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Biographical Sketch: Speaker Profile Sandy Quigley CWOCN, CPNP
Clinical Specialist in Wound, Ostomy & Continence Care Children’s Hospital Boston
Sandy Quigley has over 26 years of pediatric nursing experience at Children’s Hospital Boston which is a 375 -bed acute care facility. She provides care to children, adolescents and young adults from around the world. She completed her Enterostomal Therapy program in 1993 and then became the first Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nurse at Children’s Hospital. Sandy attended Northeastern University and received her Master of Science Degree in Nursing, specializing as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 1996.
Sandy has collaborated on a research project to establish the reliability and validity of the Braden Q, a pediatric pressure ulcer risk assessment tool that she created with Martha Curley RN, PhD for use in the pediatric population which is now translated into 8 different languages. She has presented locally, nationally and internationally on topics relating to congenital and acquired anomalies requiring ostomy diversions, Neonatal Ostomy & Wound Care, enteral tube management, appendicostomies and bowel management, incontinence associated dermatitis, and pediatric pressure ulcer prevention and management.
She has co-authored journal articles and book chapters, as well as, done oral abstracts and presentations on a wide variety of clinical topics including:
- Using the Braden Q Scale to Predict Pressure Ulcer Risk in Pediatric Patients
- Pressure Ulcers in Pediatric Intensive Care: Incidence and Associated Factors.
- Skin Integrity in Hospitalized Infants and Children: A Prevalence Survey
- Skin Integrity in the Pediatric Population: Preventing & Managing Pressure Ulcers
- Effectiveness of Antegrade Continence Enema for Constipation or Fecal Incontinence
- A Weighty Issue: Creating a Safer Environment for Pediatric Bariatric Patients in a Free Standing Pediatric Hospital
- Ostomy Care in Children and Youth Assisted by Medical Technology in Educational Settings: Guidelines for Care
- Neonatal Ostomy Diversions and Management
- Created a Video entitled “Living with an Ostomy”: Family Education. Children’s Hospital Boston
- Created a school age/adolescent booklet entitled “What the Heck is an Ileoanal Reservoir?”
- Enteral Tubes: Care & Management
She is also blessed to be “Mom” to healthy 14 year old twins, Jared and Zachary, and their energetic 12 year old sister Mikayla Rose. Her husband Tim is also a nurse and currently a VP and Chief Nursing Officer at a large Community Hospital.