viii Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines, Third Edition
Sharon Dudley Brown, PhD, CRNP
Sharon Dudley-Brown currently is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins
University, in the Schools of Nursing & Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. She is
also the co-director of the Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program in Gastro-
enterology & Hepatology at Johns Hopkins. She sees patients and conducts
research on patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Dudley-Brown has held
several academic appointments, both nationally and internationally, and has
worked as a nurse practitioner at several institutions over the past 25 years.
She has published several peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in the fields of
nursing, inflammatory bowel disease, and ulcerative colitis, and she is cur-
rently a member of several editorial boards, including Gastroenterology Nurs-
ing Journal, where she is the online editor. She is a co-editor of a textbook on
translation in evidence-based practice, Translation of Evidence into Nursing
and Health Care published by Springer, just out in a second edition. In addi-
tion, Dudley-Brown is a member of many professional societies, including the
Society of Gastrointestinal Nurses and Associates (SGNA), American Academy
of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the American Gastroenterological Association
(AGA), and the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). Additionally,
she is an active member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
(CCFA), serving on the National Nursing Initiatives Committee, as well as on
her local Medical Advisory Committee.Sue C. Verrillo, DNP, RN, CRRN
Sue C. Verrillo is the nurse manager of the Ortho/Ortho-Spine/Trauma Unit
at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Verrillo is a member of The Johns Hopkins
Hospital EBP Steering Committee and was a guest author for the second edi-
tion of Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Implementation and
Translation. As a certified rehabilitation nurse, she has provided leadership for
nursing staff excellence, for the expansion of the unit, and for maintaining the
unit’s national certification. She has conducted quality improvement outcome
studies on the orthopedic unit on the relationship of inpatient continuous
postoperative vital sign monitoring and failure to rescue. She has published
and presented her work nationally and internationally.