Geraldine Maurer

My clinical areas of specialty include maternal/child and perinatal obstetric nursing, and administration. I began my clinical nursing career at Magee Womens Hospital as a staff nurse on the Rooming-In unit. During my nearly 20 years at Magee, I progressed from Staff Nurse through management positions to Director of Inpatient Obstetrics in Patient Care Services. I acquired specialty training for In-patient OB areas, opening the 2700 Unit High Risk Unit in 1986.

While at MWH, I was appointed as adjunct faculty for the University of Pittsburgh and functioned as a clinical instructor on the high risk OB unit for senior students in their specialty course. More recently I worked in maternal/child home health care.

I served as an item writer for the National Certification Corporation (NCC) for NACCOG (now AWHONN – Association Women’s Health Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing) Inpatient Obstetric Certification Examination.

I have published articles on clinical, management/administration and education topics, and my capstone topic evidence based practice.

Evidence Based Practice - published capstone. Facilitated the organization and education, and strategic planning of active hospital based EBP groups, and taught EBP at the master/graduate level. Serve as sentinel reader for reference data base at McMasters University.