on “Preparing the Undergraduate Student and Faculty to Use Quality Improvement” in Practice to Improving Quality, Second Edition, by Meisenheimer. She has written several articles, including “Chest X‐Ray Interpretation” and many articles on quality improvement. Throughout most of her career, she has taught nursing at the university level. Pat has traveled extensively in the United States, Canada, China, Europe, and Mexico, and has been licensed and worked part‐time throughout her career in Emergency Departments or other patient care units in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, Oklahoma, and Philadelphia. She currently lives with her husband, Ron, part of the year in Oak Lawn, IL and part of the year in Meyers, FL. Pat may be contacted at [email protected].
JANICE TAZBIR
Janice Tazbir earned an Associate Degree in Science in Nursing at Purdue University Calumet beginning her career as an RN at the age of 19. She furthered her education, earning a Bachelor's Degree and then a Master's Degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care. Her clinical nursing background is in critical care nursing and she has worked the entirety of her career, currently in critical care at the University of Chicago Medicine in the Level 1 Trauma ICU. Her husband, Johnny, and daughter, Jade, are RNs as well, working at the University of Chicago Medicine. Jade is a newly graduated RN and is the primary chapter author for Chapter 29 in this text. Another daughter, Joule, is a 2020 graduate of the University of Alabama (with a 4.0 GPA) in Accounting. Janice has maintained a clinical practice as staff nurse her entire nursing career. Her teaching career has been at Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana from 1997 to 2019, where she has taught advanced medical surgical nursing, pathophysiology, critical care, capstone in nursing, care of the older adult, physical assessment, and NCLEX‐RN preparation. Janice attained the status of Professor of Nursing in 2011 at Purdue University Northwest. She was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award at Purdue University Northwest in 2006. She has been a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) since 2012. Janice is a member of many professional organizations including Sigma Theta Tau, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. She has published numerous refereed articles and book chapters over her career. She has presented locally and nationally, authored/edited four previous books including: Clinical Companion to Accompany Contemporary Medical Surgical Nursing. Tazbir, J. (2007), Medical Surgical Atlas (First Edition). Tazbir, J., & Keresztes, P. (2008), Clinical Companion to Accompany Contemporary Medical Surgical Nursing (Second Edition). Tazbir, J. (2010) and Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management (Third Edition). Kelly, P., & Tazbir, J. (2014).
Janice publishes on current topics in critical care* (see selected publications).
She teaches NCLEX reviews for Evolve Testing & Remediation/Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI), Houston, Texas as a Live Review Instructor and has been a Peer Advisor and Consultant, is an expert on NCLEX and HESI exams, including test writing, test analysis, teaching faculty regarding NCLEX, and presenting on NCLEX* (see selected presentation). She currently is a Consultant for Anderson Continuing Education in Sacramento, California as well as a staff nurse at University of Chicago Medicine.
Janice's administrative and committee involvement includes serving as past Undergraduate Program Coordinator at Purdue University Northwest, Hammond Campus. In her over 20 years of progressive teaching and administrative contributions to the PNW, she has made many key contributions that include (but are not limited to): appointed to Faculty Senate for multiple terms, Chairperson for multiple committees, including Faculty Affairs and Curriculum and Educational Policy and the Ad Hoc Promotion and Tenure Committee. She represented faculty in key University strategic initiatives such as mentoring, evaluations, promotion and tenure, strategic planning, experiential learning, first year experience, and unification. She was a key leader for Purdue University Northwest College of Nursing initiatives including NCLEX success and preparation, mentoring faculty and students, HESI coordination, testing center collaboration, testing, strategic planning and Purdue University Northwest College of Nursing unification efforts, where Purdue University Calumet and Purdue Westville combined universities as well as colleges of nursing.
Her passions include her family, traveling, and yoga. She has traveled the world from Egypt to Iceland and continues to travel and grow. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and practices yoga on and off the mat. Contact her at [email protected]
Selected publications:
*Tazbir, J., & Wickheim, M. (2014). Hands when you want them, staffing when you need it. Critical Care Nurse. doi: http://dx.dio.org/10.4037/ccn2014902.
*Tazbir, J. (2012). Sepsis Early Recognition and Treatment in the Medical‐Surgical Setting. July/August 2012, MEDSURG Nursing.
*Keresztes, P., & *Tazbir, J. (2005). CSF drainage after thoracic aneurysm repair. Program and Proceedings, National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition.
*Keresztes, P., & Tazbir, J. (2005). The PFA‐100: Analysis and interpretation of a platelet function measurement. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 20, 405–407.
*Tazbir, J., Marthaler, M., Moredich, C., & Keresztes, P. (2005). Decompressive hemicraniectomy with duraplasty: A treatment for large‐volume ischemic stroke. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 37, 194–197.
*Tazbir, J. (2004). Sepsis overview and the role of protein c. Critical Care Nurse, 24, 40–45.
Selected presentations:
*Tazbir, J., Landrum, J., & Cooke, C. (2016). Acing the Test: Creating a Testing Committee Nursing Education Conference in the Rockies Breckenridge, CO.
*Davis, J., Blodgett, N., Garwood, B., Ott, V., & Tazbir, J. (2016). Passing the NCLEX—What's the Evidence. Queen's Joanna Briggs Collaboration Conference, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
*Davis, J., Tazbir, J., & Garwood, B. (2016). NCLEX—looking beyond passing. The Joanna Briggs Institute 20th Anniversary Conference Adelaide, Australia.
Tazbir, J., & *Zweighart, E. (2016). HESI Over Time: What the Research Demonstrates and Applications to Improving Student Outcomes. Evolve Elsevier. Las Vegas, NV.
Tazbir, J. (2014, March). HESI implementation throughout the curriculum: Using Teamwork & Collaboration to Improve Outcomes. Elevate the Outcomes with Evolve, Evolve Elsevier. Las Vegas, NV.
*Tazbir, J. (2011). Our Evolve experience at PUC. Hesi User Conference. Oakbrook, IL
Acknowledgments
A book such as this requires great effort and the coordination of many people with various areas of expertise. We would like to thank all of the contributors for their time and effort in sharing their knowledge gained through years of experience in both the clinical and academic setting. All of the contributing authors worked within tight time frames to accomplish their work. Special thanks go to Corinne Haviley, RN, MS, PhD, Beth L. A. Richard RN MSN C‐EFM, and Carolyn Ruud, DNP, RN, CNE®cl, CCRN, CVRN ‐BC, SCRN, Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, Geneva, Illinois, for their help in developing some of the nursing information for the Appendix. Jane Woodruff McDaniel, Hobart, Indiana, supported the process with her computer expertise.
We thank the reviewers for their time spent critically reviewing the manuscript and providing the valuable
