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Dr. Nicholas Chmielewski, DNP,RN,CEN

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Nicholas Chmielewski is an Associate Director in BRG’s Healthcare Performance Improvement practice.  Nick is a results-driven leader with expertise within and outside the ED. His experience in opening a startup hospital combined with his project management experience with an informatics overhaul enables him to bring a unique skill for performance improvement consulting engagements. He excels in data analysis, collaborating with informatics professionals, and hardwiring processes that provide real-time objective feedback to staff regarding their performance. Separately, Nick has also managed successful clinical integration projects following an organization’s acquisition.

Prior to his tenure with BRG, Nick was a consulting manager with an international consulting company. One engagement included the implementation and refinement of an ED vertical care process in an 83,000 visit ED.  The team was successful in reducing the left without being seen rate from a baseline of 7.5% to 1.1%, and door to provider and overall discharge ED length of stay improved by 49 and 124 minutes respectively.  The team was also successful at improving the sepsis 3 and 6-hour compliance rate from a baseline of 26% to post-implementation of 88%.

Nick also has director-level and associate chief nursing officer service-line experience, interim assignments that involved responsibility over multiple departments and/or multiple sites.  One of Nick’s former clients summed up the engagement as, “One of the best decisions I made to refocus our emergency services on a better trajectory.”

Nick has served on many state and national committees with the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and multiple committees and task forces with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership. National ENA leadership positions include serving as the 2014 Resolutions Committee chairperson and the 2019 Advocacy Advisory Council chairperson. He was the primary driving force behind the 2012 passage of Ohio’s Healthcare Workforce Protection Act and has since developed substantive relationships with legislators to influence public policy.

Nick is a published author in the Journal of Emergency Nursing, Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, ENA Connection, Becker’s Hospital Review, VOICE of Nursing Leadership, Nurse Leader, and BRG Review. He is a Certified Emergency Nurse, a Certified Nurse Manager and Leader, Certified in Executive Nursing Practice, holds a Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certification, and is a lifetime fellow in the Academy of Emergency Nursing (AEN). He has served on the AEN Board of Directors since January 2018 and is the 2022 AEN Board Chairperson.

(last updated 1/1/2022)