Sam Celarek Sam Celarek Healthcare Data Analyst Former Neuro ICU Nurse Portland, Oregon ← Back to home
  • 3M+ IVF cycles in a database I designed
  • 30→1 min to prep each government RFP lead, with a Python pipeline I built
  • 41% fewer central line infections after a QI rollout I led
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Sam Celarek, BSN · 2014 – 2022

Nursing & Clinical Quality

SSM Saint Louis University Hospital · Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Eight years as a nurse, before data was my job title: tracking safety metrics, auditing charts and running the changes that moved them.

−41%central line infections
4 yrson the QI & Safety Council
2 yrsas council chair
2×DAISY Award winner

🩺Central line infections

0 1 2 2017: 2.32 per 1,000 line days2.322017 2018 YTD: 1.37 per 1,000 line days1.372018 YTD −41%
CLABSI per 1,000 central line days, house-wide.

After house-wide adoption of central line care standards that I led, driven by infection data, protocol changes and chart audits.

💊Barcode medication scanning

0% 2% 4% 6% Before: 5.9% unscanned (94.1% scanned)5.9%Before94.1% scanned After: 4.6% unscanned (95.4% scanned)4.6%After95.4% scanned Target ≤ 3% −22%
Share of medications given without a bedside barcode scan. The 3% target equals 97% scanned.

Tracked compliance monthly against a 97% target and published unit-level scores. Catalogued the barriers (unreadable wristbands, scanner reach, verification timing), routed them to a barriers assessment team, and worked through them with pharmacy and physicians. Staff education, incentives and new equipment raised scanning from 94.1% to 95.4%, cutting unscanned doses by about a fifth.

🏥SSM Saint Louis University Hospital

Charge Nurse, Neuro Step-Down · Jul 2014 – Oct 2017
Neuro ICU Nurse · Nov 2017 – Jul 2019
QI and Safety Council Chair · 2018 – 2019

  • Led a council of 6–8 nurses working alongside pharmacy, physicians, infection control and Epic support.
  • Ran yearly initiatives on hand hygiene, falls, sepsis recognition, device days (CAUTI and CLABSI) and smart-pump guardrails, tracked monthly against national patient safety goals and reported to hospital leadership.
  • Worked with Epic support on documentation audits and drop-down design for central line care, and trained nurses on new workflows at each Epic go-live.
  • Audited patient charting to find barriers and lapses, then improved workflows.
  • As charge nurse, handled staffing, assignments, patient acuity and emergencies, and mentored new nurses and council members. Won the DAISY Award twice, once on the step-down floor and once in the neuro ICU.

🗓️On the council

  • 2015Joined the QI & Safety Council
  • 2016Secretary
  • 2017Vice chair
  • 2018 – 2019Chair

🧠Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Critical Care Nurse & Scheduling Committee Chair, Neuro ICU · 2019 – 2022

  • Cared for critically ill neurological and respiratory patients on a multidisciplinary neuro critical care (NCCU) team.
  • Made treatment decisions from patient history, labs, assessments and real-time physiological monitoring.
  • As Scheduling Committee chair, created an Excel scoring model that ranked and assigned shift requests against staffing rules, balancing unit needs with nurse preferences.

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