About
Ashey Bender is clinical Nurse III at the UCLA Santa Monica Neonatal ICU working as a relief charge nurse. Ashley has led the 5S storage room project for her unit to decrease product waste and improve fiscal responsibility. Ashley's interest in innovating patient care has led her to involvement in her unit's Unit Practice Council, with collaborative research with Nurse Practitioners and MDs, and chairing the system-wide Research and Innovation Council, where she championed nursing research education and helped to develop a new bedside medication crusher.