Lindsay Vollmer started as a new grad in our ICU and has always demonstrated and provided compassionate, outstanding care to our veterans. She has worked very hard in advancing her professional practice and now serves as an outstanding and valued charge nurse. She is a leader within the facility and among her peers as a valued resource. It is common practice for her to go above and beyond for her veterans and peers and is easy to see the passion that Lindsay has for not only for her profession but for the population that she serves.
In addition to being an outstanding charge nurse, leader, and resource within ICU and the facility, Ms. Vollmer has implemented and pioneered several performance improvements and EBP projects that have greatly impacted our facility and the care of our veterans. Lindsay works tirelessly to move the nursing practice of the facility forward. She has been instrumental in the GetWell Network implementation. As a result of her tireless work as the champion for GWN, ICU is routinely the recipient of the GWN trophy as the outstanding performers for the facility. Additionally, Ms. Vollmer served as the driving force to implementing an Electrolyte Replacement Guidelines in the ICU. She formed and worked with a multidisciplinary team to author the Electrolyte Replacement Guidelines aimed at shortening the time to patient replacement and improve replacement efficacy, which will be implemented in the ICU in June. She has also implemented Quiet Time throughout with hospital in order to ensure a healing therapeutic environment for our veterans to improve patient and family satisfaction and help reduce delirium rates. Ms. Vollmer also serves on the Surgical Site Infection committee aimed at implementing evidence-based interventions to reduce our facility's SSI rates, which has been very successful.