The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas The University of Texas, Houston
Author's Note: The author wishes to acknowledge the guidance and mentorship of Jane Mahoney, DSN, APRN, BC, assistant professor of nursing, Nursing for Target Populations at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. It was through her encouragement that this manuscript became a reality.
Delmar Imperial-Aubin, MSN, RN, CCRN, is a staff nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit of The Methodist Hospital, an acute nurse practitioner graduate student of the University of Texas Health Science Center, and currently the president-elect of the Houston Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Recent presentations include “ The Drip, Drip of CSF in TAAA Repair” (with J. M. Hyden) and “A Labor of Collaboration: Decreasing Noise in the ICU” (with S. Seeley, K. Knaack, F. Masud, & L. Armstrong), both presented in 2005 at the National Teaching Institute of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
