Laura
Ransom
May 2024
Laura
Ransom
,
DNP, CRNA
Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing
Bethesda
,
MD
United States
Maj Ransom has a proven record of excellence in teaching. She is not only a recognized clinical educator, but her expertise was integral to completing the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Program’s Self-Study for re-accreditation. Her tireless dedication underscores her unwavering commitment to upholding the highest standards of excellence in nurse anesthesia education and practice.
Clinical Practice:
Maj Ransom led the clinical education of 59 Air Force, Army, and Navy Nurse Anesthesia students at USU through the management of 25 credit hours across 4 clinical courses as course director in the Doctor of Nursing Practice curriculum. She was responsible for 11 officers, 8 primary military clinical sites, and 38 active enrichment sites across the world, providing education to military and nurse anesthesia leaders. She is the course coordinator for all Phase II clinical courses, accumulatively 37 credit hours annually. Maj Ransom is also active faculty in Phase I learning as well through advising, oral boards, simulation, and lecturing. Beyond her leadership in both didactic and clinical courses, Maj Ransom, is active as a clinical CRNA at A.T. Augusta Medical Center devoting, 8 hours per week to the anesthesia department. Her willingness to support the anesthesia department allowed other active duty anesthesia providers leave during holiday breaks, while maintaining the surgical mission of this level 3 trauma center.
Professional Service:
Over the past year, Maj Ransom played a pivotal role in safeguarding the continuity of clinical sites by meticulously overseeing the renewal of 12 training agreements and the initiation of two new agreements. Notably, two of these renewal agreements were vital affiliation contracts whose absence would have jeopardized the graduation prospects of 18 students annually. Her efforts were instrumental in ensuring the seamless progression of current matriculating classes as well as future and the fulfillment of promised critical manning to the services.
Major Ransom's acute awareness of clinical sustainment plans, coupled with her adeptness at securing leadership buy-in, has been transformative. Identifying the persistent threat posed by low operating room throughput and specialty divestitures across multiple Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs), notably in the Air Force Phase II sites, she took initiatives to ensure that leadership was cognizant of the challenges and actively engaged in formulating a strategic plan to explore viable solutions, garnering buy-in at all levels. Her contributions were pivotal in the creation of a 3rd Air Force primary site, highlighting Major Ransom's commitment to maintaining current service needs despite low operating room throughput. Her leadership has positioned the Air Force to effectively navigate challenges and sustain critical medical services across operational fronts. She is continually pursuing and closely following opportunities to reduce cost while optimizing Nurse Anesthesia Resident experiences.
Major Ransom was pivotal in expanding pediatrics at UC Davis. However, as this expansion was underway, the training agreement, which had been sought after for two years, lapsed. Despite the setback, Major Ransom's proactive efforts and strategic collaboration with the University of California Davis Hospital enabled the execution of an agreement that had been in development for nearly two years. Through administrative and legal channels, she ensured an intermediate solution to address the lapse, allowing 7 students to continue their critical pediatric and trauma rotations without straining other sites. This initiative resulted in substantial savings of $60,000 in unanticipated TDY costs while also ensuring accreditation standards were maintained throughout this period.
Scholarly Practice:
Major Ransom is committed to student and faculty scholarship/development. Maj Ransom’s coordination of NURS7805 yields multiple student publications in the International Student Journal of Nurse Anesthesia (ISJNA). ISJNA readership includes 54,000 CRNA members and 7,750 SRNAs across the world. She is a major driver for the dissemination of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). Under the director CDR Suszan, she ensured 5 Nurse Anesthesia EBP projects were disseminated at a state-wide nurse anesthesia conference, exceeding the graduation requirements. These efforts ensured increased knowledge for the larger anesthesia profession and cultivated early inroads to academia and professional development of the students within their new profession.
Maj Ransom has also mentored 3 USU doctoral groups in their evidence-based process improvement projects, with an emphasis on improving patient safety, clinical practice, and care systems to support the Military Health System’s Quadruple Aims: Better Care, Better Health, Readiness, and Lower Cost.
- “Preventing Cross-Contamination between the Patient and Anesthesia Workstation.”
- “Implementing STOP-BANG for Perioperative Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”
- “Implementation of a Bougie-Assisted Cricothyrotomy Training Program.”
Excellence in Teaching
Maj Ransom has a proven record of excellence in teaching. She is not only a recognized clinical educator, but her expertise was integral to completing the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Program’s Self-Study for re-accreditation. As one of three Nurse Anesthesia faculty members, she dedicated more than 200 hours to meticulously, ensure that over 150 standards were not only addressed accurately but also supported by 184 substantiating documents. Her tireless dedication underscores her unwavering commitment to upholding the highest standards of excellence in nurse anesthesia education and practice.
Maj Ransom also has been a driving force behind updating the e-Portfolio system for students. She is leading the trial for the Nurse Anesthesia Program. This update has the potential to decrease costs for the GSN and increase the usability of the portfolio for students upon graduation. Additionally, the new system also decreases faculty work-load through a more efficient system of review.
Maj Ransom led the clinical education of 59 Air Force, Army, and Navy Nurse Anesthesia students at USU through the management of 25 credit hours across 4 clinical courses as course director in the Doctor of Nursing Practice curriculum. She was responsible for 11 officers, 8 primary military clinical sites, and 38 active enrichment sites across the world, providing education to military and nurse anesthesia leaders. She is the course coordinator for all Phase II clinical courses, accumulatively 37 credit hours annually. Maj Ransom is also active faculty in Phase I learning as well through advising, oral boards, simulation, and lecturing. Beyond her leadership in both didactic and clinical courses, Maj Ransom, is active as a clinical CRNA at A.T. Augusta Medical Center devoting, 8 hours per week to the anesthesia department. Her willingness to support the anesthesia department allowed other active duty anesthesia providers leave during holiday breaks, while maintaining the surgical mission of this level 3 trauma center.
Professional Service:
Over the past year, Maj Ransom played a pivotal role in safeguarding the continuity of clinical sites by meticulously overseeing the renewal of 12 training agreements and the initiation of two new agreements. Notably, two of these renewal agreements were vital affiliation contracts whose absence would have jeopardized the graduation prospects of 18 students annually. Her efforts were instrumental in ensuring the seamless progression of current matriculating classes as well as future and the fulfillment of promised critical manning to the services.
Major Ransom's acute awareness of clinical sustainment plans, coupled with her adeptness at securing leadership buy-in, has been transformative. Identifying the persistent threat posed by low operating room throughput and specialty divestitures across multiple Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs), notably in the Air Force Phase II sites, she took initiatives to ensure that leadership was cognizant of the challenges and actively engaged in formulating a strategic plan to explore viable solutions, garnering buy-in at all levels. Her contributions were pivotal in the creation of a 3rd Air Force primary site, highlighting Major Ransom's commitment to maintaining current service needs despite low operating room throughput. Her leadership has positioned the Air Force to effectively navigate challenges and sustain critical medical services across operational fronts. She is continually pursuing and closely following opportunities to reduce cost while optimizing Nurse Anesthesia Resident experiences.
Major Ransom was pivotal in expanding pediatrics at UC Davis. However, as this expansion was underway, the training agreement, which had been sought after for two years, lapsed. Despite the setback, Major Ransom's proactive efforts and strategic collaboration with the University of California Davis Hospital enabled the execution of an agreement that had been in development for nearly two years. Through administrative and legal channels, she ensured an intermediate solution to address the lapse, allowing 7 students to continue their critical pediatric and trauma rotations without straining other sites. This initiative resulted in substantial savings of $60,000 in unanticipated TDY costs while also ensuring accreditation standards were maintained throughout this period.
Scholarly Practice:
Major Ransom is committed to student and faculty scholarship/development. Maj Ransom’s coordination of NURS7805 yields multiple student publications in the International Student Journal of Nurse Anesthesia (ISJNA). ISJNA readership includes 54,000 CRNA members and 7,750 SRNAs across the world. She is a major driver for the dissemination of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). Under the director CDR Suszan, she ensured 5 Nurse Anesthesia EBP projects were disseminated at a state-wide nurse anesthesia conference, exceeding the graduation requirements. These efforts ensured increased knowledge for the larger anesthesia profession and cultivated early inroads to academia and professional development of the students within their new profession.
Maj Ransom has also mentored 3 USU doctoral groups in their evidence-based process improvement projects, with an emphasis on improving patient safety, clinical practice, and care systems to support the Military Health System’s Quadruple Aims: Better Care, Better Health, Readiness, and Lower Cost.
- “Preventing Cross-Contamination between the Patient and Anesthesia Workstation.”
- “Implementing STOP-BANG for Perioperative Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.”
- “Implementation of a Bougie-Assisted Cricothyrotomy Training Program.”
Excellence in Teaching
Maj Ransom has a proven record of excellence in teaching. She is not only a recognized clinical educator, but her expertise was integral to completing the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Program’s Self-Study for re-accreditation. As one of three Nurse Anesthesia faculty members, she dedicated more than 200 hours to meticulously, ensure that over 150 standards were not only addressed accurately but also supported by 184 substantiating documents. Her tireless dedication underscores her unwavering commitment to upholding the highest standards of excellence in nurse anesthesia education and practice.
Maj Ransom also has been a driving force behind updating the e-Portfolio system for students. She is leading the trial for the Nurse Anesthesia Program. This update has the potential to decrease costs for the GSN and increase the usability of the portfolio for students upon graduation. Additionally, the new system also decreases faculty work-load through a more efficient system of review.