Sandra Citty

Clinical Associate Professor University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Sandra Citty's research focuses on patient safety, healthcare quality, infusion of evidence-based practices and optimizing health.

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Biography

Sandra Citty is a Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center nurse researcher. She identifies opportunities for improvements and collaborates with clinical staff on the trial, implementation and sustainment of improved patient outcomes. She assumes continuous accountability of studies across service and/or discipline lines. As nurse researcher, Sandra demonstrates sound decision-making, judgment and possesses excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills. She has a global understanding of how the center supports the mission and vision of the Department of Veterans Affairs in a practical way toward improved efficient patient-centered care for veterans.

Areas of Expertise

Patient Safety

Nursing

Family Health

Veterans Affairs

Medical-Surgical Acute Care Nursing

Enhancing Health Outcomes

Nutrition

Media Appearances

Enteral Nutrition: An Underappreciated Source of Patient Safety Events

ASPEN Podcasts radio

2025-01-27

This ASPEN podcast series is based on our support of Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 9-15, 2025 and will feature enteral nutrition process safety. Episode 2 features Sandra Citty, PhD, RN who recently published a study on this topic and will discuss the process of EN adverse events, including event collection and what can be learned from this.

Patient Safety: Highlighting Enteral Nutrition Administration in Acute Care - NCP

ASPEN Podcasts radio

2024-07-22

The August 2024 podcast features Registered Nurse, Dr. Sandra CItty who holds a joint position as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health Systems and faculty in the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the North Florida South Georgia Veteran’s Health System in Gainesville Florida. Dr. Citty shares her passion improving system-based medication and nutrition administration to reduce patient safety concerns.

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Articles

Nutrition Support Therapies on the Medication Administration Record: Impacts on Staff Perception of Nutrition Care

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Sandra W. Citty, et al .

2020-10-23

It has been reported that many hospitals in the United States have fragmented and ineffective ordering, administration, documentation, and evaluation/monitoring of nutrition therapies. This paper reports on a project to investigate if perceived hospital staff awareness and documentation of nutrition support therapies (NSTs) improves by including them as part of the medication administration record (MAR).

Enteral Nutrition Administration Record Prescribing Process Using Computerized Order Entry: A New Paradigm and Opportunities to Improve Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients

Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition

Amir Y. Kamel, et al.

2020-05-08

Prevalence of malnutrition has been reported in 60% of hospitalized and up to 78% of patients admitted to intensive care units. Malnutrition has been associated with complications, such as infection, increased hospital length of stay, morbidity, and mortality. Nutritional support has been shown to reduce avoidable readmissions, pressure ulcers, malpractice claims, and hospital costs.

Impact of Telephone Follow-Up on Patient Satisfaction in a Pediatric Neurosurgery Clinic

Journal of Patient Experience

Erica Blanco

2020-04-19

Patient satisfaction is a key metric used to measure quality in health care. However, patient satisfaction measures in the pediatric population are less studied and understood than in the adult population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of telephone follow-up on patient satisfaction in an outpatient pediatric neurosurgery clinic.