Daniele Ottinger
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Augusta Medical Center
USA
Dr. Daniele Ottinger has been a registered nurse since 2001 and a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner since 2005. She holds a Masters in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from the University of South Alabama. In her years, her clinical practice has evolved into a passion for research and authorship with several published manuscripts. She has presented nationally at conferences in both podium and poster formats. Currently, she continues to foster this passion as a guest editor for Neonatal Network. She has helped lead multiple initiatives for nursing practice changes, penned multiple guidelines and protocols, and has mentored numerous RN’s and NP’s through their own research development, practice change implementations and publication.
Some of the key improvement efforts she has led have include, but are not limited to:
• Chair of the Evidenced Based Practice Committee. Where she led and fostered several unit specific along with hospital wide practice change initiatives
• Reducing noise in the NICU by utilizing a teleconferencing camera. This IRB approved project demonstrated noise reduction that did not compromise communication nor patient care. Someday, she would like to implement Skype or Face Time for daily rounds to include families who cannot participate in the daily discussions.
• Her doctoral thesis looked at Reducing Hypothermia in the premature infant. She created a Polyethylene Preemie Wrap that successfully maintained the infant’s temperature without impeding access to the patient for medical intervention.
• Her most recent study looked at reducing skin degradation associated with EKG leads. Postulating whether the dermatitis was infectious versus contact dermatitis, she used ATP testing to demonstrate a higher than acceptable ATP level after only 3 days of lead placement. This study helped develop a new standard in nursing care for neonates where EKG leads were changed every 3 days to help reduce these significant skin degradations associated with prolonged EKG exposure to one site.
