Teresa Kuta Reske

Teresa Reske has held numerous professional roles in her career in leading people and processes for improved practice change and in start-up patient care ventures. Her experiences range from acute care pediatric and pediatric critical care, start-up nurse telephone triage program, early adopter role in nursing informatics, leading market research and the roll-out of system-wide HCAHPS patient satisfaction surveys.

Prior to joining the faculty as Associate Professor of the Elms College, she served as pediatric ambulatory administrator merging nine pediatric specialty practices together. She has presented at national and international conferences on topics ranging from nursing informatics, nurse: patient caring interactions, and the patient experience in health care settings.

Her areas of clinical interest further refined through her doctoral work are in contemporary nurse leadership, leading through innovative change, and the role of the nurse in patient care experiences. She was a guest chapter co-author in DNP Education, Practice, and Policy: Redesigning Advanced Practice Roles for the 21st Century (2012).