Brief Bio

Karin Reuter-Rice is Faculty Coordinator for the Neonatal and Pediatric Instructional Area and Lead Faculty in the Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty in the MSN Program. She is a nationally renowned pediatric acute care nurse practitioner and a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Reuter-Rice is co-editor of the first pediatric acute care multidisciplinary text (Pediatric Acute Care: A Guide for Interprofessional Practice, published in July, 2011).

Dr. Reuter-Rice came to DUSON from Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA, where she practiced in a tertiary care pediatric ICU. She holds a diploma in nursing from the University of Alberta Hospital School of Nursing in Canada. She earned her BSN, MSN (with specialization as a Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner), and the PhD in Nursing from the University of San Diego. The findings from her dissertation research on psychosocial responses by adolescent male victims to peer bullying are potentially applicable to the development of interventions to identify high school students at risk for victimization and school violence.

Dr. Reuter-Rice has been a reviewer for national practice documents such as the AACN National Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Entry-Level Competencies in Graduate Education. She is the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board member on the task force revising national nurse practitioner curricular guidelines as part of the 2011 NONPF Task Force Criteria initiative. She serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and currently co-edits the Case Studies/Acute and Subspecialty section for the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. Dr. Reuter-Rice chairs the Acute Care Special Interest Group of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). She also served as Acute Care PNP Member-at-Large, Executive Committee member, and Secretary of the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, and continues to represent NAPNAP as the Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner representative to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing LACE Network.

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Professional Certifications

Research Interests

Awards and Honors

• 2011 Fellow, American College of Critical Care Medicine

• 2010 Acute Care SIG Scholar of the Year, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

• 2009 Nurse Practitioner of Excellence, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego

• 2006 Award for Excellence in Nursing; Clinical Practice, Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Zeta Mu Chapter

• 1991 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau International

Areas of Expertise

• Acute / Critical Care
• Pediatric Nursing

Areas of Interest

• pediatric acute and critical care
• bullying and school violence
• adolescent behavior

Representative Publications

• 2012 -- Reuter-Rice, K., Bolick, B. (Eds.) Pediatric Acute Care: A Guide for Interprofessional Practice. 2012; Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• 2012 -- Pubmed # 22177059 Bolick, B. N., Haut, C., Reuter-Rice, K., Leflore, J., McComiskey, C. A., Mikhailov, T. A., Cavender, J. D., Creaden, J. A., McLeod, R., Verger, J. The acute care pediatric nurse practitioner: curriculum overview. J Pediatr Health Care. May, 2012; 26(3); 231-7

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 21975498 Reuter-Rice, K., Duthie, S., Hamrick, J. Neurogenic pulmonary edema associated with pediatric status epilepticus. Pediatr Emerg Care. October, 2011; 27(10); 957-8

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 20091024 O'Brien, N. F., Reuter-Rice, K. E., Khanna, S., Peterson, B. M., Quinto, K. B. Vasospasm in children with traumatic brain injury. Intensive Care Med. April 1, 2010; 36(4); 680-7 PMCID: PMC2837183

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 18590872 Reuter-Rice, K. Bites that bleed: crotalid envenomation. J Pediatr Health Care. January, 2010; 22(4); 258-61

• 2009 -- Pubmed # 19103406 Reuter-Rice, K. Ecstasy in the emergency department: MDMA ingestion. J Pediatr Health Care. September 3, 2009; 23(1); 49-53

• 2008 -- Pubmed # 19114465 Reuter-Rice, K. Male adolescent bullying and the school shooter. J Sch Nurs. December 1, 2008; 24(6); 350-9

• 2006 -- Reuter-Rice, K. Approach to interpreting a pediatric chest radiograph. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. 2006 Jul-Sep; 28(3); 175-187

Grant Funding (selected)

• Measuring Vasospasm, Biomarkers, and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury  
  DUSON Small Grant Program
  06/2011-05/2012
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Project Goal: feasibility pilot study, dissemination of data – vascular flow as it relates to biomarkers, and neurocognitive outcomes.

• Intraosseous Placement as a Predictor of Disposition to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit  
  Rady Children’s Pediatric Transport Data Base
  04/2009-03/2011
  Role: co-PI
  Project Goal: Dissemination of data – First responders and transport community.

• Vasospasm in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury  
  Rady Children’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (San Diego, CA)
  07/2007-06/2009
  Role: Sub-Principal Investigator
  Project Goal: Determine vasospasm in pediatric TBI; dissemination of data to the critical care community

• Psychosocial Responses by 9th & 10th Grade Male Students to Peer Victimization  
  Southern California High School District/Schools
  07/2004-06/2006
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Project Goal: Identify frequency of and response to victimization; dissemination of data to education and health care community