Theresa Rapstine Profiled in Denver's Nursing Star
Denver's Nursing Star (.pdf)
Theresa Rapstine has worked in Children's emergency department for 23 years and has seen too many preventable injuries. Her mission is to help prevent these injuries and is doing all she can to keep children from ending up in the hospital.
She is the director of the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute at Children's and oversees a team with a mission of preventing injuries and providing safety products and research related to keeping kids out of the hospital.
In 2004, Rapstine led Children's and the Safe Kids Coalition to lobby the Colorado Legislature for stronger child passenger safety laws. She also took sabbatical and went on a six-month special assignment as project manager for Safe Kids Worldwide in the Asia Pacific region to help pedestrian safety issues involving children.
“I am never comfortable in the status quo,” she said. “I’m always striving to make it bigger and better and that just fits my personality.” And she is making a difference to make children's lives better.
Read Theresa's full profile in Denver's Nursing Star (.pdf)
