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Mary Lawanson-Nichols, MSN, RN, NP, CNS

Specialty: Adult Critical Care and Intermediate Care 
Hospital Affiliation: UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

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Abstracts/ Presentations

Beyond the ICU: Improving Communication Utilizing IMPACT-ICU Strategies. National Teaching Institute for American Association of Critical Care Conference. 2021 (Podium)

SOS-Stomp out Sepsis! National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2019 Annual Conference. Orlando , FL. 2019 (Podium)

Identifying Prompt Palliative Care “Triggers” in the Broad Spectrum Critical Care Setting. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2018 Annual Conference. Austin , TX. 2018 (Podium)


Awards

2021 Drivers of Change Award - Clinical Nurse Specialist Team, UCLA Health, CENTER


Exemplars

  • 2021- Santa Monica Critical Care & Intermediate Care- inter-professional collaborating to reduce device related pressure injury for nasal cannula and high flow nasal cannula- to date no further injury from these specific devices
  • 2019-2020- Santa Monica Critical Care- Zero CLABSI for over one year
  • The CNS mentored nurse champions at Santa Monica UCLA were instrumental in educating their colleagues in instituting a new sepsis screening tool. Champions presented fall out cases at the monthly meeting. Took part in unit staff meeting and rounds to encourage peer to peer education
  • With the assistance of the unit champions & Sepsis RNs, mortality from Severe Sepsis was reduced to 9% in 2017. Septic Shock mortality decreased from 47% to 16% in the same year
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