Ms. Braun is a results-driven CNO with more than 25 years of progressive leadership experience across acute care hospitals, academic medical centers and community health systems. She is passionate about elevating nursing practice, driving strategic innovation, and fostering cultures of safety, compassion and excellence. Throughout her journey, she has led initiatives that improved patient outcomes, reduced hospital-acquired infections, and enhanced nurse engagement and retention. She spearheaded multi-year nursing strategic plans, integrated Magnet principles to achieve nursing excellence and led systemwide staffing redesigns to optimize care delivery. Ms. Braun designed targeted recruitment campaigns that led to decreased nursing vacancy and turnover by 30%. She continues to develop and promote clinical ladder programs and leadership academies, empowering nurses to advance their careers and contribute to shared governance. Ms. Braun’s leadership of infection prevention task forces resulted in achieving double-digit reductions in central line-associated bloodstream infection and catheter associated urinary tract infection rates.
