Enhanced Communication Improves Patient Care in the Med-Surg Cluster
Quiet Champions educate stakeholders and reinforce strategies for maintaining a quiet environment.
Category: Transformational Leadership
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.