Chienhui Chiang - Profile

Administrative Offices:
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
4 Rhoads Pavilion
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Administrative Telephone: 215-285-5758

Contact Information (internal use only)

Chienhui.Chiang@uphs.upenn.edu

Chienhui Chiang is fascinated by the combination of the nursing spirit and the medical aspects of nurse practitioners. She is interested in how NP roles can improve the quality of care in clinical practices. Her clinical background includes cardiac nursing and critical care. Currently she is excited to explore the field of abdominal organ transplant.

Education/Training

Chienhui Chiang obtained her BSN from the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. Working as a staff nurse for 6 years, she's had clinical experience in internal medicine and CICU. In 2006, she graduated from the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program of the University of Pennsylvania and became a board certified CRNP. She's currently working as a nurse practitioner in the inpatient abdominal organ transplant division.

Memberships/Societies

Member of the American Nurses Association
Member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honors Society

Research

Chienhui Chiang participated in Achieving Competence Today 2006, a national curriculum in health care systems and quality improvement. She collaborated with physicians and residents to identify the impact on quality of care while implementing “early goal-directed therapy” (EGDT) on sepsis patients in the ED of a major academic center. The team also investigated the root causes of compromised care related to EGDT and developed a feasible solutions and analyzed the risk and cost of the solutions.

Publications

Poster Presentation on “Cool the Brain, Save the Life – Knowledge Synthesis of Mild Hypothermia in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ” at the Research Dinner Meeting of the SePA AACN Chapter, Philadelphia, 2005.
Case Presentation on “The nursing experience of helping a patient with AMI and teaching his family about self-care” at the Symposium on Nursing Case Report of Taiwan Nurse Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.