About

Mission Statement

To enhance and promote the unique and multifaceted contribution of the Clinical Nurse Specialist to population health from wellness to acute care; to advance the practice of nursing; and to improve the effectiveness of healthcare systems.

Our Goal

To address topics impacting the advance practice of the CNS to increase visibility of CNSs through participation on appropriate state and local committees to act as a resource group and provide continuing education programs for the CNS to support the coalition of advanced practice groups, such as CNSs, ARNPs, CRNAs and CNMs.

Our Logo

  • Circles: represent the three spheres of CNS practice and impact – the patient, nurses and nursing practice and systems/ organization.
  • The Lamp: a symbol of the care and devotion the nurse administers to the sick and injured in the practice of Nursing.
  • Color of Blue: the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
  • Dark Blue: represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
  • Light Blue: is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.

2024 OACNS Board of Directors

Officers:

  • President – Kacy Aderhold
  • Immediate Past President - Karen Genzel
  • President-Elect – Brandy Burgess
  • Treasurer – Stacie Hanes
  • Secretary – Stephanie Moore

Committee Chairs:

  • Director-at-Large for Continuing Education Committee – Erica Melick and Brittni Kline
  • Director-at-Large for Membership – Tammy Hanks
  • Directors-at-Large for Public Relations – Beth Pitman
  • Director-at-Large for Nominations – Chris Mumford
  • Director-at-Large Legislation – Rhonda Coleman

Unofficial Board:

  • Student Representative – DJ Hawkins
  • Student Representative – Georgie Stoops

Kacy Aderhold, DNP, APRN-CNS, BC-ADM, CDCES

President

Kacy Aderhold specializes in diabetes and metabolism in her practice role in adult endocrinology at Harold Hamm Diabetes Center in Oklahoma City. Kacy is board certified in advanced diabetes management and is a certified diabetes care and education specialist. Kacy is passionate about patient education and utilizing pharmacotherapy and technology to improve outcomes and reduce…

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Brandy Burgess, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG

President-Elect

Brandy Burgess, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG, is an advanced practice registered nurse clinical nurse specialist specializing in critical care and pulmonology. She has over 25 years of patient care in many different areas of nursing, including academia, critical care, long-term acute care, and as a respiratory care educator, with the majority of her career spent in…

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Karen A. Genzel, DNP, APRN, ACCNS-P, CPEN

Immediate Past President

Karen is a Pediatric Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist, APRN at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health and Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing. She is a BSN alumna of the Jacksonville University and went on to earn her Master of Science as an…

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Stacie Hanes, APRN-CNS

Treasurer

Stacie Hanes is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). She specializes in cardiology. Stacie graduated with her Associate Degree in Nursing from Oklahoma City Community College in 1995, then with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from The University of Oklahoma (OU) Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing in 2002….

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Stephanie R Moore, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC

Secretary

Stephanie is an Nephrology CNS at Nephrology Specialists of Tulsa. She joined the staff in June of 2021 after being with Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa for 10 years. She is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She earned a Doctor of Nursing practice from Oklahoma City University, a Master of Science…

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Rhonda Coleman-Jackson, DNP, APRN-CNS

Director-at-Large Legislation

Rhonda Coleman-Jackson is a DNP prepared advanced practice nurse, as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Neurology at OUHSC. She sees both migraine and dementia patients in the OU Physicians Neurology clinic. Rhonda obtained her BSN at the University of Central Oklahoma, in Edmond in 1983, MS in the acute care…

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Chris Mumford, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, MEDSURG-BC

Director-at-Large Nominations

Chris Mumford is a clinical nurse specialist practicing at Nephrology Specialists of Tulsa. He graduated in 2023 from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center with a masters degree of science in nursing. During his graduate studies he was a student representative for OACNS and a member of the Masters and Doctoral Student Nurse Association….

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Tammy Hanks, DNP, APRN, PCNS-BC, NEA-BC, CNOR

Director-at-Large Membership

Tammy Hanks is an executive nurse leader, advanced practice registered nurse, pediatric clinical nurse specialist, and perioperative specialist. She is currently the perioperative practice specialist for the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Tammy obtained her BSN from Oklahoma City University, MSN from Texas Christian University, and DNP in nursing leadership at the Fran and…

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Erica Melick, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG

Director-at-Large Continuing Education

Erica Melick, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG is an advanced practice registered nurse who specializes in cardiology and provides care in the Heart Failure Clinic at OU Health Physicians in Oklahoma City. She has spent the majority of her career working with cardiology patients, including specifically, interventional cardiology, structural heart, electrophysiology and heart failure Erica earned a…

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Brittni Meyer, MSN, APRN-CNS

Director-at-Large Continuing Education

Brittni is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health System who has a broad range of specialty care experience that includes cardiology, nephrology, neurology, sleep medicine, and pulmonology. Her passion and main role at the VA has been in pulmonology. She was drawn to pulmonology after watching her cousin live and suffer…

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Beth Pitman, MSN, APRN-CNS, CNE

Director-at-Large Public Relations

Beth Pitman is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist (APRN-CNS) with 13 years of experience in acute and critical care settings. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (OUHSC) and the supervising provider at the John W….

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