Carly Byrne

Carly Byrne, DNP, APRN, PCNS-BC, CCNS, CPN, CCRN, FCNS, serves a three-year term as a director on the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026. She held a one-year term as secretary/treasurer from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025.

Byrne is a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. Her primary areas of focus are professional governance, professional practice, evidence-based practice and implementation science.

Her AACN volunteer activities include membership on the NTI Program Planning Committee (2023, 2022, 2017), serving as chair in 2023 and co-chair in 2022. She has been a Beacon Award reviewer and served on the certification exam committees for the pediatric CNS exam. Byrne has given several presentations at AACN’s National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition. In addition, she is a manuscript reviewer for the journal Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, and a member of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Byrne has received awards from the March of Dimes in the categories of Distinguished Nurse of the Year and APRN Nurse of the Year. She also received the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board’s CPN (Certified Pediatric Nurse) Certification Advocate Award.

She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice with a concentration in transformative leadership systems, and a Master of Science in Nursing, both from Rush University, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Byrne says, “In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, reading, and hiking in the mountains.”