Rosemary Timmerman

Rosemary Timmerman, DNP, RN, CCNS, CCRN-CSC-CMC, serves a three-year term as a director on the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2019. She serves a one-year term as treasurer from July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019.

Since 2008, Timmerman has been a clinical nurse specialist at Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage, where she provides care and supports the nursing staff in caring for critically ill and injured adult patients in intensive care, cardiothoracic intensive care, cardiac intensive care and intermediate units. She is also adjunct faculty at University of Alaska, Anchorage. Her previous positions include 25 years as a staff nurse in the intensive care unit.

Timmerman's volunteer work with AACN involves serving on the CMC/CSC Item Writing Committee, Critical Care Nurse Continuing Education Review Panel, Region 18 Chapter Advisory Team, NTI Program Planning Committee and Beacon Award Expert Review Panel. She was a Circle of Excellence award reviewer in 2016. On the local level, she was president of AACN's South Central Alaska Chapter.

Her other affiliations include membership in Sigma Theta Tau and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists.

She has presented regionally and nationally on a wide variety of critical care topics. Her published work includes "Managing Vasoactive Infusions to Restore Hemodynamic Stability," in Nursing2016 Critical Care. In 2016, she authored a chapter in "Hemodynamic Monitoring: Evolving Technologies and Clinical Practice."

Timmerman earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice from University of South Alabama, Mobile, in 2015, a Master of Science in Nursing from Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, in 2007, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Mary of the Plains College, Dodge City, Kansas, in 1981.