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Director of Patient Safety, Risk & Regulatory
Good Shepherd Penn Partners
I have been a registered nurse for 30 years and have a background in medical-surgical, oncological, and critical care nursing. For the past eight years, I have worked in hospital administration, initially as a Quality Manager and now as the Director of Patient Safety, Risk, and Regulatory. I am passionate about improving patient safety for patients/families/caregivers who trust themselves or their loved ones to our care. Preventing pressure injuries has been a focus of our organization for many years but until the last three years, we did not sustain success in reducing these events. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, access to evidence-based science regarding the prevention of pressure injuries, and utilization of technology, we have seen a tremendous decrease in pressure injury development in our organization.