Terry Griffin MS, APN-BC

Terry Griffin, MS, APN-BC, is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, IL. She has worked at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and has held faculty positions at the Graduate College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her clinical experience is in the NICU as a staff nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and most recently, as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner; however, her specialty is patient- and family-centered care.

Terry's area of interest is the relationship among staff, patients, and families. She has published and presented on many nursing topics, including interventions that reduce stress of parents of hospitalized infants and the challenges nurses and families face caring for babies in the NICU. Her research has examined the parental response to prenatal tours of the NICU and safety of parental involvement in the care of hospitalized infants.

Terry is a member of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses and the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, and has given many years of service to the March of Dimes, Chicago Chapter.