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Catherine Tierney, DNP, ACNP

Georgetown University School of Nursing

Catherine Tierney, DNP, ACNP-BC is a clinical expert with more than 20 years of critical care experience as an acute care nurse practitioner specializing in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery.

Tierney obtained a BSN from Fairfield University and worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Georgetown Medical Center before obtaining a master’s degree in trauma and critical care from the University of Maryland. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Duke University in 2019.

Tierney is the Director of the Adult Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Georgetown University Berkley School of Nursing since July, 2023. Prior to that, she served as the Clinical Faculty Advisor (CFA) Director since 2014 and has guided dozens of students through their clinical experiences. She serves on the SCCM Nursing Section Programming Committee as the Chair-elect.

Tierney's interests include critical care medicine with a focus on post-surgical care, mechanical ventilation management and the use of standardized patients and high-fidelity simulation to teach clinical competence. She has published several articles relating to respiratory disease, mechanical ventilation and critical care. Tierney has spoken locally and nationally on critical care topics as well as topics related to advanced practice education, measuring clinical competence in a distance learning environment, and clinical mentoring.

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