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Alicia Kleinhans is a full-time Medical Educator at the Barbara Gessner College of Nursing, University of Houston. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Vanderbilt University (2021) and has over two decades of clinical expertise in pediatric critical care.
- Clinical Specialization: Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Cardiac ICU
- Education: DNP (Vanderbilt, 2021), Post-Master Certificate (PNP-AC) (Vanderbilt, 2019), MSN (Georgetown, 2015), BSN (University of Central Florida, 2000)
Research Focus: She specializes in pediatric sedation, pain management, and complementary medicine applications in critical care settings. Her work addresses protocol standardization for pain control in PICUs and biomarker interpretation post-cardiac surgery.
Scientific Contributions: Her 2023 publication on pain protocols and 2021 study on inflammatory markers after congenital heart surgery demonstrate focus on clinical decision-making in pediatric critical care. Earlier work (2000) explored family adaptation to pediatric cancer care.
Professional Recognition: A member of two honor societies (Sigma Theta Tau and Phi Kappa Phi), she has served as program co-chair for the Houston Area Chapter of NAPNAP since 2022 and contributed to Texas Children's Hospital conferences as invited speaker.
