Adrienne Zurub, RN, MA,CNOR is a twenty year plus member of the Cardiothoracic/Heart Transplant team at Cleveland Clinic.  Mrs. Zurub, received her Associate Degree in Nursing from Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio; and her Master's Degree in Philosophy with a Concentration in Bioethics from Cleveland State University. 
She applied to and was accepted into Law School but declined to go to pursue her artistic selves.
Mrs. Zurub has precepted orientees, residents, and sometimes even the surgeons themselves. 
Recently, she authored a significant chapter for the Cleveland Clinic forthcoming book celebrating, eighty years of Nursing Excellence.
Adrienne has overall experience in the OR from beginning her career at Saint Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio (now defunct).  It was at St. Luke's that she was introduced to 'home' that being the OR.  "The OR fit me like a glove!  I loved the cases, the patients and the pace of it all."  At St. Luke's, Adrienne did every kind of general case from craniotomies to meetings of the knife and gun club, to eye and plastic surgeries.

Coming to the Cleveland Clinic was truly a 'homecoming' for Adrienne.  Cardiac surgery was the service she specifically came for.  "I can not tell you how very excited I was (and still am) to be part of the Open Heart team at Cleveland Clinic.  I was and am proud!  The cases we do are incredible.  The patients I meet and talk with preoperatively and intraoperatively come from all over the world."

Adrienne has Medical-Surgical experience working at one time for 3 separate Nursing Agencies.  
She is a member of AORN.  And continues her educational pursuits as well as the noted artistic pursuits.