Angela Craig, MS, APN, CCNS, CCRN, currently works as a full time Medical Science Liaison for Baxter. She focuses on the evidence and best practices for fluid management. She has maintained her PRN status at Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) where she was the Clinical Nurse Specialist of the ICU for 16 years.  She has been a Clinical nurse specialist for over 25 years.  She also chaired her hospital’s sepsis team and led her hospital to be the first sepsis disease specific certified hospital in the state of Tennessee. Angela is also a Sepsis Alliance Advisory Board Member. She has a passion for making outcomes for sepsis and all patients a priority. She has worked with area nursing homes/long term care facilities/Home health care and EMS to increase early identification of potential infections and how to best treat. She has spoken at the local, state and national level on the topics of sepsis and hemodynamics. She has consulted for multiple companies with various critical care products.

Angela recently published in December 2023 in AACN Journal of Advanced Critical Care “Advanced Variables to Optimize Hemodynamic Monitoring” and is a contributing author for the book Critical Care Nursing Certification Review which was published in April 2024.  

She also is a contributing editor to the 8^th edition of the Critical Care Nursing Certification Review CCRN Prep and Practice Exams book for the chapters: Sepsis and Multiorgan Syndrome, Toxic emergencies, and airway Obstruction Copyright 2024. 

Prior to CRMC, she was faculty for Lansing Community College, Lansing Michigan in their nursing program for 5 years. She also worked per diem as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing Michigan. Prior to this, she worked at South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Illinois as a clinical nurse specialist for 2 telemetry units and chaired the heart failure program there. When she started as a nurse over 30 years ago, she worked bedside in the intensive Care Unit at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee Illinois.