Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Suzie Miltner joined UAB in 2012. She is also a Nurse Scientist at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. She has extensive clinical and leadership experience in military, private, and VA acute care settings as well as well as experience in nursing education in both academic and organizational settings. She has been a leader in driving quality improvement efforts in several health care organizations including ongoing work as a facilitator for VA improvement teams.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2023 Anosognosia for Hemiplegia and Falls After Stroke: A Prospective Correlational Study.  Rehabilitation Nursing Journal.  48:14-22. 2023
    2022 Assessing Southeastern Advanced Practice Registered Nurses’ Business and Operational Skill Sets.  Journal for Nurse Practitioners.  18:636-639. 2022
    2022 Utilization of Improvement Methodologies by Healthcare Quality Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  44:123-130. 2022
    2022 Modeling Patient Risk for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries during COVID-19: A Retrospective Study.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality.  37:162-167. 2022
    2022 Improving Obstuctive Sleep Apnea Care in the Postanesthesia Care Unit.  Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing.  37:40-43. 2022
    2022 Reducing hospital acquired pressure injury in a learning health center: Making the case for quality.  Learning Health Systems.  2022
    2021 Clinical Team Training and a Structured Handoff Tool to Improve Teamwork, Communication, and Patient Safety.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  43:365-373. 2021
    2021 Medication administration errors: A concept analysis 2021
    2021 Value of Interprofessional Education: The VA Quality Scholars Program.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  43:304-311. 2021
    2021 Why Competency Standardization Matters for Improvement: An Assessment of the Healthcare Quality Workforce.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  43:263-274. 2021
    2021 Innovations in evaluating nursing academic practice partnerships.  JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation.  51:347-353. 2021
    2021 Identifying Veterans in Your Practice: What Clinicians Need to Know.  Journal for Nurse Practitioners.  17:574-578. 2021
    2021 Learning During Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Incidence.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  43:137-144. 2021
    2021 Developing Leaders and Scholars in Health Care Improvement: The VA Quality Scholars Program Competencies.  Academic Medicine.  68-74. 2021
    2021 Nurse Burnout Predicts Self-Reported Medication Administration Errors in Acute Care Hospitals.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  43:13-23. 2021
    2020 Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader Role in the Veterans Health Administration.  Nursing Administration Quarterly.  44:257-267. 2020
    2020 The Heart Failure Journey Board to Discharge.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality.  35:282-286. 2020
    2020 Transitional Care Home Visits among Underserved Patients with Heart Failure.  Nursing Administration Quarterly.  44:268-279. 2020
    2020 Cost of Quality Pilot: A Systematic Methodology for Examining the Cost of Pressure Injury.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  42:72-82. 2020
    2020 Partnering to educate nurses in long-term care.  Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.  51:75-81. 2020
    2019 Introduction to the Special Issue on Healthcare Quality Initiatives for Veterans.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  41:65-66. 2019
    2019 Introduction to the Special Issue on Healthcare Quality Initiatives for Veterans.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  41:65-66. 2019
    2019 Strengthening universal health: Development of a nursing and midwifery education quality improvement toolkit 2019
    2018 Evaluation of a Distance Learning Curriculum for Interprofessional Quality Improvement Leaders.  American Journal of Medical Quality.  33:590-597. 2018
    2018 Mapping and Sustaining Leadership Development: An Innovation Academic Service Partnership.  JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation.  48:567-573. 2018
    2018 Increasing nurse-driven heparin infusion administration safety: A quality improvement initiative 2018
    2018 Increasing nurse-driven heparin infusion administration safety: A quality improvement initiative 2018
    2018 Trajectories of Community Mobility Recovery After Hospitalization in Older Adults.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  66:1399-1403. 2018
    2018 Relationships between Army nursing practice environments and patient outcomes.  Research in Nursing and Health.  41:131-144. 2018
    2018 Building DNP Essential Skills in Clinical Data Management and Analysis.  Nurse Educator.  43:37-41. 2018
    2018 Designing large-scale improvement: Using an academic-practice partnership to enhance care transitions.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  40:318-325. 2018
    2018 Proactive Risk Mitigation: Using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for Evaluating Vascular Access.  Journal for Healthcare Quality.  40:58-65. 2018
    2017 Integration of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses into Practice: Academic-Practice Partnership’s Role.  Nurse Educator.  42:S49-S52. 2017
    2017 Organisational strategies to implement hospital pressure ulcer prevention programmes: findings from a national survey.  Journal of Nursing Management.  25:457-467. 2017
    2017 The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index: An updated review and recommendations for use.  International Journal of Nursing Studies.  74:76-84. 2017
    2017 The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index: An updated review and recommendations for use.  International Journal of Nursing Studies.  74:76-84. 2017
    2017 Testing for Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): Reflections from Using QSEN as a Framework for RN Orientation.  Journal for Nurses in Professional Development.  33:180-184. 2017
    2017 Applying the PDSA Framework to Examine the Use of the Clinical Nurse Leader to Evaluate Pressure Ulcer Reporting.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality.  32:293-300. 2017
    2017 Deference to expertise: Making care safer.  Creative Nursing.  23:7-12. 2017
    2016 Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: Examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature.  BMJ Quality and Safety.  25:e7. 2016
    2016 Transforming veterans health care through academic-practice partnerships.  Nursing Outlook.  64:424-430. 2016
    2016 Identifying patterns in implementation of hospital pressure ulcer prevention programs a multisite qualitative study 2016
    2016 A Team Approach to Enhance Scholarship among Honors Students in Nursing.  Nursing Education Perspectives.  37:177-179. 2016
    2016 Promoting a Strategic Approach to Clinical Nurse Leader Practice Integration.  Nursing Administration Quarterly.  40:24-32. 2016
    2015 Caring for America's Veterans: The power of academic-practice partnership.  Nursing Administration Quarterly.  39:263-271. 2015
    2015 Work hazards for an aging nursing workforce.  Journal of Nursing Management.  23:803-812. 2015
    2015 Professional development needs of nurse managers.  Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing.  46:252-258. 2015
    2014 Exploring the frequency of blood pressure documentation in emergency departments.  Journal of Nursing Scholarship.  46:98-105. 2014
    2013 Equipping the nursing workforce to care for the unique needs of veterans and their families.  Nurse Leader.  11:45-48. 2013
    2013 Development of the Medical Intensive Care Unit Shift Report Communication Scale as a measure of nurses' perception of communication.  Nursing: Research and Reviews.  Volume 3:59-65. 2013
    2013 The future of quality improvement research.  Implementation Science.  8:s9. 2013
    2013 Development of the medical intensive care unit shift report scale as a measure of nurse perception of communication 2013
    2012 Incorporating quality and safety education into a nursing administration curriculum.  JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation.  42:478-482. 2012
    2012 Nurturing charge nurses for future leadership roles.  JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation.  42:461-466. 2012
    2012 Interprofessional Education in Action. The VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program.  Nursing Clinics of North America.  47:347-354. 2012
    2012 Developing a standardized tool to improve nurse communication during shift report.  Journal of Nursing Care Quality.  27:240-246. 2012
    2008 First Fridays: Celebrating the Nursing Profession.  Nurse Leader.  6:36-39. 2008
    2002 More than support: nursing interventions provided to women in labor..  Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing.  31:753-761. 2002
    2000 A competency-based orientation program for new graduate nurses.  JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation.  30:126-132. 2000
    2000 Identifying labor support actions of intrapartum nurses.  Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing.  29:491-499. 2000

    Book

    Year Title Altmetric
    2018 Fundamentals of Health Care Improvement: A Guide to Improving Your Patients Care 2018

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019 Leadership and team science.  133-145. 2019
    2016 Just culture and the impact on high reliability 2016
    2016 Just culture and the impact on high reliability 2016
    2014 Chapter 13: Hospital falls 2014
    2012 Chapter 6: Building on change: Concepts for improving any clinical process. 2012
    2012 Chapter 7: Implementing and sustaining change 2012

    Teaching Activities

  • NCL620 - Sys Population-based Care I (Fall Term 2011)
  • NEX701 - Culture Health QualitySafety (Spring Term 2021)
  • NEX701 - Culture Health QualitySafety (Spring Term 2022)
  • NEX701 - Culture Health QualitySafety (Spring Term 2023)
  • NEX704 - Hlthcare Tech Innovation (Fall Term 2022)
  • NEX739 - Exec Project Execution & Eval (Fall Term 2022)
  • NEX739 - Exec Project Execution & Eval (Spring Term 2023)
  • NEX739 - Exec Project Execution & Eval (Summer Term 2022)
  • NEX744 - Org Improvement & Program Eval (Fall Term 2020)
  • NEX744 - Org Improvement & Program Eval (Fall Term 2021)
  • NEX744 - Org Improvement & Program Eval (Summer Term 2022)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Fall Term 2011)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Fall Term 2012)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Fall Term 2013)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Fall Term 2014)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Spring Term 2015)
  • NHSA616 - Nursing Financial Management (Spring Term 2016)
  • NHSA617L - Nursing Financial Mgt Pract (Fall Term 2012)
  • NHSA631 - Adv Quality/Patient Safety (Spring Term 2015)
  • NHSA631 - Adv Quality/Patient Safety (Summer Term 2015)
  • NHSA631 - Adv Quality/Patient Safety (Summer Term 2016)
  • NHSA632 - Nursing/Health Sys Adm I (Fall Term 2015)
  • NHSA632 - Nursing/Health Sys Adm I (Summer Term 2012)
  • NHSA681L - Adv Qual/Patient Safety Pract (Spring Term 2013)
  • NHSA681L - Adv Qual/Patient Safety Pract (Spring Term 2014)
  • NHSA681L - Adv Qual/Patient Safety Pract (Spring Term 2014)
  • NHSA681L - Adv Qual/Patient Safety Pract (Summer Term 2015)
  • NQI702 - Clin Data Mgt and App for Impr (Fall Term 2022)
  • NQI702 - Clin Data Mgt and App for Impr (Fall Term 2022)
  • NRM798L - Research Immersion (Fall Term 2020)
  • NRM798L - Research Immersion (Summer Term 2021)
  • NUR002 - DNP Orientation (Spring Term 2023)
  • NUR456L - Leader Management Practicum (Spring Term 2014)
  • NUR456L - Leader Management Practicum (Summer Term 2014)
  • NUR517 - Leadership in Profess Nursing (Spring Term 2011)
  • NUR518L - Synthesis Practicum in Nursing (Spring Term 2011)
  • NUR610 - Hlth Care Sys for Adv Nur Prac (Summer Term 2020)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2015)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2016)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2016)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2018)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2018)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Fall Term 2018)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2016)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2016)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2018)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2018)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2022)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2022)
  • NUR700 - Clinical Data Mgmt & Analysis (Summer Term 2022)
  • NUR738L - Scholarly Project Development (Spring Term 2019)
  • NUR739L - Scholarly Practice Project (Spring Term 2019)
  • NUR790 - Independent Study in Nursing (Spring Term 2020)
  • NUR790 - Independent Study in Nursing (Spring Term 2020)
  • NUR790 - Independent Study in Nursing (Spring Term 2020)
  • NUR790 - Independent Study in Nursing (Spring Term 2022)
  • NUR790 - Independent Study in Nursing (Spring Term 2023)

    • Full Name

  • Rebecca Miltner