Katie Walker, DNP, APRN-CNS, CCNS

Katie Walker is an Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist with more than 30 years of healthcare experience. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Langston University in 1997 and began her nursing career in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. She later worked as an Advanced Practice Provider for a cardiology group in Tulsa. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing as an Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist from the University of Oklahoma in 2005 and completed a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Missouri State University in 2018.

Her professional work has included clinical practice and systems-level leadership, with an emphasis on protocol and policy development across critical care units and hospital systems. She has been actively involved in research and evidence-based practice, serving as chair of a Research and EBP Council, and mentoring graduate and post-graduate students. Her doctoral project focused on the implementation of the ABCDEF Bundle to improve ICU outcomes through structured interdisciplinary rounds. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center faculty in 2022, she served as Director of Clinical Education at an acute care hospital in Tulsa, supporting RN orientation and development of a transition-to-practice residency program.

She is a newly appointed board member of the Oklahoma Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists and serves on the board of a local Oklahoma Nurses Association chapter. In her free time, Katie enjoys spending time with her family, performing with the SOMA Wind Ensemble in Tulsa as a French horn player, and tending to her small farm.