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Sandra M. Ouellette

Sandra M. Ouellette CRNA, MEd, DSc (Hon), FAAN

Nurse anesthesia
Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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Ms. Sandra M. Ouellette completed nursing education at Watts Hospital Nursing School and anesthesia education at North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bowman Gray School of Medicine. She obtained a BS Degree in Biology from Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, and completed her Master’s in Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Wake Forest University in 2019.

Her national (AANA) professional responsibilities have included the following: Item Review Committee, Council on Certification; On-Site Visitor for Programs of Anesthesia, Council on Accreditation; and educational representative, Council on Recertification. She served on the ASA/AANA Liaison Committee and the Nominating Committee of the AANA. She served as Regional Director, Vice President, and President-Elect of the AANA and was President of the AANA from 1988-1989. She co-chaired the AANA Doctoral Task Force representing CE vendors and later the AANA Descriptor Task Force. She also represented AANA as an affiliate member of ANA’s Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics. She was appointed to the ICN Expert Panel on Nursing Leadership in 2006, nominated by ANA. Ms. Ouellette has been active in the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists and Chaired its Education Committee for 14 years, Chaired the Practice Committee later and served three terms as IFNA President.

Ms. Ouellette has lectured extensively at both the national and international levels. She has presented at over 874 meetings in 40 states and has 96 publications to her credit including 12 chapters and 2 books. She received the Achievement Award from the North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists in 1994. In 1995 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. In 1996 she received the Dannemiller Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology. She received the AANA Program Director of the year award in 1997 and the AANA 24th Agatha Hodgins Award for outstanding accomplishments in 1998. She received the IFNA Hermi Lohnert Award in June 2010 for outstanding contributions to the international nurse anesthesia community and in 2012 she received the AANA Helen Lamb Award for outstanding contributions in nurse anesthesia education. In 2018 she received the AANA Didactic Instructor of the Year Award.
 
She continues to teach at the nurse anesthesia programs at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and a Wake Forest-sponsored reentry program for nurse anesthetists who have been out of practice.

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