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Professional Achievements:

MARY D. STILL MSN APRN ACNS ANP-BC CCRN FCCM

mary.still@emoryhealthcare.org              

Telephone: 678-576-1498

5759 Chisholm Trail

Lilburn, GA 30247

EDUCATION

BSN Georgia State University 1976

MSN Georgia State University 1982

Post Masters Certification adult health Clinical Nurse Specialists Licensed 2013- 2028

Post Master’s Degree, Emory University Adult Nurse Practitioner Licensed 12/96 – 2026

Certification: CCRN (1983-2023)

ACLS: Instructor/ Affiliate Faculty American Heart Association 1991- 2022

FCCS Instructor: Society of Critical Care Medicine 2006-2013

Clinical Experience:

Emory University Hospital

• Clinical Nurse Specialist Surgery/ Critical Care Surgery, Transplantation 1988-2023
• Coordination / leadership of EHC System Initiative: Sepsis 2014- 2023
• Molecular Adsorbent Recycling System (MARS) coordinator, development of protocol & procedure for use
• Coordinates and works with team to develop protocols and procedures related to CRRT training and bedside management (EUH)
• Collaborative management/consultation with healthcare team of complex patients to include, ventilator dependent patients, hemodynamically unstable patients, liver transplant pre and post op, severe sepsis, and patients having a variety of surgical interventions
• Training and ongoing education of new and experienced ICU staff
• EHC Sepsis system coordinator 2017-2023

Gwinnett Medical Center

• Trauma/ Neurosurgical Clinical Nurse Specialists/ Coordinator 1985-1988
• Responsible for: Development and Implementation of Trauma Nurse Program and Trauma Service. Development and implementation of Head Injury Protocol

Grady Memorial Hospital

• Clinical Nurse Specialist 1982-1985
• Responsible for: Neurosurgery ICU, 28 bed Burn unit, 10 bed Surgical/Trauma ICU and Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit

Grady Memorial Hospital Head Nurse/Manager Surgical/ Trauma ICU 1979-1982

• Responsible for: 10 Bed surgical ICU: Post Cardio thoracic Surgery patients/ Trauma and general surgery patients

Teaching Experience:

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing—Emory University

Adjunct Faculty 1990- 2021: teaching senior nursing student and ANP program

Topics:  Publications/ Poster Presentation/ lectures

Publication:

• McPeake et al: AJCC AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE, March 2021, Volume 30, No. 2 BENEFITS OF PEER SUPPORT FOR INTENSIVE CARE UNIT SURVIVORS: SHARING EXPERIENCES, CARE DEBRIEFING, AND ALTRUISM

• Multisystem Failure Chapter, Gastrointestinal System Overview Chapter: Manual of Critical Care 8th edition,2 chapters in Critical Care manual to be published Jan 2022

• Mikkelsen, Still,  Anderson et al; Society of Critical Care Medicine's International Consensus Conference on Prediction and Identification of Long-Term Impairments After Critical Illness  September 2020  Critical Care Medicine 48(11)

• Prediction Models for Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Impairments after Critical Illness: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal: Haines KJ et al. Critical Care Medicine, 30 Nov 2020, 48(12):1871-1880

• MARS: Liver Dialysis Procedure; AACN Procedure Manual 7th edition 2017

• MARS: New Frontier in Management Acute Liver Failure American Nurse Today March 2014 Vol9 No.3.

• Comparison of circuit patency and exchange rates between 2 different continuous renal replacement therapy machines: Seyed Amirhossein Razavi, MD, Mary D. Still, MSN APRN ACNS CCRN, Sharon J. White, MSN, CNN, FNP-BC, NP-C Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, Michael J. Connor Jr., MD, Journal of Critical Care November 2013 29(2). 

• The Turn Team: A Novel Strategy for Reducing Pressure Ulcers in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Still MD, Cross LC, Dunlap M, Rencher R, Larkins ER, Carpenter DL, Buchman TG, Coopersmith CM. J Am Coll Surg. 2013 Jan 10

Poster Presentation:

• Success with Implementation of a System-Based Sepsis management Program: SCCM Conference January 2017
• Developing a Molecular Absorbent Recirculating System Team in the Surgical/Transplant ICU SCCM Conference January 2017
• Severe Sepsis Initiative: Early Screening Impacts Outcome Emory Healthcare Quality Conference Atlanta Ga. 2014
• Novel strategy to prevent pressure ulcers in the Surgical ICU, SCCM Conference 2012
• Abstract #632 Association among Initial Central Venous Oxygen Saturation Levels, Initial Blood Lactate Levels and Outcome in Septic Patients Treated with EGD Therapy: Scientific Award SCCM 2013
• European SCCM: Medication administration via alternative routes: 2006/ Barcelona, Spain
• Sepsis: Developing a comprehensive sepsis program across a 4 hospital system.

Southeastern regional Critical care Summit May 2017

Presentation

• Solid organ transplantation : Overview in Management Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing N430 September 2021
• Sepsis and septic shock and MODS 2021: N430Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing July and September 2021
• Acute Abdomen Causes and management; N430Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing March 2021
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses: Region VI Conference:  The Face of Sepsis:    Atlanta, Georgia, September 12, 2016
• Severe Sepsis and Complex Paradigm Nell Hodgkin’s Woodruff School of Nursing 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018

• Controversies in the Management of sepsis Round tables discussion : Southeast  Critical Care Summit 2014

• Sepsis/ MSOF in the Critically ill: Review of current practice CCRN Review Course 2007 & 2009, & 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019
• Hemodynamic monitoring / Fluid management Workshop; Southeastern Critical Care Summit, Atlanta Ga. 2014 & 2016, 2018
• Targeted temperature management in post cardiac arrest AACN Southeast Regional  Critical Care Conference  March 2012
• Severe Sepsis and MSOF, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Advanced Acute Care NP Program 2008 & 2009 & 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018
• Critical Care Management of Acute Hepatic failure: Onset to Transplant and beyond. Liver Transplantation Workshop Emory Healthcare 2008, 2009, & 2010
• Chronic/ Acute Liver failure in the Critically Ill AACN Regional Symposium September 2010
• What’s in and What’s Out of the GI System, Advanced Critical Care Course 2004-2010, 2013 &2015

Research

Antibiotic Administration Before Bacterial Culture Collection Reduces Positivity Rate within Minutes: A Multicenter Cohort Study Murphy D, Babiker A, Overton, E, Still, M, Steinberg J, Martin G, Jacob J. (2019).. SSRN Electronic Journal 10.2139/ssrn.3506180

Vital Signs as Predictors of Outcome 24 Hours after Medical

Emergency Team Activation: Primary Investigator: Mary D Still RN MSN APRN-BC CCRN Co Investigators: Carolyn Holder RN MN APRN- BC CCRN , Courtenay Wannamaker RN MSN APRN- BC, Vicki Morelock RN MN CCRN, Jim McMurtry RN MSN APRN-BC, Kimberly Graham RN MSN,  Melissa Gordon RN MSN APRN-BC,  Ellen Meyer RN MSN, Michael Sterling MD, Susan E. Shapiro RN PhD FAAN

April 2018 Journal of Nursing Quality

Team Based Performance Improvement Protocol Increased Patient Satisfaction

Participation in study evaluating the impact of nurse driven model of care for improvement in patient Satisfaction.

Sponsored by: Health Resources and Services Administration, Nurse Education for Practice, Quality and Retention through Inter-professional Collaborative Practice Grant UD7HP25046 $50,000 Grant for this 3 year study.

Mary D Still Co Investigator and presenter for the abstract at SCCM 2015

HONORS & REWARDS

• Fellowship American Academy of Nursing 2019
• March of Dimes Critical Care Nurse of the Year 2010
• Award: 2013 Annual Scientific Award Abstract #632 “Association among initial Central Venous Oxygen Saturation Levels, Initial Blood Lactate Levels and Outcome in Septic Patients treated with Early Goal Directed Therapy”
• Fellowship in the Academy of Critical Care Medicine 2017
• Magnet Nurse of the Year: Transformational Leadership ANCC 2018

Emory Healthcare/Emory University Hospital Involvement:

• Sepsis: EHC System Team Leader 2014-current
• Critical Care Executive Committee 1998-2021
• Resuscitation Committee 1993-2021
• EHC Sedation Committee 2012-2021
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee 1989-2021
• Nursing Research Council 2010-2021

Professional Involvement/Activities:

• Society of Critical Care Medicine THRIVE Collaborative 2015-2018
• Co-Chair: THRIVE Initiative 2017-2020( responsible for 3 Consensus Conferences 2018-2020)
• Preceptor: College of Nursing University of Colorado: Anschutz Medical Campus 2018- 2021
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses 1985- 2021
• Society of Critical Care Medicine 2008 - 2021
• ITNS Transplantation Nurses Association 2007-2020
• Sigma-Theta Tau National Honor Society 1990-2016
• Program Committee Southeastern Regional Critical Care Summit 2016- 2018 Atlanta, Georgia

Mds/ 2021

Work History

Education History

Ga state University
June, 1976

Associations

Atlanta Area Chapter of the AACN

Georgia Nurses Association