Clinical Practice Manager, Operating Room
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Mark Crucero, MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM, CNAMB, NE-BC, NPD-BC, PCCN-K is the Manager of Clinical Practice at Advocate Lutheran General since 2020. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Clinical Manager at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center from 2015-2020. At Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, he started the OR Nurse Residency and created a curriculum for New Graduate RNs in the Operating Room. This program was also implemented at his current site, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.
Other career highlights include working as a Progressive Care Nurse and as a Wound Care and Ostomy Nurse. He has also worked with his team to implement various projects in the Operating Room like the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Program and Specimen Management for Breast Surgery.