Nurse Executive Podcast

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Ellie Kruk, MHA, RN, NE-BC, vice president and chief nurse executive at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital. They discuss strategies employed to implement a discharge lounge at Palos Hospital, which has reduced the average discharge process from four hours to less than one hour and Emergency Department left without being seen rates by 49 percent, among other successes. Find out more about the discharge lounge: https://news.nm.org/northwestern-medicine-palos-hospital-discharge-lounge-provides-smoother-transition-home/

In the season 3 premiere, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Bill Orrell, MBA, MSN, RN, a managing director on BRG's Clinical Transformation team. They discuss the first two seasons of the podcast, current industry trends, and performance improvement solutions with returns on investment.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Noreen Hudson, MSN, RN, BRG's nursing team lead for perioperative services. They continue their conversation about the various departments comprising perioperative services. They discuss the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU); phases 1, 2, and 3 recovery; on-call coverage practices; and PACU boarding in the midst of hospital room capacity constraints.

Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Erik Martin, DNP, RN, CENP, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at Norton Children's Hospital. Erik reflects on his two-year term as president of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and ten continuous years of service on AONL's board.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Andrew Agwunobi, MD, MBA, president of Home Solutions at Humana Inc. They discuss current trends in the quality, cost, and value of home-based healthcare.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Marianne Bondanza, MSN, RN, CCRP, CLNC, an associate director in BRG's Non-Labor Clinical Supply Chain team. They discuss the value clinicians bring in terms of product efficiency and cost reduction while sustaining and/or enhancing patient outcomes.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Matthew S. Howard, DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CPN, FAEN, Director of Scholarship & Leadership Resources at Sigma. They discuss the differentiation between bullying and incivility, as well as key interventions to prevent and/or mitigate their occurrence in the healthcare environment.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Mitzi Saunders, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, president of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS). They review the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and discuss key attributes of an organization with an effective CNS program.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN regarding the state of triage accuracy in US emergency departments. They focus on the impact of poor accuracy on patient outcomes and essential information that nurse executives should know to improve triage quality in their organizations.

Emergency department triage accuracy hovers at about 60 percent overall, and at only 43 percent on the ability to distinguish patient stability from decompensation risk. Triage accuracy is associated with core measures' compliance and timely admissions to the intensive care unit. It is a matter of patient safety and financial stewardship.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Rebecca Harris, DNP, MBA, BSN, RN, an associate director on BRG's Care Transformation team. They continue an earlier podcast discussion on healthcare workplace violence. Dr. Harris's work has focused on verbal aggression as a mechanism to reduce workplace violence against nurses. This episode summarizes her policy analysis, which can be viewed at https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/son_dnp/132/.