Lisa A. Gorski

Lisa A. Gorski has worked for 40 years as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and educator for Wheaton Franciscan Home Health & Hospice, now part of Ascension at Home, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a CNS, she has played a key role in the home infusion therapy program, contributing to clinician education, policy and procedure development, and competency assessment and participating in agency quality improvement initiatives, including infection control and surveillance. She continues to also provide direct patient care.

Lisa received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Nursing. Her graduate work focused on the chronically ill patient population. Within her home care agency, she has also focused extensively on preventing hospitalizations, including a focus on the heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient populations. Lisa served on the American Nurses Association committee and helped develop the American Nurses Association Home Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, most recently published in 2015.

Lisa is the author of more than 70 book chapters and journal articles on home care and infusion therapy topics. She is also the author of several books, including Fast Facts for Nurses About Home Infusion Therapy (2017) and the eighth edition of Phillips’s Manual of IV Therapeutics: Evidence-Based Practice for Infusion Therapy (2023). Lisa has been actively involved with the Infusion Nurses Society (INS) for many years. She served as the 2007–2008 INS president, was the 2017–2019 chairperson of the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation, served as the chairperson for the INS Standards of Practice Committee from 2009 through 2024, and has also chaired the INS Vesicant Task Force since 2017. She has also served as a consultant for several healthcare companies.

In 2006, Lisa was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. She was named the 2003 CRNI of the Year by INS and the 2011 CNS of the Year by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists. She speaks nationally and internationally on standards development, infusion therapy/vascular access, and home health care. Over the past few years, Lisa has presented well-received presentations in the US, China, Europe, and several Middle Eastern and Latin American countries, addressing standards of practice relative to care of vascular access devices and infusion administration.