Carmen J. Petrin MS, RN, APRN, FNP-BC

Carmen J. Petrin, she combines caring for patients with teaching her considerable skills and knowledge to others. As a nurse practitioner, she works with cardiologists at the New England Heart and Vascular Institute, managing the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. When wearing her teaching hat, she’s a clinical education specialist at Catholic Medical Center where she has taught programs on cardiovascular nursing. As an American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor.

She has taught courses to healthcare providers who care for victims of cardiac arrest and cardiovascular emergencies. he started her career as a staff nurse, eventually becoming an instructor at a nursing school, but she says her career really began when she became a critical care educator and ACLS Instructor in 1982. A few years later, in 1986, she was a part of the team that designed and implemented the institute’s successful cardiothoracic surgical program. It was in 2005 that she became a nurse practitioner.