Perioperative Practice Consultant
Kaiser Permanente
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Jennifer Mendenhall, MSN, RN, CNL, CHSE, CNOR is the Perioperative Practice Consultant and Professional Development Leader for 21 hospitals within the Scholars Academy, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California region. In her role, Jenny creates, implements and co-ordinates multimodal regional educational programs to include perioperative immersion programs for student nurses, student nurse preceptorships and AORN periOp 101. Introducing and training new graduate nurses and experienced nurses transitioning to perioperative services is a major focus of her work. Jenny also provides learning opportunities, resources and mentorship to perioperative leaders and educators. Jenny has developed simulation programs for perioperative multidisciplinary critical event team training, sim labs for registered and student nurses learning about perioperative nursing and interactive surgery focused community events for high school students. Jenny received her diploma in Nursing from the Nightingale School of Nursing, St. Thomas Hospital, London, U.K, her BSN from Chamberlain college of nursing and her MSN from the University of San Francisco, California. She is a TeamSTEPPs Master instructor and a certified healthcare simulation educator (CHSE).