Frankie Hamilton is the Deputy Director of Nursing Operations at a city hospital in the Bronx, New York. He has a 4-year background as a high school chemistry and biology teacher and has been a registered nurse for eleven years, working at the bedside in direct patient care for four years, and working in management for the last seven. Frankie completed a 12-month BSN program at SUNY Stony Brook, an MBA in Strategic Healthcare Management at Hofstra University, and an MSN in Adult Gerontology/ Primary Care Nursing at Hunter College. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at New York University where his research interests focus on alcohol use disorders in patients with limited English proficiency.
Frankie is a member of the NYC Chapter of the American Association for Men in Nursing, the New York Organization of Nurse Executives and Leaders, the American Nurse’s Association, the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL), and the National Association for Healthcare Quality. He holds three nursing specialty certifications, with concentrations in nursing leadership (NEA-BC), critical care (CCRN-K), and quality (CPHQ), as well as his certificate in adult gerontology primary care (AGPCNP-BC). Frankie is also a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Nurse Corps where he works to ensure operational readiness of his fellow sailors and works towards the overall improvement of naval healthcare.
Currently, Frankie is in charge of hospital operations in the inpatient side, always striving for continuous quality improvement and better outcomes for his patients. In this role, he interfaces as often as possible with the frontline staff and encourages them to always remain quality focused. He partners with nurse leaders to improve the implementation of the sepsis bundle and the development of performance improvement projects revolving around sepsis care. He continues to work per diem as a sepsis quality specialist where he collects and reports sepsis data to the NYS Department of Health and works to improve sepsis treatment. Frankie hopes to utilize his nursing knowledge and varied professional and educational experiences to effect large scale change in sepsis care and to continue to raise sepsis awareness in alignment with the goals of the Sepsis Alliance Clinical Community.
