Kari Guffey, APRN, DNP, CPNP-AC/PC, CPNP-PC, CNE

Education:
DNP Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
MSN Texas Woman's University, Dallas, Texas
BSN Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

Work and Education:
Dr. Kari Guffey is the co-coordinator for the DNP PNP track at Baylor LHSON and is thrilled to work with the dual track students focused on acute care. She joined Baylor five years ago and continues to work in the DFW metroplex at local Children’s Hospitals. She has an extensive history of caring for acutely ill children in the Pediatric ICU as well as Neurosurgery specialty. She focuses her research on pediatric obesity, global health initiatives, and critical illness in children. She has a special interest in head injuries in children. She teaches the acute care didactic courses as well as Pediatric Genomics and clinical/project courses. 

Dr. Guffey has spoken at conferences surrounding critical illness and management in children as well as global health initiatives. She has presented posters surrounding acute care PNP education and head injuries in the pediatric population. She thoroughly enjoys engaging with students in order to create a professional learning environment for future PNP’s.

Committees:
Dr Guffey is the chair of the Missions committee and continues to work to advance LHSON in global health initiatives. She also serves on the graduate studies, DNP project and statewide acute care PNP committees as well as work with SCCM and NapNap.

Articles and Presentations:
Dr. Guffey continues to work within groups focused on pediatric obesity recognition as well as acute care of critically ill children. She continues her work and presentations surrounding pediatric head injuries and is focused on ongoing education initiatives regarding pediatric acute care advanced practice. She has presented at multiple pediatric conferences and teaches at Cook Children's. Dr. Guffey also works with the patient education committee at Cook Children's to publish education regarding specific neurosurgical diagnoses.

Community:
Dr. Guffey loves mission trips. She has had the pleasure of joining the congenital heart surgery team in Guyana and Dominican Republic. Her most loved trip was in 2018 when she was accompanied by her daughter serving the children in Guyana. Dr. Guffey resides in Dallas and  has two daughters who are the loves of her life. Both are pursuing their college degrees. Her oldest daughter is almost done with nursing school.