Clinical Nurse Leader
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Erica Leonard, RN-BC, CNL, CIC
Clinical Nurse Leader, Infection Prevention
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Erica Leonard is a Clinical Nurse Leader embedded in Infection Prevention at Darmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She is also an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Colby Sawyer College. She is passionate about reducing hospital - acquired infections and improving patient safety. Erica has been the CAUTI Committee Co - Lead for the last four year and has taken part in many related improvement initiatives. Currently she is working with a team of stakeholders to restructure the hospital based Safety Champion program, which has been shown to improve nurse engagment and patient safety. Also, she is actively reviewing the process for apparent cause analysis for all hospital aquired infections that occur.