Susan Walsh
Clinical Associate Professor
College of Nursing
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Areas of Expertise
- Adolescents
- Community-based Solutions
- Curriculum Development
- Infants
- Interprofessional Collaborations
- Juvenile Justice
- Naloxone
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- Patients
- Prevention
- Primary care
Previously Completed Project/Research
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome DNP project at UIH NICU: Non-Pharmacological Care of Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Category: Education & Training
Goal: Using the Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) Tool facilitates focused nursing care on function-based assessments and prioritizes non-pharmacological interventions. Use of the ESC Tool has shown less pharmacologic treatment and decreased length of stay, as well as many secondary findings.
Research Currently in Progress
Facilitator and mentor of ongoing community based health promotion/health education projects.
Category: Community-based Health Promotion
Facilitator and mentor of ongoing community based health promotion/health education projects for graduate level nursing, pharmacy, medicine, dentistry students. Target population: youth residents and staff at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center. Program topics: opioids, signs of overdose, naloxone. use and effects of naloxone rescue, availability/administration of naloxone, consequences of assisting with a naloxone rescue etc.