Nancy Szwec Czarnecki

Dr. Czarnecki was both the first woman to matriculate to and the first woman to graduate from Jefferson Medical College. She first learned that Jefferson was accepting women students from a newspaper notice while still at Temple University. After graduating Alpha Omega Alpha she continued her training in family medicine at Nazareth Hospital in Philadelphia. She then went on to form a family practice with her husband in Port Richmond. Upon leaving private practice in the early 1990’s Dr. Czarnecki became the Senior Medical Director at Prudential Healthcare and later the Patient Management Medical Director for Aetna’s Northeast Region. Over the years Dr. Czarnecki has remained very involved with Jefferson. She has served as Chairperson of the Alumni Trustee Committee, the Career Day Committee, and the Women’s Forum Committee. In 1989 she became the first woman to serve as President of the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Association, and in 2003 she joined the University Board of Trustees as an Alumni Trustee. She has also been the reunion chairman for the class of 1965 since 1970. Dr. Czarnecki has been retired since 2008 and spends her time divided between Florida and New Jersey.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/oral_histories/1011/thumbnail.jp

Supporting Job-Seekers Experiencing Homelessness: Best Practices for CoC & Workforce Board Engagement

The slides are from a presentation given at the Michigan Summit to End Homelessness in September 2016

Sepsis

We are examining the effectiveness of sepsis screening at triage. Sepsis requires critical thinking to identify and treat appropriately, but it is also imperative for patient outcomes to do so in a timely manner. It has not been answered because the icon is new to the department and has not been fully investigated. One would correlate utilization of the sepsis icon with diagnosis of sepsis and time to antibiotics and fluid. In Adult patients coming into ED triage, will early identification of sepsis at initial triage assessment utilizing a sepsis icon on the First Net system verses no icon utilized improve the 3 hour septic bundle compliance for better patient outcomes? We will compare data from prior to the sepsis icon roll out to date after. The key impact to our research is to decrease mortality related to sepsis.https://scholarlycommons.libraryinfo.bhs.org/nursing_artof_innovation/1005/thumbnail.jp