Karen Kirby

Dynamic healthcare professional with extensive experience in managing patient discharge processes, ensuring seamless transitions and continuity of care. Expertise in strategic planning and patient advocacy effectively addresses post-discharge needs, enhancing overall patient satisfaction. Proven ability to foster collaboration among multidisciplinary healthcare teams, driving improved patient outcomes and promoting a holistic approach to care delivery. Committed to leveraging skills and knowledge to support patients in their recovery journey while optimizing healthcare resources.

• Led a multidisciplinary team to design and implement the NICU comfort protocol to improve pain management for our patients.
• Used Microsoft Excel to develop discharge tracking spreadsheets.
• Collaborated with a team of four to improve parent sign up for My Chart during hospitalization.
• Collaborated with a team of three to design and implement a new process for training parents to infant CPR prior to discharge.
• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team on a quality improvement project to create a process to schedule NICU patients for an IDFC (Infant Development Follow-Up Clinic) at UWMC appointment prior to discharge.

• NICU Leadership and Governance Chair
• CCRN
• PALS
• AACN member
• NANN member
• WSNA member
• CCRN item writing committee, 2012 -volunteer
• King County Public Health Reserve Corps – volunteer
• International Children’s Heart Foundation- volunteer August, 2008, Odessa, Ukraine