QMG Welcomes Wayland Mutter, AGACNP-BC

Way­land Mut­ter has spent 18 years of his nurs­ing career in the Inten­sive Care Unit (ICU) car­ing for some of the most crit­i­cal­ly ill patients. His choice to fur­ther his edu­ca­tion and serve the ICU as an Acute Care Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er comes from his pas­sion to be there for others.

“It all real­ly boils down to help­ing peo­ple in their dark­est hour of need. I am very pas­sion­ate about serv­ing the crit­i­cal­ly ill patient, and I can’t imag­ine doing any­thing else. I tru­ly love what I do. Under­neath it all, we are just humans help­ing humans, and the world needs more of us.”

Time in the ICU can also be an emo­tion­al time for fam­i­ly and friends of the patient. Hav­ing expe­ri­enced hav­ing a loved one in the ICU, he knows how impor­tant com­mu­ni­ca­tion and com­pas­sion are in that set­ting. ​“This expe­ri­ence has giv­en me a first-hand insight of what it feels like to be the receiv­er of health care rather than the provider. What did I learn? I have time to lis­ten, and I use it. I talk with the patient and their sup­port team of fam­i­ly and friends. We dis­cuss and devel­op mutu­al goals regard­ing their health and well-being.”

Way­land received his Post Mas­ters-Adult Geron­tol­ogy Acute Care Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er Degree from Saint Louis Uni­ver­si­ty, and his Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Nurs­ing Admin­is­tra­tion and Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Nurs­ing from the Bless­ing Rie­man Col­lege of Nurs­ing & Health Sci­ences. He and his wife, Heather, have two sons.