Volume 8
Issue 4
February 22, 2013
PRESBYbulletin Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Quality &Safety Awards PPMC QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY AWARD Jeanmarie Salonia, PharmD Judith O’Donnell, MD Danielle Hafetz, RN, BSN, CIC
Congratulations to PPMC’s winning entries in the 2012 UPHS Quality and Patient Safety awards!
OPERATIONAL AWARD Improving the PPMC Critical Values Notification Process Project Team Members:
UPHS QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY AWARD
Bo Jian, MD Michael Atweh, MBA, MHA Roxan Reynolds, MBA, MT(ASCP) Robert Adkins, BS, MT(ASCP)
Fast Track Extubation Guidelines for Select Cardiac Surgery Patients at PPMC SICU
Patricia O’Brien, RN, MSN
Project Team Members:
Kimberly Volpe, BS, MT(ASCP)
Jacob Gutsche, MD
Karen Belfi, RN, MSN
Joseph DiMartino, RN, MSN Mary Ann Jones, RN, MSN Kim Volpe, BS, MT, ASCP Bryan Fagan, RN, BSN Jeanne Lavelle, RN, BSN Jackie Skodzinski, RN, BSN Roseann Rapa, MS, RRT
Kimberly Pavan, MSN, CRNP Denise Gilanelli, RN, BSN, MS
Educational and Electronic Medical Record Interventions to Decrease Opioids Dispensed at Discharge in the HUP and PPMC Emergency Departments
Adam McMullen, BS, MLS(ASCP)
PPMC Project Team Members: Amanda Binkley, PharmD Christopher Edwards, MD Gerald O’Neill, MD Peter Sananman, MD (continued on back)
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HONORABLE MENTION (continued from front)
Improving door-to-EKG time in the Emergency Department Project Team Members:
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Kristen Deis, BSN, RN, CEN Christopher Wm. Edwards, MD, FACEP Jenelle Elm, MSN, RN Allen Fasnacht, BSN, RN John C. Flamma Jr., MD Tiffany Harris, BSN, RN Michelle Jackson, BSN, RN Diane Maccarone, BSN, RN, CEN Leighann Mazzone, RN, CEN Lauren McPeake, BSN, RN
The Diversity Minute Did you know…? Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first black woman to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. On August 1, 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney received her nursing diploma, becoming the first African American graduate nurse. In 1878, when she was 33 years old, Mahoney began nurses’ training at the New England Hospital. The nursing program was established by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, one of the first women doctors in the United States.
Vincent Osborn, BS
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Megan Rosso, DO Gene Valentino, BSN, RN
HONORABLE MENTION Intense Inventory Management in an Infusion Suite Pharmacy Project Team Members: Randy Lynch, PharmD Nishaminy Kasbekar, PharmD Elizabeth Larijani, RPh Robert Sheridan, RPh Jack Goldberg, MD Robert Tobin, RN
American Red Cross Blood Drive
-Submitted by Petrina McFarlane, MSN, RN, Cupp 3 South
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013 | Time: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM
*The information provided in this column should be used as a general reference, the beginning point of assessment for learning about patient cultural values. It should by no means serve as a behavioral predictor or in determining treatment.
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