Doanh Ly is the SSF Stroke Coordinator and Clinical Nurse Specialist for Critical Care. She works closely with staff education, policies, rolling out of new processes, and critical care-related practice. She provides guidance and implementation of new evidence-based practice, compliance issues, and accreditation-related issues/concerns. Doanh brings institutional knowledge and critical care evidence-based knowledge into our practice. For example, she helped with the new Troponin Assay roll-out and the Sepsis 2.0 LUCAS Compression Device, to name a few. She also does the Annual Critical Care Skills Training for all ICU staff and the ICU Leadership Team.

Doanh is very competent, knowledgeable, and easy to work with. She is very visible and easily accessible not only to the ICU but to the entire Patient Care Services. She constantly rounds on our high-risk patients, checks in with ICU staff and the Leadership Team, and communicates with staff and the multi-disciplinary team. If there are any concerns, she often lets me know so that we can take corrective actions and share info with the nurses. We collaborate and work together addressing clinical practices such as IV Titration, Quality Metrics, compliance with protocols, etc., and we work collaboratively to put actions in place for corrective actions. We also work together in improving clinical outcomes and tracking Code Blue, Rapid Response, Stroke Narrator, Code Blue Narrator, etc., and ensuring that the ICU clinical practice is aligned with the Regional and local leadership expectations.

Doanh is awesome and amazing to work with. She is straightforward, consistent, and dependable. I know she has the qualities of an expert clinical nurse specialist, advanced practice, and doctoral-prepared nurse, and she truly influences and elevates clinical practice in the intensive care unit. We are very fortunate to have her as part of the ICU team. Her work with Covid patients/proning protocol, stroke coordinator, and critical care clinical nurse specialist is vital, highly stressful, time-consuming, and requires a lot of preparation. I hope that she achieves a work-life balance that will keep her healthy and happy and have personal satisfaction with her role in the facility.