staff nurse
Houston Methodist West Hospital
Katherine Hayes, BSN, RN, CNOR currently works at Houston Methodist West Hospital in the main OR as a staff nurse. She began as a middle school teacher before transitioning to a career in healthcare. After nearly a decade in the OR - first as a surgical technologist and then as a nurse - she is able to combine her love for teaching and the OR by helping the Graduate Nurse Program at Houston Methodist by teaching the new nurses how to scrub. Katherine was awarded Houston Methodist West's Outstanding Nurse Clinician in 2024 and the Good Samaritan bronze award for Nursing Excellence in 2022. She presented a poster at the 2022 AORN Global Conference and Expo, as well as published in The Surgical Technologist in 2016. Katherine is currently the vice president of the AORN West Houston Chapter 4436. She lives in Katy, TX with her husband and four children.