2025 UCAACN Summer Symposium

Barbara McLean has been in critical care practice for 35 years. She functions as an independent, inter-national Critical Care Practice Consultant. She participates as part of the critical care team as an objective observer of patient care, guiding with classroom and bedside education as well as consults. Her practice is enriched with her Guest Lecture activity at the Emory University School of Medicine and as a Clinical Faculty member of the Emory University School of Nursing in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms McLean is a member of many professional organizations including the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American Association of Surgery and Trauma. She has been awarded the excellence in education award by the AACN and the SCCM has presented her with presidential citations for her volunteer efforts. She has also authored or co-authored numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters and has made more than 2000 presentations nationally and internationally. Her research has been focused on blood flow and oxygenation and she continues to expand her knowledge every day in her international clinical practice.

Kathleen is a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Consultant. Ms. Vollman has published & lectured throughout North & South America and overseas on a variety of pulmonary, critical care & professional nursing topics. She earned her nursing degree from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan and her Master’s in Critical Care Nursing from California State University in Long Beach. From 1989 to 2003 she functioned in the role of Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Medical Critical Care Area at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Michigan. Currently her company, ADVANCING NURSING, is focused on creating empowered work environments for nurses through the acquisition of greater skills and knowledge. Kathleen received the Florence Nightingale award for Clinical Practice in 1996. In addition she designed & developed the Vollman Prone Positioner. Ms. Vollman is listed in Who’s Who of American Inventors. In 2009, she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing and in 2012 was appointed as an honorary ambassador to the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses Specialties: Integration of sepsis guidelines into practice, change agent, educator, process improvement, implementation of evidence based care, mobility in the critically ill patient, Strategies for reducing health care acquired infections.

Angela Craig, APN, MS, CCNS has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist for over 20 years. The past 10 years she has worked with Cookeville Regional Medical Center as the Clinical Nurse Specialist for ICU and has worked with their sepsis initiative. She chairs the Sepsis Team at the hospital and CRMC was the first hospital in the state of TN to get sepsis certification through the Joint Commission. She has presented at the national, state and local level on sepsis.

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