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University of Colorado College of Nursing

College of Nursing
 

Faculty Profile

Mary Beth Flynn Makic, RN, PhD, CNS, CCNS, FAAN

Associate Professor, Adjoint

Mary.Makic@ucdenver.edu

Dr. Makic is focused on nursing driven interventions that optimize outcomes of critical ill and acutely ill patients. She has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist in critical care for more than 20 years and is recognized as a leader in evidence-based practice, developing and co-chairing the first evidence-based practice champion group initiated at the University of Colorado Hospital in 1999. Dr. Makic has been successful in supporting bedside nurses as they implement evidence-based practice. Her passion and commitment focus on ensuring that nursing assessment and interventions are optimized based on current evidence and research to maximize patient comfort and outcomes. Her areas of research interest and practice improvement have focused on a diverse array of nursing specific interventions with a vast amount of work in the field of pressure ulcer and skin prevention interventions in the acute care practice environment. Her current clinical position as Research Nurse Scientist in Critical Care builds on this experience and expertise. She has several active studies and quality projects in the acute care nursing practice environment (e.g. prevention of pressure ulcers in high risk perioperative patients, sedation management in non-intubated burn injured patients, effectiveness of chlorhexidine gluconate versus standard bathing in reducing hospital-aquired infections).

Degree Awarding Institution Field of Study Graduation Date
PhD University of Colorado, Health Science Center
Denver, Colorado		 Nursing 2007
MS University of Maryland at Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland		 Nursing 1992
BS University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, Wisconsin		 Nursing 1985
  1. Makic MBF (in review). Evidence-Based Pressure Ulcer Prevention Practices by Nurses, a Qualitative Descriptive Study.  American Journal of Critical Care
  2. Makic MBF, VonRuenden K, Rauen CA, et al. Practicing by best evidence: Putting sacred cows out to pasture III. (in review). Crit Care Nurse.
  3. Makic MBF, Fink R.  EBP Implementation. In  J Houser and K Oman (eds) Evidence-Based Practice: An Implementation Guide for Healthcare Organizations. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. 2011 pp. 187-212.
  4. Makic MBF. section editor (in press). In D. Weigand AACN Procedure Manual 6th Edition.
  5. Makic MBF (in press). Wound Management: Excessive Drainage. In D. Weigand (eds) AACN Procedure Manual 6th Edition
  6. Makic MBF. (in press). Wound Management:  Fecal Containment Devices and Bowel Management Systems. In D. Weigand (eds) AACN Procedure Manual 6th Edition
  7. Makic MBF. (in press). Wound Management: Drain Removal. In D. Weigand  (eds)AACN Procedure Manual 6th Edition
  8. Makic MBF. Shock, states. In Smeltzer, S.C., & Bare, B.G. (Eds.). Brunner and Suddarth's textbook of medical surgical nursing (12th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Lippincott-Raven, 2010. pp. 313-335.
  9. Makic MBF Reviewer and Writer of Clicker Instructor Support Questions, Chapters 441-76.  In Ignatavicius, D., & Workman, L. (Eds). Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered Collaborative Care, 6th Edition. St. Lousi, MO. Saunders: Elsevier. 2010
  10. Makic MBF. (2009) Trauma and surgical management of patients. In Sole, M., Lamborn, M., & Klein, D. (Eds). Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 4th Edition., Philadelphia, PA: Harcourt Health Science Elsevier Corp, 651-682.
  11. Rauen C, Makic MBF, Bridges B. Evidence-based practice habits: transforming research into bedside practice. Critical Care Nurse. 2009; 29(2), 46-59.
  12. Makic MBF, Mann E. Thermal Injuries.  In  McQuillan, Makic, M.B., & Walen, E. (Eds.). Trauma Nursing: From resuscitation through rehabilitation (4rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2009; 865-886.
  13. Makic MBF, McQuillan K. Wound Healing and Soft Tissue Injuries. McQuillan, K., Makic, M.B., & Walen, E. (Eds.). Trauma Nursing: From resuscitation through rehabilitation (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2009; 306-328. .
  14. McQuillan K, Makic MBF, Whalen, E. Trauma Nursing: From resuscitation through rehabilitation (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Harcourt Health Science Corp. 2009
  15. Makic MBF, Carlson KK. Symptom Management. In Carlson, K.K. (ed). Advanced Critical Care Nursing. Philadelphia, PA: Sanders Elsevier, 2009; 91-110.
  16. Mamaril ME, Makic MBF.Care of the Intensive care unit patient in the PACU In C.B. Drain & J. Odom-Forren (eds). Perianesthesia Nursing: a critical care approach 5th edition St. Louis MO: Saunders, Elsevier 2008; 781-810.
  17. Holden M, Makic MBF.  Clinically induced hypothermia: why chill your patient?  AACN Advanced Critical Care. 2006; 17(2), 125-132.
  18. Mann E, Makic MBF. Burn Injury.  In Koziol-McLain, J. & Oman, K. (eds).  Emergency Nursing Secrets. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.  2007; 357-372.
Title Organization Year
Fellow American Academy of Nursing 2012
Kathryn Smith Lastreto Mentor Award Sigma Theta Tau International
Alpha Kappa Chapter at Large		 2012
Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society and 3M Excellence in Skin Safety Award, honorable mention Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society 2012
President’s Award
Working Together Nominee		 University of Colorado Hospital 2012
Dean’s Teaching Award University of Colorado
College of Nursing		 2010
Chancellor’s Teaching Award University of Colorado
College of Nursing		 2009
Editorial Board Member AACN Advanced Critical Care Journal 2008
Innovations in evidence-based Practice National Nursing Staff Development Organization 2007
Colorado Patient Safety Award Colorado Coalition Patient Safety Network 2006
Chancellor’s Teaching Award University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing 2004
Innovation and Creativity in
Nursing (NurseWeek Finalist)		 NurseWeek 2003
Presidents Teaching Award University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing 2002
World Class Care Award University of Colorado Hospital 2002
Mentoring and Development Award Department of Professional Resources
University of Colorado Hospital		 2002
Dean’s Teaching Award University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing 2001

  • 2009 - Primary Investigator, Placement of Esophageal Temperature Probes by Registered Nurses; STTI small grant

  • 2009 - Co-investigator, Decision Support to Reduce Urinary Catheter Insertions and Cather-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, UCHSC/SOM Small Grants Program, University of Colorado Hospital

  • 2008 - Co-Investigator, Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections with Nurse-Driven Interventions, UCHSC/SOM Small Grants Program, University of Colorado Hospital

  • 2008 - Co-investigator, Ventilated Patient’s Perception of Pain. University of Colorado Hospital

  • 2005 - Primary Investigator, Nursing Directed Interventions to Reduce Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the ICU; American Association of Critical Care Nurses 2005 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Grant

  • 2001 to present - Lead Data Collector, National Nursing Data Quality Indicators for Pressure Ulcer