Joan Pirrung, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, named Musculoskeletal Service Line nursing leader

Joan Pirrung, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, manager of the Christiana Care Trauma Program, has been named nursing leader of Christiana Care’s Musculoskeletal Service Line. Pirrung also will represent Musculoskeletal as part of the service line nursing cohort.

A key leader in developing and advancing trauma services, she has numerous professional accomplishments, including several successful American College of Surgeons visits which have led to the reverification and redesignation of Christiana Care as an ACS Level 1 Trauma Center.

Pirrung has been Christiana Care Trauma Program manager for 13 years and a trauma nurse for 22 years. She is board certified as an adult clinical nurse specialist and serves as president-elect of the Society of Trauma Nurses, due to take over as president in spring 2016.