Sam Celarek, BSN · 2014 – 2022

Clinical Quality Improvement

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

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.

Share of medications scanned at the bedside.

Raised with staff education, incentives and new equipment.

Charge Nurse & QI and Safety Council Chair · 2014 – 2019

Led the council's work with pharmacy, physicians, infection control and Epic support, and presented results 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.
Charge nurse for staffing, acuity and escalations. Two-time DAISY Award winner.

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

Made treatment decisions from labs, assessments and live monitoring on a multidisciplinary neuro critical care (NCCU) team.
As Scheduling Committee chair, created an Excel scoring model that balanced unit staffing needs with nurse preferences and automated shift assignment.