APP Education; Structural Heart Program - Clinical APP
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
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Kehllee Popovich, MSN, ACNP-BC has been an acute care NP since 1996, spear-heading APRN-led clinical practice in the adult surgical ICUs at University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center. Throughout her career she has developed numerous nursing-practice focused carepaths focused on standardizing care and decreasing length of stay.
Clinically, she continues to work in and outpatient with the Structural Heart Team as well as continued contributions to staff education, protocol revisions and taking an active role in the team’s weekly screening meeting. Kehllee has a passion for complex geriatric patients as well as leveraging family and social support for discharge to home rather than skilled nursing and preventing readmissions.
In addition, she co-leads the Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) clinic, helping to build and expand the holistic, patient-centered clinic focused on clinical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of long term recovery from critical illness. Through growth and analysis, the clinic hopes to impact all PICS patients, but importantly, the vulnerable populations of racial minorities and social disenfranchised patients, impacting short term recovery and long term health attainment.
In late 2018 Kehllee headed the development of an Advanced Practice Provider Education program, developing onboarding lectures for new hires, providing online and in-seat training for new and established APPs. With her leadership, advanced practice clinical areas across the UH Clinical Network are developing standardized orientation and timelines with measurable goals so that new hires can be successfully on-boarded, improving APP satisfaction and retention. Kehllee developed an innovated Competency-Based Hospitalist Training Program for regional hospitals hiring APPs into the hospitalist role, with the third enrollee in the six month program finishing in March 2021.
Kehllee is also an active committee member for a number of Society of Critical Care Committees, including Critical Care Education, Advanced Practice Professionalism and Mentorship and FCCS Committee.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST
Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST