Advanced Practice Manager
The Miriam Hospital
Cathy S. Insana, MSN, APRN, CCNS, CNOR, is an advanced practice manager in the surgical services department at The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. She has over 25 years' perioperative nursing experience and has been a perioperative clinical nurse specialist since 2012. Cathy is a member of AORN and is a certified operating room nurse (CNOR). Cathy has been a CNOR item writer and CNOR and CNS-CP test question reviewer for the Competency and Credentialing Institute (CCI). She was a member of the guideline development team that is revised the AWHONN's Perioperative Care of the Pregnant Women- Evidenced-based Clinical Practice Guideline. She has also been a poster presenter at the AORN Global Surgical Conference and won a Clinical Excellence award in 2009 for a poster on Universal Protocol.