Kelly Evangelista

• Mentorship under expert nurse leaders to develop leadership skills
• Involvement in emerging leader seminars and training Collaboration with executive leadership entities to provide evidence-based QI project
• Engagement in evidence appraisal and research skills Improving skills through feedback and engagement with facilitators

QI Project: The Implementation of an Evidence-Based Mentorship Program in the Nursing Education Department

• Displays expertise in pediatric development and nursing skill in a clinical setting to ensure competency development among nursing students
• Uses critical thinking and judgement to assess and provide feedback on nursing care maps
• Delivers individualized instruction on observation, assessment, decision-making, and patient teaching
• Improved student performance by defining clear goals and communicating performance metrics
• Provides immediate and constructive feedback to students individually and as group
• Disseminates evidence-based knowledge and nursing strategies to students
• Uses teaching methods based in evidence and theory

• Offers exceptional, quality care and support to individuals recovering from acute incidents and dealing with chronic conditions in the acute care setting
• Displays flexibility in working in multiple units, at times floating to multiple units per shift
• Contributes to positive patient satisfaction scores Engaged in unit-based decisions and transformational leadership through the involvement in hospital-based committees and QI initiatives
• Involvement:
• 2022-2023: New Nurse Residency Facilitator
• 2022-present: Professional Practice Council Member
• Student nurse intern preceptor
• Achievements:
• 2023: Nurse Excellence Scholarship Recipient
• 10/2023: Great Catch Award Recipient

• Care of the pediatric patient with various traumatic injuries
• Care of the pediatric patient post-op orthopedic surgeries including patients with casts and splints, as well as those in Bucks traction
• Care of the patient with neurologic and neurosurgical conditions
• Management and specimen collection of external ventricular devices and lumbar drains • •
• Involvement:
• 2022: Competency champion and validator
• Preceptor of new nurses and nursing students
• Achievements:
• 6/2022: Daisy Award Nominee

• Quality care of a generalized pediatric population including disorders related to but not limited to hematology/oncology, gastrointestinal chronic conditions, premature newborns and associated disorders, sepsis and infectious disease, respiratory disorders and infections, trauma, neurologic disease and injury, and congenital/acquired heart disease
• Quality care of intermediate level patients requiring advanced respiratory support and a higher level of care
• Administration of chemotherapy and biotherapy medications in pediatric patients
• Involvement:
• 2020: Milrinone education champion
• 2020-2021: Teamwork and IPSO Sepsis Committee Member

• Care of patients with pediatric congenital and acquired heart disease including those with LVADs
• Trained to care for ICU level patients including those with arterial lines, endotracheal tubes as well as administration of sedation and paralytics
• Care for patients post-op cardiac surgery, heart/lung transplant, and cardiac catheterization •Management of high-alert vasoactive infusion
• Involvement: • 2018: Annual Competency Champion
• 2018-2019: Med-PI Committee Member and Peer Review Co-chair
• Achievements:
• 6/2018, 9/2018: Daisy Award Nominee