Katie Donnelly, CNP

About

Katie Donnelly, CNP is certified as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, and seven years of that nursing practice have been spent inside reproductive endocrinology at Cleveland Clinic. An acute care credential is an odd fit for a fertility clinic until you look at what a stimulated cycle can produce: ovarian hyperstimulation, torsion risk with enlarged ovaries, bleeding or pain after a retrieval, a patient who needs triage the same day. That is the assessment skill set she brings to cycle care.

She is also the fertility nurse practitioner who works outside Beachwood. Donnelly holds clinic at the Richard E. Jacobs Health Center in Avon as well as at the Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center, which matters for scheduling: a stimulation cycle asks for monitoring appointments every couple of days, sometimes at dawn, and a patient living west of Cleveland can be watched locally instead of driving east twice a week. Her Avon clinic day is listed with her practice location.

Her degrees are Ohio institutions across three schools — the University of Findlay in 2009, a bachelor’s at Ohio Northern University in 2012, and a master’s in nursing from Kent State University in 2019. She remains an active member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the specialty society whose guidelines set fertility treatment standards nationally, and completed Cleveland Clinic’s internal leadership training pathway.

Clinical Expertise

• Cycle monitoring at two sites: ultrasound and bloodwork review during stimulation at Avon and at Beachwood, with results routed to the prescribing physician
• Acute assessment during treatment: same-day evaluation of pain, bleeding, bloating or shortness of breath in patients on gonadotropins, the part of cycle care her acute care certification is training for
• Retrieval and transfer support: pre-procedure preparation and post-procedure follow-up coordinated with the physician team
• Treatment education: walkthroughs of the cycle calendar, medications and self-injections before treatment begins
• Evidence-based nursing practice: her profile states a standard of applying current clinical evidence to care decisions, consistent with active ASRM membership

Why Choose Katie Donnelly

Seven years in one specialty clinic. Fertility nursing has a short list of clinicians who stay long enough to see complications twice. Donnelly’s entire Cleveland Clinic nursing career in reproductive endocrinology runs seven years.

A nurse practitioner who can be your local monitoring visit. Patients in Lorain and western Cuyahoga County communities can be monitored at Avon rather than at Beachwood, which is the difference between keeping a job during stimulation and not keeping it.

An acute care credential behind the fertility schedule, plus ASRM membership and completion of Cleveland Clinic’s leadership training pathway — a combination that is unusual on a fertility center’s nursing staff.

Professional Affiliations

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, certified per her National Practitioner Identifier registration. Active member, American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Nurse practitioner in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Cleveland Clinic Fertility Center, practicing at the Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center and the Richard E. Jacobs Health Center in Avon, Ohio. Cleveland Clinic leadership training pathway completed.

Suitable For

• Patients living west of Cleveland who need stimulated-cycle monitoring close to home
• IVF patients wanting a nurse practitioner trained in acute care assessment on their monitoring team
• Patients who want treatment education and cycle-calendar instruction before starting medications
• Women with infertility being evaluated and treated who prefer continuity with one nurse practitioner across visits