Leslie Smith | CC

Clinical Nurse Specialist, Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant, NIH Clinical Center (CC)

Biography

Leslie has been an oncology nurse for 29 years. She has primarily worked in acute leukemia care most of her career with bedside nursing experience for 19 years. She has also worked as a home health nurse, nurse manager and in the past 11 years, as an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist.

She has presented on evidenced based practice for current nursing management of surgical oncology patients, nursing management of patients receiving CAR-T cell therapy, developed classes for OCN review, and managed a nurse residency program for nurses new to oncology.

Leslie has broad experience as an oncology nurse mentor and teacher.

Current Program Interest/ Research Projects:

Leslie's interest is in variables that determine nurse to patient ratios and what defines safe staffing levels. Leslie is committed to the development of the bedside nurse professionally as well increasing autonomy and knowledge of nurses at the bedside.

Certifications: AOCNS, BMTCN

Service (Internal & External):

IRB
Fall Prevention Program
Surgical Administrative Committee
Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Nursing/Pharmacy Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Committee
NIH CC Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Secretariat
Various Shared Governance Committees
National Capital Chapter Oncology Nursing Society
Chesapeake Bay Affiliate National Clinical Nurse Specialists

Honors and Awards:

2021 Oncology/Critical Care Nurse Executive Award
2020 NIH CEO award 3NE Telemetry education
2020 CEO award Hepatic Pump Education 3SES
2017 Excellence in Nursing-Oncology/Critical Care Chief's Award

Current Program Interest/Research/ Evidence Based Initiatives:

Falls Prevention
Accurate blood culture collection
Capnography monitoring for patients on PCAs or high doses of opioids

Selected Presentations and Publications:

Smith, L. (June 2021). Biologics and immunotherapy: What you should know. WOCNNext 2021 Annual Conference. Virtual presentation.

Smith, L. (August 2021). Lymphoma essentials for oncology nurses. 5th Annual School of Nursing Oncology. Virtual presentation.

Smith, L. (2021). Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 37(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2021.151135

Smith, L., Aaron, J. Mikula, M., Kolakowski, D. (February 2020). To Infinity and Beyond: Developing a Nursing Cellular Therapy Program of Care. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida. (Poster)

Anderson, V. and Smith, L. (2020). Cancer immunotherapy update: Review of immune checkpoint inhibitor and CAR T-cell therapy adverse effects and treatments. American Nurse Journal, 15(9), 2-9.

Boehm, L. M., Pun, B. T., Stollings, J. L., Girard, T. D., Rock, P., Hough, C. L., Hsieh, S. J., Khan, B. A., Owens, R. L., Schmidt, G. A., Smith, S., Ely, E. W. (2020). A multisite study of nurse-reported perceptions and practice of ABCDEF bundle components. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102872