Implementation of a Nurse-Led Family Meeting in a Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit

Huixin Wu¹, Dianxu Ren, Glenn R Zinsmeister+2

• ¹Huixin Wu, DNP, RN, CCRN, CCNS, is assistant professor, Department of Nursing, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also works as a clinical research coordinator in a Magnet designated hospital. She has over 20 years of critical care nursing experience. Her teaching experience includes instructing undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Dianxu Ren, PhD, MD, is associate professor and associate director for statistical support, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His area of research is biostatistics including longitudinal data analysis, measurement error and missing data problems, Bayesian analysis and statistical computation. He has 9 years of experience at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Glenn R. Zinsmeister, MSN, RN, is clinical director of Neuroscience ICU, Surgical ICU, and a Neuro step down unit, UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also serves as an Adjunct Clinical instructor at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has 30 years of nursing experience. Gretchen E. Zewe, PhD, RN, is assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her primary teaching responsibility focuses on the senior medical-surgical course and senior seminar. She also serves on doctoral committees for both PhD and DNP students. Her clinical expertise is in the field of neurology. Patricia K. Tuite, PhD, RN, CCNS, is assistant professor and coordinator of the clinical nurse specialist area of concentration, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently the coordinator for the Medical-Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist Area of Concentration. She teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels.