Stuff about me.

My name is Katherine Rosselot (Ros-sel-o). My husband loves to tell people that our name is pronounced like Perot with no money. I was raised in the San Antonio area with four siblings. My father was a physicist and my mother was a LVN. Education and academic achievement were the biggest priorities growing up. My father worked for the National Security Agency as a civilian at Kelly AFB. He loved his demanding job and involvement with very significant governmental agencies. He died in May 2007 and I can honestly say that I didn’t realize just how much I am my father’s daughter until now.

I waited to get married until I was 42. This past summer was our eighth anniversary. My husband is a pilot for AA. We both love to scuba dive and snow skiing (or, at least, we did a lot of those two things prior to children). I’m a former classical musician and once had a hobby of sewing and glass painting; don't know that my hobbies will every return.

My two children are miracles of medical science guided by the hands of God. Renee is six (first grade this fall) and Gene is four. They are both in-vitro fertilization babies. A very long story and I could write pages of medical reasons why they should not be here. They are healthy, normal kids and my inspirations for furthering my education and my reasons for wanting to hopefully inspire nursing students to be willing to step out of the comfort zones to protect the nursing professions’ rights as well as nursing’s rights to be involved in the continuous reshaping of healthcare.

My clinical expertise is anything related to Surgical Services, including endoscopies, pain management, and supply chain. I started out as an Operating Room Tech which got me through nursing school. Being an OR nurse got me through my Master’s in Healthcare Administration. I have been an ASC administrator and am currently an AORN Certified Ambulatory Surgery Administrator. I am a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality and a certified paralegal. The other half of my career has been in Quality, Risk, and Case Management for hospitals, managed care organizations, and 3 healthcare software companies. I have extensive experience in corporate training program development, client training, and software technical manual writing.
Amazingly, this morning I was offered the position of OR Educator for a large Dallas inpatient hospital; 23 ORs and over 100 FTEs. Just have to go through all the other stuff now.

I’ve taken numerous online courses and primarily get all of my continuing education through online programs. I prefer online courses. With my little ones, I have the flexibility. I do most of my writing and assignments after they’ve gone to bed. I seem to be able to focus better because I feel that I have more time to devote to “marinating” ideas and thoughts. I do think that online courses are harder for both the student and the professor but both benefit more from the format. My pet peeve with online; students who are only willing to agree with other students and must constantly receive the "warm fuzzy" replies.

I have many professional interests. My professional passions are nursing education, informatics (especially electronic medical records and the Internet), and healthcare policy. The electronic medical record is and will continue to be one of the most under-estimated tools in healthcare. There are other healthcare policies and laws that are desperately needed; without involvement of healthcare professionals now, I fear that we face the risk of never being able to affect real change in the future and healthcare will in essence become a “dictatorship”, controlled by non-healthcare professionals. I have somewhat unique goals. I want to teach at a collegiate level but also want to become more involved in the “politics” of healthcare. For whatever reason, a lobbyist with a PhD can usually get a few extra doors opened. Who knows what the future holds.