Caryl Goodyear-Bruch is new president-elect of the AACN Board of Directors
Jul 17, 2007
Caryl Goodyear-Bruch, RN, PhD, CCRN
Caryl Goodyear-Bruch, RN, PhD, CCRN, clinical associate professor in the Department of Nurse Anesthesia Education at the University of Kansas School of Allied Health, has been named president-elect of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). She will assume the duties of president on July 1, 2008.
Goodyear-Bruch is a critical care clinical nurse specialist and clinical associate professor at the University of Kansas Hospital and University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
A member of AACN since 1981, Goodyear-Bruch served on the AACN Board of Directors from 2003 to 2006 and was a member of the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors in 2005-06. She previously served as chair of the association’s Education Work Group and as a community liaison to the AACN board.
Goodyear-Bruch is a member of the Greater Kansas City Chapter of AACN, where she has held a variety of offices on its board of directors, including scholarship chair, education chair, treasurer and president. In addition, Goodyear-Bruch is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society.
At her current job, Goodyear-Bruch is a member of the KUMC Graduate Council and the Doctorate of Nursing Practice Task Force.