President
Healthcare Resources
Joanne is the 2022 Jerry G. Peers Distinguished Service Award recipient. She graduated from the University of Texas School of Nursing in Galveston, Texas. She completed her MBA in Healthcare Management through Western Governors University in 2024.
Active in AORN for over 60 years, Joanne has contributed on every level of the local, state, national, and international perioperative organizations. She has been an officer, chair, or committee member every year of her professional career. She wrote the first AORN administrative standards that have evolved over the years to be part of the recommended practices. Her work in the technology field included developing the first perioperative computerized nursing record and, later, the expansion of the current PNDS protocol. Her untiring devotion to protecting the perioperative nurse and patient at the legislative level keeps us all involved and up to date. She was one of the team leaders who established the current legislative principles used by National AORN. She created and led the National State Council Leadership Committee for several years, resulting in the first State Council Leadership Award for AORN. She is published and has spoken on many issues involving perioperative nursing.
As part of her career, she has always attempted to assist and mentor new nurses to develop themselves to be part of the very proud profession of perioperative registered nurses.