Biography

Barb Nickel, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CRNI is a clinical nurse specialist for CHI Health, Center for Clinical Practice and UNMC CON Instructor for PCC3 and 4 for the West Nebraska Division. She has a long history in critical care as a bedside clinician. Now as a CNS, she works to improve patient outcomes throughout the CHI Health Division with specific focus on Sepsis and Vascular Access. She has published several articles on vascular access management in critical care. She was a member and co-author of the Infusion Nurses Society Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, 8th edition and is now chair of the newly forming INS Standards Committee that will revised the Standards for publication of the 9th edition in 2024.

Research

Principle Investigator for IRB approved research study: A comparison of the Fast Track Scoring Protocol with a Standard Post-Operative Protocol for monitoring post-operative observations in selected inpatient populations. Approved 4/17, concluded 5/18.

Research Interests

• Vascular Access
• CLABSI reduction
• Nursing work flows, improving patient outcomes through improved efficiency

Publications

Kleidon T, Nickel B, Meyer B, et al. JVA, Response to: “Should we use a patient’s port as the preferred intravenous route rather than inserting an additional venous access?”, JVA. 8/2/21, https://doi.org/10.1177/11297298211034944

Nyhus, J. “Drug diversion in healthcare”, B. Nickel interview contribution, American Nurse Journal, 2021, 15(5): 26-30.

Nickel, B. Does the Midline Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Have a Place in Critical Care? Critical Care Nurse, accepted for publication, Ref.: Ms. No. CCN-D-21-00002R1.

Gorski, L. A., Hadaway, L., Hagle, M.E., Broadhurst, D., Clare, S., Kleidon, T., Meyer, B.M., Nickel, B., Rowley, S., Sharpe, E., Alexander, M. (2021). Journal of Infusion Nursing, 44(suppl 1):S1-S224. doi:10.1097/NAN.0000000000000396

Nickel, B. “Hiding in plain sight: The burden of peripheral intravenous catheter infections”, Critical Care Nurse, accepted for publication, Ref.: Ms. No. CCN-D-19-00037R1

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Service

Community service

Recognition

2020 UNMC, Faculty Daisy Award for 2019-2020 school year

2016 Infusion Nurses Society, INS Member of the Year

2016 CHI Health St. Francis, Non-Clinical Nurse of the Year