Cindy Zellefrow DNP MSEd RN EBP-C

Experience

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  Mount Carmel Health System

  Jan 1985 - Dec 1996

  Staff Nurse

  Critical Care Nurse working in a variety of ICUs; precepted nurses and assisted in opening of Neuro ICU (MCMC), One of three nurses who opened up Mobile ICU (MCMC), BLS (CPR) Instructor, ACLS Instructor

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  Chiller LLC

  Oct 1997 - Jan 2015

  Figure Skating Instructor

  Figure skating instructor with over 30 years experience. Coach groups lessons and private students from 3 to 83 years of age. Freestyle, Synchronized Team, and Moves in the Field experience. Familiar with both ISI and USFSA curriculums. Gold level ISI judge; Assistant Chief Referee at ISI national and international level competitions since 2007.

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  South-Western City Schools

  Jun 2000 - Jun 2015

  School Nurse

  School nurse responsible for 2500 students from special needs preschool through high school. Member of district Flight Team (responds to crises across the district), building Crisis Recovery Teams at Westland HS, Darby Woods Elem and Prairie Lincoln Elem., Columbus Site Coordinator for Christina Smiles Children's Mobile Dental Clinic. Precept nursing students from OSU, Chamberlain, and Mt. Carmel School of NursingI am past Vice President and current co-chair of the Professional Practice (Research and Evidence-based Practice) Committee for the Ohio Association of School Nurses Show less

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  The Ohio State University College of Nursing

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  GTA on an interdisciplinary case management course where my responsibility was to take the face-to-face course and move it online. This course was a collaboration between the Colleges of Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work, Rehabilitation and Allied Health, and Dentistry. I also worked as a GTA for the Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing during the summer of 2015.

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  The Ohio State University College of Nursing

  Jun 2015 - now

  Actively engaged in DNP subcommittee, as well as undergraduate leadership, curriculum development and program evaluation teams. Mentor faculty teaching evidence-based practice across all academic programs and facilitate EBP course development and EBP integration across academic programs at the College of Nursing. Engaged with the RN to BSN Central Ohio Team seamless progression committee. Teach evidence-based practice

  • Director, RN to BSN

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Assistant Professor of Practice

    Jun 2015 - now

  • Assistant Director and Assistant Clinical Faculty Center for Transdiciplinary Evidence-based Practic

    Jun 2015 - Sept 2017
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  Fuld Institue for EBP at The Ohio State University College of Nursing

  Oct 2017 - Sept 2024

  Director, Academic Core - Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice

  As Director of the Academic Core at the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for EBP in Nursing and Healthcare at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, I travel the world, working with clinicians and academicians in nursing and other health sciences to bring EBP to the world. My vision is to make EBP a shared competency across all healthcare professionals by finding a shared definition, language and skill set around EBP. As faculty at OSU, I help support EBP education and those faculty teaching and integrating EBP into their courses across academic programs. I also teach EBP at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Research interests include all aspects of EBP in nursing and healthcare. Show less