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Rebecca Vortman, DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC (she/her/hers)

Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinois Chicago
Franklin, Illinois, United States

Becca Vortman is a Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Department Head, and Director of the Health Systems Leadership DNP Program at the University of Illinois Chicago for the Population Health Nursing Science department and serves as a Perioperative Education Consultant, and Associate Editor for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Novice Nurse Digital Publication, The Stitch.

Becca has nearly fifteen years of experience in perioperative nursing, education, and leadership. She is recognized as an international, national, and regional leader and expert in perioperative nursing and is currently serving a second term as a board member for AORN.

Her policy focus is on workplace safety initiatives and surgical smoke evacuation practices. She has disseminated her scholarly work through publications and presentations at the local, regional, and national levels. She co-led an Illinois-based grassroots coalition to successfully pass a surgical smoke evacuation law in Illinois.

She received a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Illinois Chicago. She is certified as an operating room nurse (CNOR) through the Competency and Credentialing Institute and holds a nurse executive advanced certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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