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Category: Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership

Enhanced Communication Improves Patient Care in the Med-Surg Cluster

Quiet Champions educate stakeholders and reinforce strategies for maintaining a quiet environment.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, Quiet Champions
Salinas Valley Health nurse manager Laurel Black with the Gratitude Tree, which contains encouraging notes from nurses to each other

Care for the Caregiver

Gratitude Tree Supports Nurses’ Well-Being in Critical Care

While many forms of formal recognition already existed, Laurel Black, MSN, RN, CCRN, liked the idea that the Gratitude Tree is easy for clinical nurses to engage with while offering steady recognition.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, Critical Care

Nursing Director’s Successful Advocacy Delivers Critical Staff Support

Feedback to date has been extremely positive. Many staff members are clearly grateful to receive support they didn’t know they needed.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, BETA HEART
Stylized line illustration of people holding hands in a circle.

Transformational Leadership

It Takes a Village

Though California has done better than much of the rest of the country on these measures, it has not been immune, with hemorrhage affecting 6.3% of all patients giving birth.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, COVID-19, Patient Care, RSV

Transformational Leadership

New Committee Optimizes Culturally Sensitive Care

To better serve Spanish-speaking patients and their families, SVMHS formed the Culturally Sensitive Care Committee in 2021, with overwhelming support and success.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, 2021 Archive, Culturally Sensitive Care Committee

Transformational Leadership

Keepsakes Provide Meaning for Patient’s Families

A heartwarming story: how the Heartbeat in a Bottle brings comfort to families whose loved ones passed away from COVID-19 or other causes.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, 2021 Archive, COVID-19, Critical Care Practice Council
A healthcare provider in full PPE speaks to a patient with COVID-19 through a car window.

Transformational Leadership

COVID Clinic Addresses the Needs of the Most Vulnerable Patients

“I truly believe if some of our patients had not come to their appointments – they would not have survived.”

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, 2021 Archive, COVID-19
SVMHS nurse leaders pose for a group photo.

Transformational Leadership

In Their Own Words

“I am inspired by the positive energy of collaboration within all levels of leadership and with the emphasis on helping nurses at all levels by creating the supportive environment they need to be successful.”

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, 2021 Archive, COVID-19, Leadership
Stethoscope next to two hearts

Transformational Leadership

Learning More About Our Leaders

Creating, sustaining and navigating within a thriving healthcare environment requires passion, commitment and a host of other key attributes and skills.

categories and tags Transformational Leadership, 2021 Archive, COVID-19, Leadership

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