Ann Marie Nie, PhD, MSN, FNP-BC, CWOCN, WOCNF

Dayton Children's Hospital

Wound, Ostomy Nurse Practitioner

Ann Marie Nie holds a PhD and is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a specialty in wound, ostomy and continence care. She is currently employed at Dayton Children’s Hospital as a Wound and ostomy NP and Pressure Injury Preventionist. She has worked in the pediatric pressure injury prevention arena since 2006. She was instrumental in the development of a pediatric pressure injury prevention program at 3 free-standing pediatric hospitals. Her research has focused on risk factors for PI development in all ages of pediatric patients from extremely premature infants to age 22 in order to understand the difference in pediatric vs adult pressure injuries and developing prevention measures focused on the age of the patient. She is an adjunct instructor for the Cleveland Clinic R. B. Turnbull Jr. MD WOC Nursing Education Program.

She currently is the Secretary of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. She is the chair of an NPIAP international collaborative that is performing a scoping review of the literature to determine at what gestational age all layers of the skin are fully developed in order to use the current PI staging system.

She is a WOCN fellow, class of 2024, and speaks nationally and internationally on pediatric PI prevention measures, wound care, ostomy and neonatal skin. She has authored several journal articles and book chapters on understanding pressure injuries in the children from 22 weeks gestation to 21 years of age.