Membership Updates

INS is pleased to recognize the following individuals for their recent accomplishments, awards, and promotions.

Do you have an accomplishment, award, and/or promotion you’d like to share?

If so, please email rachel.king@ins1.org.

Karin Cierzan, RN, CGRN, CRNI®, a staff RN in endoscopy and infusion therapy at MNGI Digestive Health, spoke at the INS 2023 Annual Meeting in Boston in April on infusion therapy in the GI setting.

Rodney GB Clements, BSN, RN, CRNI®, CEO, founded RN Enterprises Infusion Services, Inc., the fastest growing, most experienced team of infusion nurses in the country.

Nerissa Mackie, BSN, RN, CRNI®, was recently promoted to assistant nurse manager in a medical/surgical/oncology unit in the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System. She is in a master’s degree in health leadership program at Western Governors University with an expected graduation in June 2023. She is a current member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, and was a recent 2022 Bay Pines Nursing Excellence Secretary Award Winner.

Karen Nichols, BSN, RN, CRNI®, who works at OptionCare Health, was a Hope Award recipient.

Tiffany Putnam-Northrup, RN, VA-BC, who works on the vascular access team at the Wilson Medical Center, just obtained her VA-BC and was nominated for the Daisy Award.

Lisa Walker, RN, CRNI®, IgCN, the director of nursing at Thrivewell Infusion, has implemented INS Standards competency of all registered nurses and nurse practitioners, was awarded a scholarship to IGNS 2022, and successfully passed her IgCN specialty certifying exam.

Renae Wedlake, CRNI®, was awarded the United Way Philanthropist of the Year Award 2021 for founding All Heart Infusion, a nonprofit infusion nursing organization that wants all patients to be cared for equally regardless of ability to pay. As of December 2022, the nonprofit has provided $600,000 in free care to patients in the Pacific Northwest who are underinsured, have no insurance, or insurance does not cover the nursing care.