Carol Olff

Carol Olff, DNP, RN, CCRN, NEA-BC, serves a one-year term as secretary/treasurer on the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. She continues 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.”

An AACN ambassador since 2011, Olff was a reviewer for the Beacon Award program (2021-2023) and a coordinator for NTI ExpoEd’s TeleCritical Care Learning Center (2012-2023). She was a member of the AACN TeleICU Task Force (2017-2018; 2010-2012) and has presented teleICU topics at NTI and other venues. Olff is currently a member of AACN’s San Francisco and Alameda Contra Costa chapters.

Additional affiliations include membership in Sigma Theta Tau, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Association of California Nurse Leaders, where she served as president of the East Bay Chapter (2020-2021).

A few of her publications include co-author of “Standards for Titrated Infusions and the Impact on Nursing Practice,” in Journal of Radiology Nursing (2022), and co-author of “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 Doctor of Nursing Practice from Chamberlain University, a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University, Fresno.

In her spare time, Olff has played in a bocce ball league for over 15 years. She enjoys attending her husband’s rock band gigs and loves to travel, “especially to Anchorage, Alaska, where three of my grandkids reside.”