National Program Office

Vickie Sears, RN, MS, CCRN
Quality Improvement Leader

Vickie Sears is the QI Leader for Expecting Success. Ms. Sears has over 30 years experience in the health care arena in both hospital and physician office based practices. Her experience with hospital quality improvement initiatives includes clinical pathway and practice standards development, data collection, and analysis for such projects as CMS/JCAHO Health Care Initiatives, NRMI, SCCM Project Impact and nursing competency assessment programs. Ms. Sears has worked as a clinical nurse specialist in both critical care and medical-surgical units.

Her management experience also includes medical staff services oversight, medical staff peer review, physician recruitment and physician billing and coding. Additionally, she has managed several intensivist groups in the Washington, DC area. Most recently, Ms. Sears served as a member of the Washington, DC Team for the Patient Safety Improvement Corp, a collaborative jointly sponsored by AHRQ and the VA. Ms. Sears received her diploma in nursing from Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing and her BSN and Masters of Science, Nursing with a clinical specialist trauma and critical care focus from the University of Maryland. She is certified in critical care nursing and a member of ACCP, SCCM and the AACN.