greatness: Nursing’s Path to Knowledge and Research – March 30, 2012 (5.5 hours) APRN 30 hours for recertification on file
• 2011 3/18/2011 - New Horizons on Patient Safety, (5.75 hours) 5/2/2011 - The First Annual College of Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Symposium 10/24/2011 - SimChart Webinar, (1.0 hours) 10/31/2011 - Cerner Electronic Health Record Webinar, (1.0 hours APRN 30 hours for recertification on file
• 2010 4/19/10 - Success Tips for Nursing Faculty: Writing for Publications (4.5 Hours) APRN 30 hours for recertification on file
• 2009 NSU Fall Faculty Institute - August 21, 2009 APRN 30 hours for recertification on file
• 2008 Simulation Technology in Education and Practice – 11/13/08 (1 hour) Review, Revise & Re-energize Faculty: How to Make Writing Test Questions Easy- 9/15/08 (6.25 hours) Boot Camp for Nurse Educators, Albuquerque, NM - 1/31/08 (20.25 hours) APRN 30 hours for recertification on file