Myra King

Myra King, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACNS-BC, CCRN-CSC, FCNS, serves a three-year term as a director on the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Board of Directors from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029.

King is director of advanced practice nursing and a clinical nurse specialist in the CVICU at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Her healthcare experience includes 28 years as a registered nurse with the first nine years as a staff nurse and clinical instructor, and the last 17 as a clinical nurse specialist. Her clinical expertise is critical care with a focus on caring for the cardiac and thoracic surgical patient populations. She has focused on initiatives to reduce hospital-acquired infections, and improve quality outcomes, patient safety and patients’ experiences.

Her AACN activities include being a member of the AACN – AACN Certification Corporation Nominating Committee, 2024-2025, a member of the API Program Planning Committee, 2022, a Beacon Award reviewer, 2016-2018, and an item writer for the CSC exam, 2015. Additional affiliations include the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, where she served as co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee.

King has spoken locally, nationally and internationally on the care of postoperative cardiac surgery patients, ventricular assist devices, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy and end-of-life care. She completed four research studies as primary investigator on chest tube management, child visitation in the ICU, ICU delirium recognition and pressure injuries. King has published in peer-reviewed journals and authored two book chapters.

She received the March of Dimes’ Ohio Nurse of the Year Advanced Practice Award and is a two-time recipient of the Nancy Albert Excellence in Nursing Research Award. She received the Research Abstract Award from AACN and several Employee Recognition awards from Cleveland Clinic. She received the Linnea Henderson Award for Academic Achievement from Kent State University.

For the past two years, she served as captain of the VeloSano “Bike to Cure” Nursing Institute Team, an initiative that raises funds to support lifesaving cancer research at Cleveland Clinic. This year, she and her husband will participate in the 25-mile ride. As a breast cancer survivor, the opportunity to contribute to this mission is especially meaningful to her. She says, “I never thought I’d like bike riding, but I’ve grown to love it!”

King graduated magna cum laude with a BSN from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, She earned an MSN from Kent State University and a DNP from the University of Akron.