Outside of the comfort zone is where the magic happens! –Trista Perot
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. –Ryan Blair, 22 Wallpapers
Do or do not. There is no try. –Master Yoda
There has always been two opposing forces at work in Dr. Kurtz’s life: science and creative arts. Science won out the first part of her life but following graduation, she began a project with three of her colleagues, the writing of their life journeys to their PhDs and the difficulties overcome.
Dr. Sharon Kurtz began her career as a registered nurse and eventually worked for The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas caring for post cardiovascular surgery patients, including thoracic abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs and heart and lung transplant patients. During an eighteen-month stent to Midland, Texas, she accepted a job as an infection preventionist and discovered her passion. Returning to Dallas, she became Manager of Infection Control at Methodist Charlton Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas for seven years. From there she was recruited into the corporate world by Covidien, LLC. as an Infection Control Specialist. There, she coordinated with the infection control preventionists in hospitals to determine urinary tract and surgical site infection rates before and after the initiation of the Dover Silver Catheter and the antimicrobial dressings produced by Covidien. Five years later, she returned to the hospital environment when she became Director of Infection Control at Arlington Medical Center in Arlington, Texas.
Needing more time to concentrate on doctoral studies, Dr. Kurtz left Arlington Medical Center and began her dissertation shell. Following graduation, she began a project with three of her colleagues, the writing of their life journeys to their PhDs and the difficulties overcome. Currently pursuing publication of The Fab Four, she is also working on a second book about the year her husband was in Viet Nam.
2017 – Demographic factors associated with consistent hand hygiene adherence among ICU nurses. Read it here.
View and download Dr. Sharon’s CV here.