PACU Nursing Minutes

Entrepreneur, Educator, Author, Creator, and lifelong Nurse, Cathy has been active in healthcare for over 3 decades! To date Nurse Cathy has helped 131 RN's obtain CAPA® or CPAN® certification in Perioperative Nursing! "Nurses ARE My WHY!" Her bedside clinical experience is vast, encompassing trauma level 1 critical care specialties such as: MICU, CCU, SICU, Neuro ICU, Interventional Radiology (Body & Neuro IR), and clinical educator West coast region for the Arctic Sun™ focusing on Targeted Temperature Management (TTM). In 2016 she transitioned into Perianesthesia Nursing, Phase I PACU in Bend, Oregon. In the Fall of 2019 she passed the Certified Post Anesthesia Nurse exam, (CPAN®) and re-certified via re-examination in 2023, and most recently in 2025 re-certified via contact hours. She has worked in multiple West coast perioperative/perianesthesia departments and discovered a systemic need for specialty education. This led her to create PACU Nursing Minutes (PNM) YouTube channel in September of 2020. Viewer and subscriber growth has been consistent, this growth grew into PACU Nursing Minutes LLC, fulfilling Cathy's dream to be a full-time perianesthesia educator! She is now a full time nurse entrepreneur, educator, certification coach and content creator thus contributing and giving back to her fellow Nursing tribe! The PNM channel grew into a nurse entrepreneur business, achieving licensing & accreditation in May of 2021. The Mission statement of PACU Nursing Minutes LLC states; "To provide evidence-based perianesthesia education that equips and empowers nurses with knowledge to care for patients in all phases of care. Education that enhances and changes practice based on evidence. Education that improves patient outcomes through excellence in care and creates strong healthcare teams." "I look forward to teaching the next generation of Nurses." Nurse Cathy began working in healthcare at 15 years old as a CNA, LPN at 17, and BSN at 21 class of 2000, Neumann University, Aston, PA. Nurse Cathy was recently part of launching a new ASC in the Pacific Northwest, WA State., working in all phases of care. She maintains current certification of ACLS, PALS, and CPAN. She is an alumnus CCRN® and member of AACN ®, APSA®, AORN®, ANA®, ASPAN® and NPANA®.