Marci Lynn Ebberts, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CCRN

Marci Ebberts is director of nursing research at Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to her research and professional development role, she served as Saint Luke’s STEMI program coordinator and critical care educator. She began her critical care nursing career over 25 years ago as a direct care nurse in the cardiac ICU and continues to support excellence in nursing by maintaining critical care certification since 2004. Ebberts holds two MSN degrees (St. Luke’s College and Rockhurst University) and has published articles in American Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Nurse (including “Certification Test Prep” questions) and Nursing. She has also edited several chapters of an AACN procedural manual and presented at meetings and conferences nationwide.

Beth Melton Poppas, MSN, RN, CCRN, PCCN, GERO-BC, CNEcl, NPD-BC, CV-BC

Beth Poppas is a progressive care clinical nurse educator at Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, Virginia. Her more than 30-year nursing career has focused on adult critical care and undergraduate education at a wide variety of healthcare and educational facilities across the country. The wife of a recently retired Army officer, Poppas is very involved with the military community, serving in multiple volunteer leadership and advocacy roles over the last two decades. She holds an MSN from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a BSN from Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. For the past few years, Beth has co-led AACN's quarterly Certification Review Webinar Series, and has been featured as one of the presenters at NTI and for AACN’s PCCN and CCRN recorded review courses. She also leads review courses for CCRN, PCCN, medical-surgical and gerontological nursing certifications

Kristin O. Sollars, MSN, RN, CCRN

Kristin Sollars is currently a change pro for BJC Healthsystem in Kansas City, Missouri, helping nurses navigate change as two large health systems combine. She also works weekly as an ICU float nurse at Saint Luke’s Health System, also in Kansas City. With more than two decades in nursing, she evenly splits her time between ICU bedside care and clinical education. She earned an MSN in nursing education from the University of Central Missouri, a BSN from William Jewell College and a BA in psychology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Sollars has been published in American Journal of Critical Care, Nursing and Critical Care Nurse. She also shared her perspective on being a nurse through a StoryCorps interview that aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”