Maureen Seckel & Dannette Mitchell, Innovators
'We empower the team to provide evidence-based care and the tools to put it into practice.'
Maureen Seckel, Clinical Nurse Specialist
National Critical Care Expert. Grandmother of Two.
Dannette Mitchell, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Innovative Nurse Leader. Mom of a Medical Student.
In ChristianaCare’s leading edge hospitals, patients with COVID-19 in danger of respiratory failure are placed on their stomachs to ease their breathing.
Prone positioning, a technique to help patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome to breathe better, had been a longtime practice on ChristianaCare’s intensive care units, with the leadership of clinical nurse specialists Maureen Seckel, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CCNS, FCCM, FCNS, and Dannette Mitchell, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CCRN.
Prone positioning became a best practice nationally during the pandemic. As forerunners in the use of this evidence-based technique, caregivers on ChristianaCare’s intensive care units were able to incorporate this highly effective, life-saving measure into COVID-19 care early on.
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