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Kerstin Hudgins, EdD, CCRN, MSN, (she/her/hers)

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Kerstin Hudgins, Ed.D., MSN, RN CCRN, CEN, FCCM, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW)

Kerstin is a certified critical care nurse (CCRN) and emergency nurse (CEN) with over forty years in global healthcare. She serves as clinical faculty at the School of Nursing at UNCW. Her professional background is well-rounded. A native of Germany, where Kerstin completed her initial training, she came to the United States in 1981 and furthered her education. She obtained an ADN from Regents of the University of the State of New York, her bachelor's and master's degree in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and completed her doctorate in educational leadership (Ed.D.) at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2022. She spent 21 years in acute critical care at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, NC, retired from full-time nursing, and entered academia in 2018. She continues to work part-time in the ICU at Brunswick Medical Center in Bolivia, NC, a constituent of Novant Health. She has been actively involved with SCCM since 2015 when SCCM selected her 30-bed Adult ICU for the 2-year ICU-Liberation Collaborative. Since 2017, Kerstin has been presenting at the Critical Care Congress snapshot theater. Subsequently, she became a Congress abstract reviewer and moderator. She joined SCCM's Research Section Simulation and Education Committee in 2020 and is a former Chair. Kerstin is an active member of various nursing organizations, is well-published and was named one of the Great 100 Nurses of NC in 2016. Kerstin was inducted by the American College of Critical Care Medicine as a Fellow in 2023.

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