Dr. Prusinski holds a BSN from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an MSN in Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Duke University, a post-master’s certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from Otterbein University and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) from The Ohio State University. Dr. Prusinski has been a nurse for over 20 years with clinical practice in pediatrics and adult congenital health care. She has been a nursing professor since obtaining a DNP in 2013 from OSU, teaching at all levels within the nursing program at Otterbein university with a focus on critical care, pediatrics and family health. She is the Graduate Nursing Director and FNP Director for Otterbein University Department of Nursing. She has been a clinical practitioner at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the Heart Center since 2007. She was the co-writer for the successful Nurse Education Grant Program provided by the Ohio Board of Nursing from 2021 to 2023. She was awarded the Heart Center travel award in 2022 and the Otterbein Summer Writing Award in 2023. She is a member of the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), a charter member of both the Beta Epsilon and Kappa Lambda Chapters of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and a peer reviewer for both Open RN texts and the CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing Journal.