This section contains selected profiles in excellence of nurse practitioners (NP) working at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Jennifer Trenary and Michelle Willis
Jennifer Trenary and Michelle Willis
"We are consistent."
"We work well together."
"They are reliable and dedicated."
Nurse practitioners have become the backbone behind the trauma admission teams at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. “Residents and fellows rotate through the trauma service, attending physicians change on a weekly schedule, but the nurse practitioners are the support that holds up the team.”
Patients benefit from nurse practitioner practice since these NPs provide expert clinical care and a cohesive plan for each individual patient admitted to the service.
Pictured to the right are Jennifer Trenary and Michelle Willis. Michelle Willis was one of the first nurse practitioners on the trauma admission teams at the Shock Trauma Center and was instrumental in shaping the role. Key to her success as a nurse practitioner is her constant drive to improve her practice through education.
Jennifer Trenary has been an employee at UMMC -- Shock Trauma Center since 1997 and returned as a nurse practitioner after broadening her experience working with a neurology/neurosurgery group at Washington Adventist Hospital. Jennifer has helped her trauma admitting team excel through her excellent bedside acumen and commitment to a teamwork approach to patient care.
Robby Klawitter, MS, CRNP
Robby Klawitte
Health care is changing at a rapid pace due to both advances in technology and therapies available to patients. Changes in healthcare have also caused a drive to move patients out of the hospital system at a more rapid pace. Patients at the University of Maryland Medical Center are sicker and require much more advanced critical care than ever before.
Robby Klawitter, MS, CRNP (right) observes and has a direct impact on these phenomenoa on a daily basis. Robby is a nurse practitioner in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. Working closely with intensivists, physicians with specialty training in the management of the critically ill patient, surgeons and nurses. Robby provides comprehensive care to this population of patients with extremely high acuity and multiple co-morbidities.
As a bedside nurse in the CT ICU, Robby laid his nursing foundation for years prior to returning to graduate school. Now as an advanced practice nurse, he is truly involved in every aspect of the patient’s care during his or her stay in the unit.
Robby’s close interaction with patients raises the level of care by performing consistent, expert care in a timely fashion. He is continuously on the unit performing focused patient examinations, conducting highly technical procedures, ordering treatment changes for the quickly changing patients, and recommending urgent and non-urgent therapeutics.
He is integral in educating fellow team members about both disease processes and system management issues. His work impacts the unit’s outcomes on multiple levels, including length of stay for patients as he facilitates flow in and out of the unit, nursing satisfaction by timely responses to the bedside clinical observation, and team cohesiveness among the panel of providers caring for patients in this area.
The University of Maryland is proud to have Robby as part of the CT ICU Team -- a dedicated nurse practitioner with unwavering commitment to the patients who he serves.
Carol Wade, MSN, CRNP and Sharon Augustine, MS, CRNP
Carol Wade and Sharon Augustine
Carol Wade, MSN, CRNP and Sharon Augustine, MS, CRNP (right) are two nurse practitioners at the University of Maryland Medical Center without much time in their day to discuss their accomplishments.
Employees of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the Medical Center, they manage the heart and lung transplant patients throughout the preoperative, transplant, and post-transplant continuum. Their unique role includes the holistic management of this complicated patient population, often with multisystem comorbidities and complex treatment plans.
Patients are fortunate to find their way into Carol and Sharon’s care, as they are with them for life. Under transplant regulations, these patients are followed through the surgical phase of their care and into the outpatient setting, where they are monitored every four months at a minimum. One of three nurse practitioners (Carol, Sharon, or Suzanne Lanks, CRNP) is on call for the service at all times and patients experience fewer complications, and a greater satisfaction directly related to their meticulous care.
The two are known institution-wide for their expertise in the management of immunosuppression and transplantation. They have published extensively in this area and have served as members of local and national professional organizations targeting improvement in process for transplant patients.
One of many noteworthy accomplishments is the book co-authored by Sharon titled Transplantation Nursing: Acute and Long-Term Management, which received distinction by Brandon/Hill on the Selected List of Nursing Books and Journals.
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