School of Allied Health

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.

“We are very grateful to have Caryl join us on the board this year. She brings extensive nursing knowledge and life experience to this role,” said Dave Hanson, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNS, president of the Board of Directors of the AACN.
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