Kristine Peterson, RN, MS, CCRN, CCNS, begins a one-year term as
president-elect of the American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses (AACN) Board of Directors effective July 1, 2009. She’s
held numerous local and national positions with the association,
chairing its national advanced practice work group from 2003 to
2004 and serving a term as secretary on the AACN Board of Directors
from 2008 to 2009.
Peterson brings to her role as president-elect 30 years of critical
care nursing experience in advanced practice, management and
education. She is most recently a clinical nurse specialist at Park
Nicollet Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, Minn. A clinical nurse
specialist at Fairview Riverside Medical Center, Minneapolis from
1992 to 1996, she served as clinical educator/instructor at Georgetown
University Hospital, Washington, from 1987 to 1992 and ICU/CCU director
at HCA Valley Regional Medical Center, Brownsville, Texas, from 1986
to 1987. She held staff nurse positions at the University of Minnesota
Hospitals, Minneapolis; and St. Mary’s Hospital and Rochester Methodist
Hospitals both in Rochester, Minn.
Peterson, a member of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau
International, earned her bachelor of science in nursing degree from
St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., and master of science in nursing
from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She lives in
Plymouth, Minn.
