Mary Sitterding

Experience

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  Magnet Recognition Program

  Jan 2007 - now

  Team Leader Appraiser, Magnet Recognition Program
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  Indiana University Health

  Sept 2008 - Feb 2015

  Executive Director, Nursing Research, Professional Practice and Operational Improvement

  This position existed to design, implement, and sustain system structures and processes ensuring excellence in professional practice: quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and research across an 18-hospital system. This role was responsible for adherence to professional nursing practice model and nursing excellence principles demonstrated in ANCC Magnet sources of evidence; design and execution of processes, structures, and roles enabling system-wide nursing research and evidence-based nursing and patient care practice serving approximately 5000 employees. Accomplishments included: - 2013 Magnet document for the system resulting in Magnet site visit award redesignation with exemplars - system-wide statistically significant reductions in hospital-acquired fall and pressure injury - system-wide development of nurse-led sitter protocol resulting in a statistically significant reduction in unnecessary sitter utilization - system-wide direct-care nursing Think Tank contributing to incremental and disruptive innovation initiatives resulting in improvement in patient satisfaction and nursing workflow while decreasing hospital-acquired patient harm - development of an opioid-tolerance algorithm contributing to decreased patient harm (over-sedation) and system-wide improvement in patient satisfaction with pain management - Directed optimization and alignment between advanced practice and system-wide organizational priorities - core member of the Indiana University Health – Indiana University School of Nursing Leadership Council contributing to service and academic empirical outcomes recognized by AONE and STTI Show less

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  Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  Feb 2015 - Feb 2020

  Vice President, Center for Professional Excellence

  Served as the administrator within the Department of Patient Services for the Center for Professional Excellence serving the healthcare system. This position provided strategic direction to design, implement, and sustain system structures and processes ensuring excellence in advanced practice, accreditation and regulatory affairs, practice, professional development, informatics, and research across Patient Services serving > 7000 employees. Accomplishments include: Magnet redesignation with exemplars, provided strategic direction aligning the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) and Shared Governance structure with Integrated Operations Plan and performance targets recognized Gold Standard exemplar, co-directed redesign of accreditation and regulatory affairs consolidating three disparate departments and teams eliminating an over-reliance on one to a systematic approach to accreditation readiness contributing to successful ODH-CMS, Joint Commission, UNOS, CARF, and ACS surveys, 40% reduction in serious harm, 25% CLABSI reduction, and 70% PI reduction, strategic direction for research in Patient Services resulting in 24 awards totaling $ 3.8M, 57 peer-reviewed publications, centralization of professional development standardizing role development, competencies, and contribution, FTE BSN and higher % at the bedside: 82.3%, FTE Certification % at the bedside: 57.3%, Residency retention after 1 year: 98%, University of Cincinnati College of Nursing co-operative program retention after 3 years: 97%, award winner AACN Research Impact as a result leading research examining the impact of virtual reality on new nurse learner early recognition (situation awareness) of deterioration among hospitalized infants. Show less

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  NLN CNEA

  Jan 2019 - Nov 2020

  Chair, Nurse Residency Task Force
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  Ascension

  Nov 2020 - now

  • Vice President, Nursing Quality and Regulatory at Ascension

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Vice President, Nursing Research & Evidence-based Practice

    May 2021 - Aug 2022

  • National Director, Nursing Research

    Nov 2020 - May 2021