Reginald E. Bannerman
MSN, MBA, RN, NE-BC
Director of Nursing & Service, Psychiatry
Season 03 - Episode 05
Reginald E. Bannerman
MSN, MBA, RN, NE-BC
Over 31 years of experience in the healthcare field, 26 years as a professional Registered Nurse in various capacities. He obtained his undergraduate in 1997 and graduate degrees form The Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing and School of Business in 2003. Reginald has been with Children’s National Health System for over 15 years. He specializes in the area of reduction of the use of restraints and seclusion in the hospital setting. As the current Director of the Division of Psychiatry (Inpatient) and Behavioral Science; he has led his team to a 75% reduction rate in the incidence of seclusion and restraints over a decade.
His last project was working with team of clinicians to implement an evidenced based suicide screening tool: Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (CSSR-S) as part of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal across the care continuum that went into effect May and June 2019 respectively. This work will in the future eventually lead to universal suicide screening for all children that are seen at the hospital and/or outpatient clinics. The work was accepted as an abstract and podium presentation in Oslo, Norway for the 11th European Conference on Violence in October 2019.
He is an expert in the areas of seclusion and restraints regulatory competencies and managing the aggressive patient. Reginald is also a certified senior Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) trainer. Reginald is a member of the Behavioral Health system wide Taskforce lead by Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at Children’s National Hospital; the Taskforce is tasked to work on initiatives to better serve patients and families on the mental health continuum. Reginald is currently leading some of this work in the area of managing the aggressive patient system wide with the implementation of the Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT Response). In October 2018, the work was presented in Canada at the 6th International Conference on Violence in the Health Sector.
Reginald has presented some of his other work implemented here at Children’s National internationally (Austria 2005, Netherlands 2007, and Sweden 2009) and nationally, he presented on this topic at the 57th Annual American Academy of Child and Adolescent Conference in NY in October of 2010, in Crittenden Children's Center in Kansas in 2012 and Oslo, Norway 2019). He also served as a Content Expert on the American Nurses Credentialing Center on Board certification examination at the Nurse Executive Level (NE-BC and NEA-BC). Reginald was published in 2015 based on research work on the Adolescent unit in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing in November 2015 on the topic “Implementing a Community Bullying Awareness Intervention in an Adolescent Psychiatric Unit; A Feasibility Study.”
Currently working as Adjunct Faculty at Catholic University of America Conway school of Nursing, teaching undergraduate students psychiatric mental health nursing in the (BSN program). Second publication based on work done with colleagues here at Children’s National Hospital to roll out the Columbia Severity Suicide Rating Scale (CSSR-S) implementation for suicide screening was released October 2020, titled Improving Youth Suicide Risk Screening and assessment in a pediatric hospital setting by using Joint Commission guidelines, part of this work was presented in Oslo, Norway in 2019.
