Dr. Carol Thompson Named Master of Critical Care Medicine in Society of Critical Care Medicine
Carol Thompson, PhD, DNP, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, FCCM, FAANP, FAAN, professor and assistant dean of MSN & DNP Program Studies, will now have the highest honor bestowed in the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) as a Master of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM).
This designation honors SCCM Fellows who have distinguished themselves by achieving national and international professional prominence due to personal character, leadership, eminence in clinical practice, outstanding contributions to research and education in critical care medicine, or years of exemplary service to SCCM, ACCM, and the field of critical care medicine in its broadest sense.
As a Past President of SCCM (only 3 nurses in its history), Dr. Thompson has made extraordinary contributions to advance acute care NP education, clinical practice and scholarship. Now, Dr. Thompson is setting history again as the 2nd nurse with the distinction of MCCM. She will be inducted at the SCCM 48th Critical Care Congress, which will be held February 17-20, 2019, at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, California.
Dr. Thompson is a leader in critical care nursing. She was the first acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) and the second nurse to be president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine; the first ACNP on the national board of directors of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; the first ACNP to serve on the Tennessee Board of Nursing; and was among the first 100 nurses to be certified as an ACNP. During her 27-year academic career she developed one of the early ACNP programs at the MSN and then DNP level. As she embraced technological advances in education she became a founding member of the Society of Medical Simulation and developed expertise in online learning. Her scholarship interests have included dyspnea, pain, agitation, delirium and mobility in critically ill adults. Since 2013 she has delivered more than 30 international presentations. Dr. Thompson received her BSN from Florida State University, an MS in nursing from the University of Maryland, a PhD in nursing from Case Western Reserve University, and a DNP from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She has achieved Fellow status in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nursing.
