Nurse/professor named keynote speaker for Minds@Work

The annual Minds@Work Student Research Conference will be here in less than a month. Student presenters are polishing their presentations and posters in anticipation of the 29th annual conference coming on Monday, April 4.

The majority of the conference will be held virtually on Zoom. Specific presentations, such as Hammel award finalists, will be presented in person.

Highlighting this year’s conference will be a keynote address from Dr. Kim Raines, assistant professor of nursing at Penn State. Dr. Raines has been in nursing for 31 years, the majority of her experience coming in cardiac and medical ICU areas. Currently, she teaches full time at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pennsylvania. 

As a full-time professor, Dr. Raines is passionate about training new nurses, sharpening their clinical judgment and emphasizing competent care and a patient-centered experience. She focuses on quality, evidence-based patient care, having designed and implemented two successful, hospital-wide sepsis quality improvement projects through education of nurses, process analysis and innovation. She is a graduate of the Jamestown Community College (AND), Penn State Behrend (BSN) and the University of Pittsburgh (DNP).

The keynote will be via Zoom. Stay tuned for details.