Meet our Nurse Scholars-in-Residence
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Cecilia Zamarripa, RN, MSN, CWON
Current Nurse Scholar-in-Residence
Will serve as the project leader from October 1, 2010 through December 31, 2011.
Cecilia Zamarripa is a Board Certified Wound and Ostomy Nurse with more than 29 years of clinical experience. She is currently practicing as a wound and ostomy care nurse specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian campus, where she serves as a staff, patient and family educator, preceptor for Masters and undergraduate nursing students, and clinician in ostomy and wound care, providing inpatient and outpatient consultations and follow-up care for patients with bowel and bladder diversions.
Ms. Zamarripa has presented on peer-reviewed specialty topics such as negative pressure wound therapy in pressure ulcer care, topical management of peristomal skin conditions, pressure ulcer prevention in the spinal cord injury client, and promoting culturally competent nursing care.
She has co-authored a peer reviewed article titled, The Significance of Culture in the Care of the Ostomy Client, and a book chapter titled, People of Mexican Heritage.
In addition to her clinical positions, she has taught community health nursing theory and clinical at Slippery Rock University and undergraduate community health clinical nursing at Duquesne University.
Ms. Zamarripa earned her BSN from the University of Texas Arlington in 1982 and her MSN from Duquesne University in 2007. She is currently enrolled as a PhD nursing student at Duquesne University where her research interest is pressure ulcer prevention, vulnerable populations and accurate skin assessments of persons with darker skin tones.
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Diane Whitworth, CWOCN
Former Nurse Scholar-in-Residence
Served as the project leader from April 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010.
Diane has been a Board Certified Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse (CWOCN) for 17 years and has more than 30 years of clinical experience. She is currently responsible for the Wound Care Team at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital, a 391-bed acute care hospital, and Magnet-certified facility, in Richmond, Virginia. Diane currently oversees the wound care team and serves as an educator and wound care clinical resource expert at St. Mary’s. She chairs a multidisciplinary committee focusing on the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and is an active member of the Bon Secours Pressure Ulcer Clinical Transformation Team. Diane serves on the pressure ulcer initiative of the Virginia Health Quality Center (VHQC) and has publically presented and published on the topic. She is also a Six Sigma Green Belt. |
| Irene M. Jankowski, APRN, BC, MSN, CWOCN Former Nurse Scholar-in-Residence
Irene M. Jankowski is an adult nurse practitioner and wound, ostomy, continence specialist at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, where she is responsible for the management of wound, ostomy and continence patient care within the Manhattan Petrie Division and the Brooklyn Kings Highway Division. In her current position, Ms. Jankowski has implemented a comprehensive pressure ulcer prevention and treatment program; provides inpatient consultations and follow-up care with a focus on preparation of patients for efficient and timely discharge from the facility; participates in quality improvement initiatives related to specialty areas, including pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence surveys; has developed outpatient initiatives focused on providing outpatient follow-up for patients with bowel/urinary diversions; and is responsible for educating medical, surgical and nursing staff. Ms. Jankowski also serves as a preceptor for nurse practitioner students at New York University; preceptor for wound, ostomy, continence nurse students at Wicks Educational Associates, and preceptor for graduate wound specialist students at La Salle University. She has presented and co-authored articles on specialty topics such as topical wound management; advanced wound technologies; vacuum-assisted closure; topical treatments with wound infections; ostomy complications; and surface selection for pressure ulcer prevention.
In previous positions, she has served as a wound closure specialist, nurse practitioner for vascular surgery, clinical and nursing instructor, and various staff nurse positions including pediatrics, coronary care and surgical intensive care units, and medical/surgical nursing.
She earned a bachelor’s of nursing from State University of New York, New Paltz, and a master’s degree in nursing from Lehman College of the City, University of New York. Her professional affiliations include Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society. |