Dr. Margo A. Halm Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, United States

United States

Aliso Viejo, Ca

By unveiling available scientific evidence, the intention of the regular column 'Clinical Evidence Review' is to support, refute, or shed light on health care practices where little evidence exists. Examples of best practice descriptions include:• Techniques for drawing blood cultures• Chlorhexidine bathing to reduce surgical site infection• Instilling normal saline during suctioning• Using Trendelenburg position for hypotension• Drawing labs from peripheral IVs• Music interventions to reduce pain/anxiety• Acupressure to alleviate postoperative nausea and vomiting• Relaxation techniques to reduce anxiety in cardiac patients• Local anesthetics to reduce pain with IV insertion

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon

Salem Oregon

• Facilitated restructure of shared leadership system, including addition of a ‘Shared Leadership Day’ that encompassed broader engagement and collaboration of staff and leaders in all housewide council functions, as well as provision of formal leadership. education to build capability of frontline staff in owning their professional practice• Led organization to 2nd Magnet designation. in 2015• Collaborated with team of clinicians and Lean specialists to define how improvement models (Lean/QI, EBP, research) intersect to provide greater organizational clarity about use of various tools/techniques in continuous improvement work• Supported design, analysis and dissemination of 20+ nurse-led or interprofessional research projects that generated new knowledge to improve clinical practice • Led interprofessional EBP Council in conducting an EBP Readiness assessment and developed a strategic plan to increase EBP implementation by clinicians• Founded an inter-professional Integrative Therapies Committee to introduce evidence-based integrative modalities to enhance the patient experience and employee self-care

Washington D.C.

Served on a 21-member panel who reviewed and prioritized health care topics ready for comparative effectiveness research. The knowledge generated from this research will allow patients, caregivers and providers to make the best care decisions. Thus, PCORI's work will ultimately improve the health and lives of Americans.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Key contributor for successful Magnet document submission that led to our Magnet designation in 2009• Coached and mentored many clinicians in the design and execution of clinical research studies that generated new knowledge for practice• Created an EBP Fellowship Program to mentor nurse fellows on EBP projects • Co-chaired system-wide nursing research council that laid foundation for evidence-based nursing practice across the Allina Health System• Created practice protocol to support families who choose to be present during invasive procedures or resuscitative events, and prepared members of code team to serve as “Family Presence Facilitators"• Served as site lead for IHI’s TCAB on “Reducing Harm with Falls” where a model medical unit ran rapid cycles to test effectiveness of interventions to reduce injury from falls• Designed educational program to prepare rapid response team to reduce failure to rescue

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led IHI’s Patient Safety Collaborative in adult intensive care to introduce patient safety interventions in the critical care division to mitigate human factors implicated in adverse events • As NDNQI site coordinator, facilitated quality initiatives to improve nurse sensitive indicators (falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTI, RN satisfaction) across the organization• Founded Nursing Research Council and created structures whereby nursing staff critically appraised evidence on important practice issues and then disseminated evidence with recommended changes in practice standards• Created woman’s cardiac primary prevention clinic that later became the model for the Women’s Cardiovascular Program within the Allina Health System• Participated in IHI’s Breakthrough Series on Cardiac Surgery, and Adult Critical Care to test practice changes that led to breakthrough improvements

Designed and implemented a primary prevention intervention in a large Metropolitan heart hospital to teach, guide and counsel women about strategies to reduce their unique cardiovascular risk factor profile.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Forerunner in patient-and-family centered care• Developed model for group support of family members of critically ill/injured patients• Developed critical care patient satisfaction survey based on findings of qualitative research• Fierce advocate for liberal/open visiting hours in the age of 'restrictive visiting hours' in ICUs/ hospitals

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Provided high tech and high touch holistic care to critically ill/injured patients and family members: High risk general surgery; neurosurgery/neurotrauma; cardiovascular surgery; multiple trauma; and solid organ transplant (kidney/liver/pancreas/heart) patients

Phd, Nursing

Ma, Nursing

Bsn, Nursing

Associate’S Degree, Nursing

High School Diploma