Feasibility to Organizational Implementation: Heat and Moisture Exchangers for Tracheostomized Patients

May 14th, 2024

This lecture will explore one means by which to translate a patient improvement idea from feasibility to organizational implementation. This will be demonstrated using a heat and moisture exchanger for tracheostomized patients that was introduced at SHC by means of a Clinical Effective Leadership Training (CELT) program. During and after CELT, I spearheaded movement towards organizational implementation utilizing implementation science. My intent is to empower others with strategies to translate evidence into practice.

Glenn Croft

Glenn Croft, MSN, RN, CVRN, AGCNS-BC is an Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) with the Nursing Professional Practice team at Stanford Medicine |Healthcare specializing in otolaryngology, plastic surgery and chronic pain management. In his role, he helps to oversee the translation of evidence into practice for nursing care as part of the professional practice team. Glenn began his nursing career in Austin, Texas where he worked in a mixed bone marrow transplant and surgical oncology unit and decided to continue his career in post-anesthesia care units in the central Texas region. Previously, before working with Stanford, Glenn was a peri-operative Clinical Nurse Specialist at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, CA.