JoAnn Wolfson

Accomplished and visionary nursing executive with over 20 years of experience in critical care, healthcare administration, and transformational leadership. A Doctorate-prepared nursing leader with a proven track record of driving quality improvement initiatives, enhancing patient safety, and optimizing clinical workflows. Recognized for spearheading hospital-wide performance improvement projects, reducing hospital-acquired conditions, and fostering a culture of excellence.

• May 2025 Selected as an AACN Beacon Award Reviewer. Responsible for reviewing award applications through 2026.
• April 2025- Completed a hospital wide Rapid Response Team Performance Improvement Project in 2024. This led to changes in our Hospitalist and residency management and Chief Executive Officer approval for an additional cost center with which draw from for the creation of an APN led, critical care nurse driven Rapid Response Team 2025
• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Prevention Project 2024- 2025. Aim: Infection reduction and cost savings. VAP reduction of 80% in CCU and 70% in Step Down units.
• Nursing World Conference Podium Presenter, Vienna, Austria: A hospital’s 3 Year Journey: Sustaining an Outcome Driven Hospital Based Resuscitation Program, July 2025
• Nursing World Conference Selected Moderator for session entitled: Critical Care, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Analytics, July 2025.
• AACN Circle of Excellence Winner American Association of Critical Care Nurses presentation in May 2025
• 2025 Poster Presentation AACN NTI National Conference: Driving an Evidence-Based Culture of Change: One Unit’s 2 Year Journey to Zero Pressure Injuries. PI prevention resulted in over $1 million dollars in cost savings.
• 2025 Poster Presentation AACN NTI National Conference: 6 Month Pilot Study to Transition to Volume Based Tube Feeding Versus Hourly Rates to Improve Patient Outcomes. Performance Improvement Project completed in conjunction with our critical care dietician. Patients in the study received 96% of their feeding, protein, and calories as prescribed by our dietician. Glucose levels remained between 140 and 160g/dl and we had a 100% reduction in pressure injuries as compared to the previous 6 months before the study.
• 2025 AACN Sepsis Micro-Credential Certification: Increased Sepsis certification in 84% of all ICU staff resulting in overall reduction in sepsis fall outs in critical care.
• Member of AACN Jersey Shoreline Chapter 2024 to present
• NJ State Nurse Association: Member Nomination Committee appointed December 2024
• BEACON Award Winning Critical Care Unit- Silver Designation May 2024
• Winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurse Leadership in May 2024
• Podium Speaker at the Annual Doctor of Nursing Practice Conference June 2023 and June 2024
• Submitted 2 Abstracts and Posters for the annual conference American Heart Association Resuscitation Meeting November 2023 and November 2024
• Magnet Committee member, writer, and featured in 4 articles MMC and CS 2020, 2023, and featured in 4 articles for CS 5th Magnet Designation 2024
• Created and Implemented an In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest & Resuscitation Program, Monthly Code Review, and Monthly Resuscitation Committee Meeting 2021 to present
• Secured Meeting with the Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli, New Jersey Senator Vince Gopal and Senator Declan O’Scanlon to discuss Nurse Travel Agency pay hikes during the Pandemic, 2021.
• Aligned our facility with AHA Get with the Guidelines Data Collection for Benchmarking January 2023 and 2024
• Implemented the Role of Operations Nurse which is now identified as the CPR Coach by the AHA and developed a CPR Coach Competency
• 89% Reduction in Pressure Injuries from 2021 to 2022
• 100% reduction of PI in Step Down Unit, 88% Reduction of PI in CCU from 2022 to 2023
• Poster Presentation Transformational Leadership and Accountability Driving Pressure Injury Outcomes. WOCNext Conference 2022 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses and Poster presentation at Morristown Medical Center Research Day 2022
• Podium Speaker October 2023 Atlantic Health System Annual Research Day: Pressure Injury Reduction
• Featured in New Jersey Nurse Magazine Honoring Heroic NJ Nurses during the Pandemic July 2020 Edition
• Completed Doctoral Project Improving Emergency Department Throughput- Project led to 15-minute Reduction of Throughput Times from the Emergency Department to the ICU and the Emergency Department to the Medical Surgical Department December 2019
• Developed ICU Liberation and ABCDEF Magnet Project for critical care Hopewell and RMC 2018
• Winner of the Daisy Team Award 2018 Hopewell ICU
• Member of the New Jersey Nurse Mission to Texas for Hurricane Harvey Relief August 2017

CCRN: Critical Care Certified

Achieves measurable results that validate the impact of individual leadership contributions to organizational excellence, including influencing and mentoring. Models a healthy work environment: skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making and meaningful recognition. Managers demonstrate support of appropriate staffing and authentic leadership. Provides data to reflect transformative thinking, structure and processes to address challenges and remove barriers.