Karen Laforet is founder and senior clinical consultant for LK Professional Consulting Group. The company focuses on clinical practice implementation, quality improvement, and legal consultation primarily for vascular access, infusion therapy, and skin health. She is also a part-time faculty member with York University's Health Leadership and Learning Network, where she teaches postgraduate nursing continuing professional development, and has presented her work nationally and internationally and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Karen has a deep commitment to improve patient safety and health outcomes through the application of evidence into practice for medication and infusion therapy, pain and symptom management, skin health integrity and health policy advocacy. Karen is a committee member with the provincial nursing regulatory agency, the College of Nurses of Ontario; is serving on the National Coalition for IV Push Safety (NCIVPS); is a member of and on the editorial review committee for the Infusion Nurses Society (INS); and is involved with the Association of Vascular Access (AVA) as a committee member for the Clinical Practice Guideline Group and as current president-elect. Karen continues to work clinically in the community and long-term care areas.