Quality Improvement

Nicklaus Children's Hospital GME Department has a structured Quality Improvement (QI) Curriculum for Residents, Fellows, and faculty development for faculty mentors. Trainees are expected to engaged in a self-generated and designed QI project during their training. The QI projects may follow PDSA, LEAN, Six Sigma, or other widely established QI methodologies. Trainees document their projects on a QI Project Documentation Form. Projects are presented in a QI forum using a QI Reporting Template and at the end of the academic year in the Annual Residents' and Fellows' Scholarship Day.

Below is a listing of our fellows' completed 2019-2020 QI projects:

TITLE	FELLOWS & COLLABORATORS	FACULTY MENTORS
Improving Screening for Child Abuse in Adolescent Medicine Clinic	Monica Rezk, DO Adolescent Medicine Fellow Jennifer Thompson, MD Pediatric Resident	Metee Comkornruecha, MD Shaketha Gray, MD
Cardiac Arrest Prevention (CAP) Bundle	Kinjal Parikh, MD Saleem Almasarweh, MD Anas Kayoum, MD Ped Cardiology Fellows	Jun Sasaki, MD
Early Administration of Long-Acting Insulin in DKA: A QI Project to reduce the Time Adjustment Requirement Post-Transition	Kalpana Singh, MD Ped Critical Care Fellow Gabriella Blyumin, PharmD	Bala Totapally, MD Paul Martinez, MD Alejandro Diaz, MD
Recognizing Anaphylaxis and Proper Administration of Epinephrine Autoinjector Among Pediatric Residents	Melissa Cardenas-Morales, MD Allergy-Immunology Fellow	Vivian Hernandez-Trujillo, MD
Improving PICU Resident Education Curriculum	John Kotula, MD Niveditha Balakumar, MD Ped Critical Care Fellows	Michael Leoncio, DO
Improving Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis in the PICU	John Kotula, MD Ped Critical Care Fellow	Paul Martinez, MD
Standardization of Post-Operative Management After Fontan Procedure	Kamalvir Gill, MD Ped Cardiology Fellow	Jun Sasaki, MD
Arriving Patients Safely to the Pre-Op Area	Johnny Tackett, MD Ped Surgery Fellow	Cathy A. Burnweit, MD
Post-Operative Protocols and Discharge Instructions for Inpatient Plastic and Hand Surgery Patients	J. Simon Ivey, MD Craniofacial Plastic Surgery Fellow	Anthony Wolfe, MD Chad Perlyn, MD Aaron Berger, MD
Life is Better with Clean Hands	Ria Dindial, MD Ped Emergency Medicine Fellows	Barbara Pena, MD
Increasing Hydroxyurea Uptake in Children with Sickle Cell Disease	Ebaa Jastaniah, MD Ped Emergency Medicine Fellow	Vincenzo Maniaci, MD
Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (BRUEs)	Kathleen Murphy, DO Ped Hospital Medicine Fellow Amanda Cruz-Deweese, DO Ped Emergency Medicine Fellow Sobia Naeem, DO Ped Emergency Medicine Fellow Ria Dindial, MD Ped Emergency Medicine Fellow	Melissa Clemente, MD