Carol Olff

Carol Olff, DNP, RN, CCRN, NEA-BC, serves a two-year term as chair-elect of the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2028. She completed a one-year term as secretary/treasurer on June 30, 2026, and served a three-year term as a director from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026.

Olff has been a nurse for over 40 years, with most of her career in critical care settings. Since 2013, she has been director of critical care services at John Muir Health, Concord Medical Center, Concord, California, where she oversees two critical care units, two step-down units, a cardiovascular stroke unit, and the meal and break team. Most recently, she added the responsibility of nursing professional development, which includes nursing education, nurse residency programs and academic partnerships for the placement of nursing students.

She says, “I could not ask to work with a better team of professional nurses. I am in awe of them every day and so proud of how they navigate every challenge with knowledge, creativity and professionalism. Their resilience reminds me of why I went into nursing in the first place.”

She is co-author of “Standards for Titrated Infusions and the Impact on Nursing Practice,” in Journal of Radiology Nursing (2022) and “Thematic Analysis of Nurses’ Experiences With The Joint Commission’s Medication Management Titration Standards,” in American Journal of Critical Care (2021). In 2019 and 2024, she received the Compassionate Leader Award from John Muir Health.

Olff earned a DNP from Chamberlain University, an MSN from the University of Phoenix, and a BSN from California State University, Fresno.

In her spare time, Olff has played in a bocce ball league for over 20 years. She also loves to play cards, attend music venues and travel, “especially to Anchorage, Alaska, where three of my grandkids reside.”