Marian Therese Longstreth, DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, CCRN, TCRN

Lecturer

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Nursing

Department:

Adult Health Department

Classification:

Adjunct Faculty

• DNP, Waynesburg University, 2022
• DNP, Waynesburg Universtiy, 2022
• MBA, Waynesburg Universtiy, 2018
• MSN, Waynesburg Universtiy, 2017
• BSN, Waynesburg Universtiy, 1991

Longstreth, M. (2023) Implementing Best Practices for Decreasing Nurse Hesitancy to Call the Rapid Respond Team: An Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Initiative (Vol. 54, pp. 281–288). Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. Retrieved from https://journals.healio.com/doi/10.3928/00220124-20230511-09

• Announced the "BEACON AWARD" to Camden Clark Medical Center from AACN - (April, 2024)
• CNO Acknowledgement Application - WVU Medicine - (January, 2024)
• Excellence in a Role Model - (January, 2024)
• Shout Out - Bravo Award - WVU Medicine - (2024)
• Shout Out! - (December, 2023)

• TCRN - Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) (2021)
• TCRN - Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) (2021)

Continuously providing decades of service in the fields of clinical nursing, education, and professional and organizational/system leadership. An expert in the provision of advanced trauma skills and cutting-edge intensive critical care, maintaining a current understanding of clinical practices in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), emergency room, and trauma. Specialized in the Surgical Intensive Care (SICU) Trauma Unit and also the Medical (MICU) and Neuro Critical Care Intensive Care Units (NCCU). Serves as WVU Medicine Hospital Stroke/Trauma/Arrest/Transport (STAT) and Code Teams and Rapid Response Teams Nurse (RRT). Expert in ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous (PIV) accessing and STAT nurse responding to all CODE Blue pages, Trauma-Priority 1, Stroke, and Critical Care Transport pages. Expert content in Nursing Research for WVU Medicine-Currently serves on the Shared Decision-Making Resource Pool Nursing Administration Department Research Committee as Research Chairperson and Chair of the WVU Medicine Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, and Nursing Research Council for Project Development, Implementation, and Poster/Podium Presentations. Board member on the WVU Medicine Critical Care and Trauma Institute (CCTI) ICU Steering Team Committee. Member of the WVU Medicine Transition to Practice Nurse Residency Advisory Executive Council as the Faculty Representative. Serves on the Nurse Advisory Council for the Magnet® and Transition to Practice Recertification Committees. Currently, Chair of The Clinical Advancement for Professional Excellence (CAPE) Program-Clinical Ladder for J.W. Ruby Memorial, Fairmont General, Chestnut Ridge and on the WVUHS Systems-Task Force Team and Sub-Task Force Team. Serves as a SupportingYOU Councilor Representative, Student Mentor (Leadership-BSN/MSN/DNP).
Optimistic and detail-oriented in administrative leadership abilities and roles by serving as an Associate Administrator and Director of Nursing in Pittsburgh, PA. Served as Clinical Preceptor and Clinical Specialist in the Pittsburgh area at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and Pittsburgh VA. Charge nurse, Mentor, a Leader at WVU Medicine. Instrumental in the WVU Medicine Nurse Residency Program: Current speaker for Leadership and Professional Development Workshops. A leader as an off-shift House Supervisor in the Washington, PA Area Health Hospital System as House Supervisor (UPMC-Washington-Greene). Member of Sigma Theta Tau: Alpha Rho (WVU - Past-Councilor and Current Secretary Positions) and Nu Sigma (Waynesburg University). Current President of the North Central West Virginia Association of Critical Care Nurses (NCWV.AACN) and AACN Region 4 Representative to the National AACN Office. Board member of the Future of Nursing Coalition for Recruitment and Pipeline Committee. Experienced preceptor for adult health, geriatrics, and intensive care nursing in medical, surgical, neurosurgical, and trauma. Served as a speaker for CCRN review courses and also for regional groups regarding mothering and work/life balance with professional careers. Speaker for health and skin care-related issues in the Pittsburgh, PA, area. Professional experience as a clinical educator, clinical preceptor, and mentor. Clinical faculty University instructor and lecturer for WVU, Waynesburg University Schools of Nursing, and West Virginia Junior College ICU Clinical Rotation Faculty and (RN-BSN) – Research in Healthcare Statistics Expert Faculty Teaching. Volunteer for health outreach development and community service programs. Active in career mentorship in the job shadow and preview programs focusing on nursing recruitment and retention. Serve on Executive Board for Scholarship Committees. Current DNP Project Advisory Panel-Faculty of Record. Graduate Faculty-Associate Level-DNP Levels.

Teaching interests: Research: Nurse Anesthesia CRNA – DNP & MSN Programs w/ Project Design, Implementation, Presentation. Faculty of Record (FOR). Quality Improvement, Evidence-based Practice, Nursing Research.
Sophomore, Junior, Senior Levels – BSN. Specialty: Intensive and Critical Care ICU: (Trauma/Surgical/Medical/Neurosurgical/NeuroCritical Care) – Lecturer & Clinical
RN-BSN: Statistics in Healthcare and Research – (online)
COVID 19 Response Team and ICU/ED/Critical Care Front Line Healthcare Nurse

Career Preceptorship, Mentorship, Retention, and Recruitment. DNP (Doctorate) work in the Clinical Advancement Practice for Excellence program, Practice Transition Accreditation Program, Nursing Residency Program, and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit Communication and Dissemination Team. Rapid Response Team Utilization and Modified Early Warning Scoring (MEWS) education, knowledge, and application as DNP Capstone Project. Code Blue (Narrator) Documentation, Assessing Clinical Gestalt in the ICU, and Hand-Off Report in the SICU.
Research Projects/Publications/Presentations/Posters/Assisted:
CPR Committee WVUM
Increasing Nurse Engagement in the Clinical Ladder
Anaphylaxis Protocol and Guidelines
WVUM Project Implements Projects (Interprofessional): Chaplain Services, Quality Improvement, Mary Babb Cancer Center, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy Enterprise, Vascular Access Team, Nursing Operations for Admission/Discharge-Thru-put.
Decrease Nurse Hesitancy when Calling a Rapid Response – A Quality Improvement Initiative
Proactive Leadership COVID Research
Difficult Intravenous Access (DIVA): Creation of the DIVA Lists
Fall Guidelines / Policy – Rapid Response Teams
Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Council Resource Pool
SICU Healthy Work Environments AACN
Nursing Clinical Research Council Support Expert
Research Educator Workshop – WVUM – CEOD
Standardizing NG Tube Securement: A QI Project
Code Blue Narrator Documentation: An EBP Initiative
Implementation Nurse Intuition Patient Deterioration Scale
Implementing Non-Invasive Capnography
Quality Improvement in Neurological Patients to and Fall Prevention