{"id":145332,"date":"2025-02-25T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=145332"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:33:24","slug":"ucf-college-of-nursing-dean-receives-prestigious-master-of-critical-care-medicine-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-college-of-nursing-dean-receives-prestigious-master-of-critical-care-medicine-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF College of Nursing Dean Receives Prestigious Master of Critical Care Medicine Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou Sole, dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/nursing\/\">UCF\u2019s College of Nursing<\/a>, is among five healthcare professionals worldwide \u2014 and only two nursing professionals \u2014 to receive the Master of Critical Care Medicine designation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine. The honorees were recognized in a ceremony during the 2025 Critical Care Congress held in Orlando on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Society of Critical Care Medicine is the largest nonprofit medical organization dedicated to promoting excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care with members in more than 80 countries representing all professional components of the critical care team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145334\" style=\"max-width: 276px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\" class=\"figure-img  wp-image-145334 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony.png\" alt=\"three people wearing commencement regalia and standing on stage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony.png 575w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-512x512.png 512w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\" class=\"figure-img  wp-image-145334 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20575%20575%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"three people wearing commencement regalia and standing on stage\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20575%20575%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony.png 575w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-512x512.png 512w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony-360x360.png 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-MCCM-Ceremony.png\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">UCF College of Nursing Dean Mary Lou Sole at the 2025 Critical Care Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Society\u2019s Master of Critical Care Medicine designation is awarded to individuals who have achieved global prominence in the field of critical care through exemplary leadership, eminence in clinical practice, and outstanding contributions to research and education. The designation is awarded to long-standing fellows of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Sole was inducted as a fellow in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Sole\u2019s contributions to the field are nothing short of extraordinary,\u201d says John Whitcomb, chief academic nursing officer at Clemson University School of Nursing, in his nomination letter. \u201cHer unparalleled leadership, clinical excellence, and commitment to education and research have set a benchmark in critical care medicine and nursing that few can match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.ucf.edu\/people\/mary-lou-sole\/\">Sole<\/a> began her nursing career nearly five decades ago in critical care, and that bedside experience inspired her research as she advanced her career. Today Sole is an internationally renowned critical care researcher with more than $4 million in research grant funding and 110 peer-reviewed publications. Her scholarly activities, which have focused on preventing complications for critically ill patients on a ventilator, have influenced the standard of care in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145335\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;\" class=\"figure mx-auto d-block\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img size-full wp-image-145335 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab.jpg\" alt=\"Three people wearing face guards and working with a manikin\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img size-full wp-image-145335 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Three people wearing face guards and working with a manikin\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2025\/02\/Sole-Students-Lab.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">UCF College of Nursing Dean Mary Lou Sole working in a lab with students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a nurse educator for more than 40 years \u2014 with 34 at UCF \u2014 she has made significant contributions to critical care nursing education and has inspired and mentored countless future critical care nurses. She was the lead editor of the textbook, <em>Introduction to Critical Care Nursing<\/em>, which was selected as book of the year twice by the <em>American Journal of Nursing<\/em>. The textbook is now in its ninth edition and has been renamed to <em>Sole\u2019s Introduction to Critical Care Nursing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At UCF, she has advised more than 80 doctoral, graduate and undergraduate student research projects most of which have focused on acute and critical care nursing. One of the most recent students was <strong>Kimberly Emery Rathbun \u201917BSN \u201922PhD<\/strong>, UCF College of Nursing\u2019s first B.S.N. to Ph.D. graduate.<\/p>\n<p>An active member of the critical care community, Sole has served on three editorial boards, expert panels of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Quality Forum task forces and chaired a study section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review.<\/p>\n<p>In Central Florida, Sole held various roles at Orlando Health for more than three decades, including clinical nurse specialist and nurse scientist. Currently, she serves as the Orlando Health Endowed Chair in Nursing at UCF\u2019s College of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, Sole has been honored for her commitment to excellence in nursing education, research and practice including Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, and UCF Pegasus Professor. Sole has been at UCF since 1991 and led the College of Nursing for the last decade as dean. Last fall, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-college-of-nursing-dean-mary-lou-sole-to-retire\/\">announced her retirement<\/a> effective Summer 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou Sole, who has dedicated four decades of clinical practice and research to improving outcomes for critically ill patients, is among five critical care experts worldwide to be honored by the Society of Critical Care 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