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
