Pressure Injury Education for the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI): Where we are today

Ann Marie Nie earned her PhD and is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a specialty in wound, ostomy and continence care.  Due to her work in wound care in the pediatric population, she is a WOCN fellow. She is currently employed at Dayton Children’s Hospital as a Wound NP and Pressure Injury Preventionist. Since 2006, she has strived to increase awareness of the difference in the ages of pediatric patients for pressure injury prevention. She was instrumental in creating pediatric pressure injury prevention program at 3 pediatric hospitals. She speaks nationally and internationally in pediatric PI prevention measures, wound care, ostomy and neonatal skin.  She has performed research on risk factors for PI development in all ages of pediatric patients from extremely premature infants to age 21 and is continuing her research to showcase PI preventions measures across the age spectrum. 

Michele is a self-employed wound care consultant.  She is a Physical Therapist and holds certifications as a clinical wound specialist from the American Board of Wound Management and as a Fellow in the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists.  Her expertise and dedication extend to various leadership roles within NPIAP, where she currently serves as President-Elect on the Board of Directors. Over the past 11 years she has contributed to multiple committees, including the Education Committee, Research Committee, Standards Committee, and Emerging Leaders Program. Her commitment to advancing wound care is further exemplified by her role as Vice Chair of the Support Surface Standards Initiative (S3I) committee.  Michele has authored numerous resources for NPIAP most notably the Root Cause Analysis/OR Toolkit 3.0 and published works for S3I on the clinical relevance of support surface tests.