Nick Chmielewski

Nicholas Chmielewski is an associate director in BRG’s Healthcare Advisory practice and leads the firm’s Emergency Care Solutions team. He is the founding host and producer of the BRG Nurse Executive Podcast, now in its fifth season with over eighty episodes and listenership exceeding 20,000.

Dr. Chmielewski has led performance improvement initiatives in more than seventy facilities in twenty-one states, directly influencing care for millions of patients annually. His approach centers on empowering frontline staff, fostering shared governance, and hardwiring sustainable change through data-driven methodologies anchored by real-time feedback.

Dr. Chmielewski’s experience in opening a startup hospital, combined with his project management experience with an informatics overhaul, allows him to bring a unique skillset for performance improvement consulting engagements. He excels in data analysis, collaborating with informatics professionals, and hardwiring processes that provide real-time objective feedback to staff regarding their performance.

Dr. Chmielewski has director-level and associate chief nursing officer service-line experience, including interim assignments that involved responsibility over multiple departments and/or sites. He also has managed clinical integration projects following an organization’s acquisition. A client summed up an engagement as “one of the best decisions I made to refocus our emergency services on a better trajectory.”

Dr. Chmielewski has served on state and national committees with the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and committees and task forces with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL). His national ENA leadership positions include serving as chairperson of the 2014 Resolutions Committee and 2019 Advocacy Advisory Council.

Dr. Chmielewski has published material in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (JACEP) Open, Journal of Emergency Nursing, Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, ENA Connection, Becker’s Hospital Review, AONL Voice of Nursing Leadership, Nurse Leader, and BRG Review. He is a Certified Emergency Nurse, a Certified Nurse Manager and Leader, and Certified in Executive Nursing Practice; holds a Nurse Executive Advanced Board Certification; and is a lifetime fellow in the Academy of Emergency Nursing (AEN). He was elected and served six years on the AEN Board of Directors and was the 2022 AEN Board chairperson.