Clinical Associate Professor Tonja Hartjes was invited to be a Contributing Editor for the journal Critical Care Nurse for an ongoing column on Academic Education. The Contributing Editor (CEd) position is a three year appointment, 2017 through 2019. The journal is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal which provides critical care and acute care nurses with accurate, relevant, and useful information concerning the bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients and to keep critical and acute care nurses informed on issues that affect their practice. By reading the journal, critical care and acute care nurses should benefit through increased knowledge concerning critical and acute care nursing practice and be able to use this knowledge to care for patients and their families in a more effective manner.