Daria Ruffolo
DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, CCRN
Medicine
Trauma, Critical Care Medicine
Maywood, Illinois, United States
Clinical Assistant Professor, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Daria Ruffolo spent nearly 20 years as a bedside nurse in the surgical/trauma intensive care venue before taking on the role as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, with the Anesthesia/Critical care team at a busy urban medical center. Daria is certified in both critical care and trauma. She is also credentialed as a certified specialist in adult care. In her role as an ACNP, she does critical care evaluation, pre-operative assessment, and risk stratification for the operative patient population.
Prior to this role, she served as the ACNP to the trauma/surgical critical care team for 12 years. She has adjunct appointments in two collegiate nursing programs, has spoken at over 200 national conferences, and published on the topics of trauma/critical care. Daria has served as a nurse missionary in areas such as the outback of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, South Africa and Ecuador.