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Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Chicago
Springfield, Illinois, United States
Dr. Rebecca Vortman is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago teaching Doctor of Nursing Practice courses for the Population Health Nursing Science department and serves as a Perioperative Education Consultant. Dr. Vortman has over ten years of experience in perioperative nursing, education, and leadership. She is recognized as a national and regional leader through the AORN Forty Under 40 program and the Illinois Nurses Foundation Forty Under 40 program. Her policy focus is on workplace safety initiatives and surgical smoke plume evacuation practices. She has disseminated her scholarly work through publications and presentations at the local, regional, and national levels. She co-led an Illinois-based grassroots coalition to successfully pass a surgical smoke plume evacuation law in Illinois. She received a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Illinois Chicago. Her scholarly DNP project evaluated the use of perioperative core-curriculum modules and nurse intent to remain in the operating room. She is certified as an operating room nurse (CNOR) through the Competency and Credentialing Institute and holds a nurse executive advanced certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CDT
Friday, March 25, 2022