Alvin JefferyAlvin D. Jeffery, PhD, RN, CCRN, FNP-BC, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studies how informatics solutions can help with clinical decision-making. Before pursung a full-time research career, Jeffery worked as the unit-based educator in a pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. During this time as an educator, Jeffery finished his master of science in nursing degree with a focus as a family nurse practitioner. He has been board-certified in both Nursing Professional Development (American Nurses Credentialing Center) and Pediatric Critical-Care Nursing (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses), and he has developed and instructed internal review courses for both of these certifications. Jeffery has facilitated several internal inservices/continuing education programs in various aspects of nursing professional and staff development and has served as a preceptor for several new educators in the pediatric ICU. He has collaborated with almost every department to help organize, design, and develop various staff development projects including, but not limited to, competency assessment tools, education record management databases, simulation implementation, and preceptor development. He is one of the authors of this book's earlier editions as well as the Staff Educator's Guide to ProfessionalDevelopment. Read More Read Less