Imelda Caseres - Chiuco, RN, CIC

• Infection Control Practitioner for 15years; affiliated in Women’s Wellness Research Center
• Lead ICP for NICU Infection Control Sub-committee, WWRC
• Facilitates quality improvement programs in NICU such as CLABSI Prevention, VAP Prevention, Hand hygiene Task Force, Speak Up Campaign Projects.
• Graduate of Quality Management Education Program of JCI-HMC
• Currently taking her Master’s in Nursing Administration in Philippine Women’s University

Achievements:

• Co-author: Closed intravenous systems for central vascular access: A difference maker for CLABSI rates in neonates? published in The Journal of Vascular Access. 2022
• 1st Place in Storyboard Competition Patient Engagement Category for project entitled “Decrease Late Onset Sepsis In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Women’s Hospital” Middle East Forum, 2016
• 1st Place in Storyboard Competition in Leadership for Improvement Category for project “WH-NICU Hand Hygiene Project: A Journey towards Patient Safety Culture (A Multimodal approach to improving Hand hygiene Compliance in WH-NICU)” Middle East Forum, 2016
• Hand Hygiene project was accepted for poster presentation in IHI UK in 2016
• 1st Place Winner in Storyboard competition: “Decrease Late-Onset Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Women’s Hospital, HMC” Sepsis Week, Sept.,2016, HMC)
• Won Asian Patient Safety Award for Infection Control (6th International Patient Safety Conference (2016, India)