Clinical Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Kerstin Hudgins, Ed.D., MSN, RN CCRN, CEN, FCCM
is a certified critical care and emergency nurse (CCRN & CEN) and a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) with over forty years in global healthcare. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. 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, she has presented at the snapshot theater at SCCM's 48th Critical Care Congress and subsequently became an abstract reviewer and moderator for SCCM's critical care congresses. She joined SCCM's Research Section Simulation and Education Committee in 2020 and is currently 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.