Neurotrauma Program

Leilani C. Nutt was born and raised in Honolulu. She received her education from the West Coast University, California for her Masters in Healthcare Administration (2014) and from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu for her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1994). She has been at The Queen’s Medical Center (QMC), Honolulu since 1992. She started as a Nursing Assistant and became a Medical Surgical Float Pool RN in 1994. In 2000, she expanded her nursing experience by becoming an RN in the Neuroscience ICU (NSICU). She has been involved with many unit committees (Unit Council, Critical Care Nursing Council, Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, and MRSA Task Force) during her years at QMC; her contributions have assisted the NSICU and other departments to improve nursing practice to become more efficient and provide safe care for the patients. She was the Lead for the Workflow Sub Committee for the T5DH NSICU Expansion Project. With a growing Neuro Trauma population, the need for more NSICU beds was inevitable. In 2016, the QMC NSICU was selected to be a part of a national collaboration with The Society of Critical Care Medicine for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research in the ICU (PCORI). She was chosen to represent the QMC NSICU at the national launch meeting in Chicago and was also the lead for the QMC NSICU PCORI Team. The team created and developed an admission video, which was named Laulima because its meaning to ‘cooperate, helping hands’, as part of PCORI. Since it’s implementation, the Laulima admission video has shown to help the NSICU patients and their loved ones to gain more understanding of what the NSICU is all about. In 2017, she was promoted to be the Clinical Operations Manager for the NSICU; she currently maintains that role.