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Susan Walsh

Clinical Associate Professor

College of Nursing

Contact

Office Phone:

847-436-0851

About

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.