Susan Scott, MSN RN WOC Nurse

Susan Scott serves as quality improvement/patient safety educator with the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, and Office of Graduate Medical Education in Memphis, TN. She is also the CEO and independent consultant for Scott Triggers PLLC.

She is a notable International OR pressure injury key opinion leader, researcher, and author from the Veterans Health Administration with 35 years of federal service. She developed the Scott Triggers, a concurrent trigger system used to identify at risk individuals for pressure injury in surgery. The Scott Triggers is currently being utilized by multiple hospital systems in over 37 states and 11 foreign countries. Scott also served as subject matter expert for the development of the AORN Perioperative Pressure Injury Prevention Toolkit. She was recognized by the American Academy of Nurses as an “edge runner” for her “Perioperative Pressure Injury Prevention Program.”