Pat's Outstanding Outcomes
Magnet
- Led five successful Magnet Journeys®
- Wrote successful Magnet documents
- Led hospital preparation teams for ANCC® site visits
Emergency Preparedness
- Wrote federal contract and 12 deliverables to prepare hospitals and more than 40 community agencies for emergency preparedness
- Led three hospital committees in developing pandemic plans
- Developed the first ED case management program in the community.
National Role
- Delivered the nursing opinion (ANA and ENA) regarding Smallpox vaccination at the Institutes of Medicine
- Presented community preparedness planning at national conferences including Emergency Nurses Association and Surge Capacity Meeting
- Appointed to the CDC committee on Surge Capacity
- Co-sponsor of the first national consensus conference on Biocontainment Patient Care Units
- Media spokesperson on terrorism and emergency preparedness – delivered over 50 local media interviews and a national ABC News interview
Emergency Services
- Opened first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program, ED nurse practitioner program, and case management program in metropolitan community
- Developed the first ED nurse practitioner program in an emergency department in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Developed the first case management program in the emergency department in the community.
- Provided administrative support to develop the first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program in Omaha, Nebraska
- Developed a behavioral health consulting service program for an emergency department
- Led administrative team consisting of all hospital directors, ED nurse manager, ED medical director to develop strategies to improve hospital throughput
- Successfully facilitated passing of Nebraska Statute to allow ED nurses to testify by affidavit rather that going to court
- Developed universal education on domestic violence screening for medical providers in the Omaha community
- Administrator for the development of a new Children’s ED
- Developed nurse triage system and medical protocols which allowed nursing staff to begin diagnosis and treatment prior to using medical protocols
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