JCR Selects 2010 Nurse Safety Scholar-in-Residence

• 5/28/2010
• Author: Jim Parker
• Category: Perspectives on Patient Safety Blog
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JCR and its partner Hill-Rom have selected a new Nurse Safety Scholar-in-Residence: certified wound, ostomy, and continence nurse Diane Whitworth, head of the Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital wound care team in Richmond, Virginia. Diane has more than three decades of clinical experience under her belt. She will taking over for the first Nurse Safety Scholar-in-residence, Nurse Practitioner Irene M. Jankowski, A.P.R.N., M.S.N, C.W.O.C.N., of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

JCR and Hill-Rom launched the Nurse Safety Scholar-in-Residence program in 2009. This is a three-year project, the mission of which is to develop tools and best practices for maintaining skin integrity and prevent pressure ulcers. The program emphasizes the key role of nurses in bringing new research findings into actual patient care.

The program’s goals include:
• To foster the professional development of expert nurse clinicians and scholars to become translators of evidence into practice;
• To disseminate best practice processes associated with providing safe care for specific clinical problems; and
• To continue the work of a  hospital-based collaborative project focused on the implementation of pressure ulcer reduction strategies.

Click here for more information about the program, and good luck Diane luck on this new endeavor.