Ryan Schneider, MSN, APRN, ACNP-BC

I currently serve as the patient safety and quality coordinator for the Department of Emergency Medicine. My journey to where I am today has always revolved around EM. I did my undergraduate studies and nursing school at Illinois State University. As graduation neared, I was certain I would be moving to Chicago to work at Rush University Medical Center. But after a visit to Barnes Jewish Hospital and touring the ED, my plans quickly changed. In one short visit I witnessed multiple level I trauma’s, a patient with a STEMI rushed to the back from triage, and organized chaos like I had never seen before. I fell in love and shortly thereafter changed my plans by applying and interviewing for the nursing fellowship for new graduates in the ED at BJH. This was in 2005 and those first two years were some of the most intense years I can recall. In 2007 I went back to graduate school at Saint Louis University full time to become an acute care nurse practitioner while still working part time in the ED. I graduated in 2010 and immediately took a job working in several community ED’s located in the St. Louis area. In 2012 I was recruited back to BJH/WUSM by Dr. Richard Griffey to expand the departments safety and quality efforts. It was around this time that other WUSM departments were starting to invest time and effort into patient safety & quality as well. At that time, we only had representatives for around 4 departments. Now the patient safety & quality group covers 12 different departments and consists of over 24 safety experts. My academic interest includes patient safety, adverse event detection, quality improvement, quality measurement, and quality measure development.
My journey to where I am today has been led by excellent mentorship. I hope I can serve in that same capacity to those with any interests in PSQI as it relates to emergency medicine.
On a personal note, I am originally from the metro east (Glen Carbon, IL). I have been married for 14 years and have 3 daughters (ages 9, 11, and 13) who keep me young.