MSN, APRN, RNFA, FNP-C, AG/ACNP-BC
Current evidence into care you can deliver on Monday.
Kelly Stowell owns AretoHealth and is a nurse practitioner with 30 years at the bedside. Her practice has covered emergency medicine, trauma surgery, orthopedics, urgent care and primary care. She wrote the care protocols for a new geriatric trauma service and helped write a hospital's opioid prescribing guidelines. Kelly holds dual nurse practitioner board certification and an MS in Technical Communication, and she is licensed in Texas and Washington.
Through AretoHealth Education, we write continuing medical education for accredited CME providers, medical education companies, specialty societies and health systems.
Our subject areas are acute care surgery, orthopedics, primary care, internal medicine, wound care and lifestyle medicine.
We are also developing our own continuing education courses and study products for clinicians, and through AretoHealth Clinical Tools we are building clinical decision support and literature review software for medical practices.
We do not accept drug or device manufacturers as clients, and we provide no patient care.
A physician-reviewed consumer article tells readers they have 7 days to start treatment, but outcomes are best when treatment starts within 3 days. The review ranks each finding by the harm it could cause and rewrites the two passages most likely to hurt a reader, and the marked-up excerpt shows those edits as tracked changes.
A two-page handout for newly diagnosed patients. It starts with when to take the medicine and how to protect the eye. Hearing and recovery come next, and the last section tells patients when to call 911.
A 77-year-old man falls at his assisted living facility and is admitted for presumed syncope, and six hours later he develops stridor and is intubated. The report traces how the cervical fracture was missed and recommends four practice changes. The case is a composite of several similar patients.
Ultrasound guidance clearly helps at the internal jugular vein, where a Cochrane review of 35 trials found 71% fewer complications. At the subclavian and femoral veins the gains are smaller and the trials weaker. The review recommends ultrasound as the default for every internal jugular line.
A plan to test whether clinicians and lay readers can each find practical help on a patient page and understand what they read. It sets out the tasks, a readability checklist built on the Federal Plain Language Guidelines and a user survey, along with how the two groups' ratings will be compared.
Directed trauma services at a Level I trauma center and ran its 12-person program office for performance improvement, registry reporting and protocol development. Led the 2012 re-verification to zero criteria deficiencies and a top-five ranking in the ACS Trauma Quality Improvement Program. Designed a geriatric trauma service and wrote the business plan that funded it, and chaired the Texas trauma systems subcommittee for advanced practice providers.
Nurse practitioner in trauma and acute care surgery, emergency medicine, trauma orthopedics, urgent care and primary care since 2013.
Associate Clinical Professor in the acute care and family NP programs at the University of Texas at Arlington, 2017 to 2020.
MS in Technical Communication, University of Houston-Downtown. MSN, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Post-master's AG-ACNP, UT Arlington.
