Kristin Nannetti, MSN, RN, CHPN, CNL, CCRN is the Palliative Care Coordinator at VHC Health. She serves as a consultant, educator, triage clinician, and nurse leader at VHC Health.
She graduated with honors from Salisbury University in 2012 with a Bachelor’s of Science with a major in biology and minor in art. She worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Henson School of Biology during her final year. She began her career in healthcare in 2011 working as a volunteer EMT, a volunteer and medical scribe in the emergency department of Medstar Montgomery Medical Center, and as a medical assistant/office coordinator of a Maryland Oncology Hematology clinic. While obtaining her Master’s degree in Clinical Nursing Leadership through the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing’s accelerated program, she worked as a student nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and was a member of the Pi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (the Honors Society of Nursing) through the University of Maryland Baltimore. After graduating with honors, she began as a Clinical Scholar and then staff nurse in the medical ICU of UMMC. She served as a charge nurse, preceptor, Epic super-user, procedural and chemo-certified nurse, on the resuscitation team, and floated to resuscitation units within the shock trauma center. While she loved working in critical care, she began to feel called to the specialty of palliative medicine.
Kristin began on the palliative care team at Virginia Hospital Center in June of 2017 as a Palliative Care Staff Nurse III before being promoted to Palliative Care Staff Nurse IV and then to the position of the team’s Palliative Care Coordinator. Kristin has certifications in hospice and palliative care, critical care, and clinical nursing leadership. She received training in grief counseling from the world-renowned David Kessler, critical incident stress management from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF), and bioethics from Georgetown University. She serves on the VHC Ethics Committee, Nursing Leadership Council, and Cancer Committee. She is a member of the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association and American Association of Critical Care Nurses. She is also on the steering committee for the Coalition to Improve Advanced Care (CIAC) in the Arlington, VA community. She is passionate about palliative care and hospice, advance care planning, patient advocacy, education, and healthcare policy.
When not working, she enjoys traveling to the beach, dancing, and spending time with her family.
