Our Story

Kathleen has been a critical care nurse for over 40 years and a Clinical Nurse Specialist for 30 of those years. She assists nurses and organizations in achieving patient driven outcomes through knowledge, process change and skill development. She designs creative strategies and practical frameworks for integrating evidence-based practices into nurses' and multidisciplinary teams’ workflow to innovate care and impact patient outcomes.

Kathleen is the inventor of the Vollman Prone Positioner that was on the market from 1997-2011, making it easy and safe for turning critically ill patients prone. Kathleen’s knowledge base is expansive. She has presented, published and consulted nationally and international on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prone positioning, sepsis early recognition and management, early mobility, reducing health care acquired infections and pressure injuries, nursing professional development, patient safety and work culture.

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Dr. Joyce Black is a Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She has taught undergraduate students basic concepts, medical surgical nursing and ICU nursing. She teaches senior level nursing students in intensive care nursing, teaches advanced pathophysiology and supervises research activities of graduate students.

Dr. Black has received awards from UNMC and the College for her teaching. Her research areas of interest are in wound healing, specifically in pressure injuries. Dr. Black's dissertation examined the patient and wound factors that contributed to the healing or non-healing of diabetics with pressure injuries. She is certified in wound healing, plastic surgical nursing and is a Fellow in the American Professional Wound Care Association. Dr. Black is a past President and the current President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and chairman of the NPIAP's task force to redefine pressure ulcer staging. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, from UNMC and the College for her teaching and most recently the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work in deep tissue pressure injury.

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Natalie Correll-Yoder is the clinical nurse specialist for critical care services at NorthBay Healthcare. She obtained her Associates Degree and BSN from Mount. St. Mary’s College and her Master's in Nursing with an emphasis in cardiopulmonary nursing from UCLA.

Natalie has extensive experience in the field of critical care nursing, which includes expertise in Hemodynamic Monitoring, Cardiac Surgery, CRRT, Therapeutic Temperature Management, Ethics and Moral Distress, and Healthy Work Environment. She works closely with Atlas Lift Tech Mobility Technicians at NorthBay to improve patient and caregiver outcomes.

She has published original articles in AACN news and presented numerous topics at AACN’s National Teaching Institute. She is nationally certified as a CCRN and CCN. Has served on the AACN National Board of Directors and is the co-founder of the Napa Valley AACN Chapter.

Danielle has been a registered nurse for 17 years with a background in critical care. In the last decade, she was worked in a variety of leadership roles, including director of the Safe Patient Handling and Mobility program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is presently the Chief Nurse Executive of Ventura County Medical Center and Santa Paula Hospital, a public hospital system in southern California. She recently completed her Doctorate in Nursing Practice, in which she implemented an early mobility program in a small community hospital intensive care unit. She is passionate about mobility and providing high-quality, cost-effective patient care. In her personal time, she enjoys traveling and being with her three teenagers and husband, as well as keeping herself active biking and running.

Susan Lennon Salsbury BS, OTR/L, CDMS, CSPHP is a 1980 graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Allied Medical Professions. She is a licensed Occupational Therapist, a Certified Disability Management Specialist and a Certified Safe Patient Handling Professional.

She has over 40 years’ experience in clinical and employer-based environments and has developed and implemented occupational rehabilitation programs in both settings. Susan has presented programs locally, statewide, and nationally on Transitional Work, Ergonomics, and Safe Patient Handling to health professional groups.

She is currently employed with OhioHealth in Columbus, OH where she was instrumental in the development of a transitional work program and is responsible for ongoing growth and implementation of services. She has been involved with the safe patient handling and movement initiative with OhioHealth since 2004. She currently works as a Quality Specialist in Nursing Research and Excellence at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital.

Susan completed a nursing research project studying the effects of a multifaceted minimal lift environment on nursing staff, which was published in the February 2010 issue of the Western Journal of Nursing Research. She is also published in peer-reviewed publications, including the American Journal of Safe Patient Handling and Movement, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing and Critical Care Nurse Q. Susan presented a short course at the American Occupational Therapy Association National Conference in April 2014 for the Work and Industry Specialty Interest Group about establishing occupational therapy services for onsite occupational rehabilitation. Susan participated in a consensus panel of subject matter experts on patient handling injuries sponsored by Sage, with submission of a manuscript to American Nurse Today January 2016. She was a contributing author to the ANA Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Interprofessional National Standards Across the Care Continuum second edition 2021.

She is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Association, the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association, and the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals. Susan serves on the board of the Central District Chapter of the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association. She is a Board member for the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals, co-chairing the Education Committee. She was awarded the Advocacy Award for Safe Patient Handling at the 2018 National Safe Patient Handling Conference.