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Governor Appoints First New Jersey Nurse As Commissioner of Health Advocating--Positioning--and Educating New Jersey RNs Brought to you by NJSNA’s Dues-Paying Members. JOIN US TODAY! The Official Publication of the New Jersey State Nurses Association/Institute for Nursing Volume 50 • Number 1 Quarterly publication direct mailed to approximately 141,000 RNs and LPNs in New Jersey January 2020 Inside... Governor Appoints First New Jersey Nurse as Commissioner of Health Susan H. Weaver, PhD, RN, CRNI, NEA-BC Judith M. Persichilli, RN, BSN, MA “I am blessed and Current Position: NJ Acting Commissioner of fortunate to be able to serve Health the people of New Jersey, a state that I love, and to Hometown: Pennington, NJ do it with a Governor who Education: Diploma, St. Francis Hospital has an agenda that matches School of Nursing; NJSNA/IFN Professional Summit my concerns particularly regarding vulnerable BSN, Rutgers, the State University of NJ; Page 7 populations. It is a privilege MA Administration, Rider University, to do what I am doing.” Awards: 2006 NJSNA Roll of Honor; 2009 explained Judith Persichilli Doctor of Health honorary degree, Georgian during our conversation Court University; 2019 Rutgers University this past fall. In the 104- Judith Persichilli Outstanding Alumni Award year history of the New Jersey (NJ) Department of Health (DOH), Judith M. First job in nursing: ICU staff nurse at St. Persichilli, RN, BSN, MA, is the FIRST nurse to serve Francis Hospital, Trenton, NJ as Commissioner. Persichilli began her new position Being in a leadership position gives me as the NJ Acting Commissioner of Health on August the opportunity to: Make a difference 5, 2019. Prior to being asked to lead the DOH by Governor Phil Murphy, Persichilli served as the Acting Most people don’t know that: I am a Twin – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of University Hospital My sister was in medical publishing in Newark. My best advice to aspiring leaders: Learn Medical Mission Trip Persichilli grew up in Dunellen, NJ and began to listen her career as an ICU staff nurse and then as nurse One thing I want to learn: Listen better Page 13 educator at St. Francis Hospital in Trenton. Her first nursing leadership position was “doing everything” One word to describe me: Blessed as weekend nursing supervisor, and she then slowly progressed in leadership as she continued her education. After receiving her master’s degree, she returned to St. Francis Hospital to develop a quality While doing some consulting, Persichilli received a Index assurance program. Persichilli explained that being call from Governor Murphy’s office asking her to be in quality enabled her to learn what makes a hospital the Monitor at University Hospital to look at fiscal Membership Application . 2 work. “I enjoyed looking at the whole hospital through practices of regulatory adherence. Her name came to CEO Report . 3 the lens of quality. It taught me that nursing, although the Governor’s attention because she had served the LPN Forum . 3 the largest division, is not the only division; that Georgian Court University Board of Directors with an IFN Report . 3 there is a lot more going on in the hospital” stated attorney who worked in the Governor’s office. Based on her own experience, Persichilli’s career advice to Region News . 4 Persichilli. nurses is to develop relationships, network and obtain The Nurses’ Role in the Vaping Crisis . 6 When DRGs (Diagnosis Related Groups) came to NJ, the hospital administrator told her she needed a position on boards. President’s Report . 6 As the first nurse Commissioner, Persichilli NJSNA/IFN Professional Summit . 7 nurse in finance to help the CPAs. Although Persichilli was very reluctant to move from quality to finance she believes that, as a nurse, she brings a different Let’s Hear One for Nursing! . 8 now realizes it was a pivotal career step and it was key perspective to this most important position. “We are Significance of Driving RN Psychological Safety in to her moving up the ranks. Persichilli recognized that one of the few professions that are educated across Healthcare . 9 this hospital administrator, who was a religious Sister, the full continuum of care and continuum of life. Innovative Nursing Workplace Environment and Staffing saw something in her that she did not see in herself. Nurses have a holistic view. We just don't look at the Councils throughout New Jersey Hospitals . 10 In her career Persichilli has always tried to look at particular disease state but also look at the family Medical Mission Trip . 13 the multidimensional potential of individuals and and the implications for the particular patient” stated Healthy Nurse, Healthy New Jersey . 14 when there is an opening, would not hesitate to move Persichilli. According to the Commissioner, the Department Nurses in the News . 15 people around so they can grow in different ways and fulfill their potential. of Health has two branches of work: Strategic and The most rewarding experience for Persichilli Tactical which consist of epidemiological studies, has been watching nurses reach their career outbreaks, regulation and inspection work. In her potential, especially when nurses move position, Persichilli hopes to accomplish the important Non-Profit Org. organizations to build capacity to take better strategic work of maintaining the DOH mission, U.S. Postage Paid care of people. In contrast balancing the fiscal with decreasing resources, to have a healthier NJ. Princeton, MN realities of healthcare with mission imperatives While being cognizant of the healthcare needs of Permit No. 14 the NJ population, she hopes to strategically focus current resident or to take care of people who need it the most without much money to pay for it, has been on the beginning of life and end of life. Persichilli the most challenging. Persichilli recalls the is examining maternal and infant morbidity and wisdom from a healthcare futurist that the only mortality and working with Nurture NJ, First Lady difference between scarcity and abundance is Tammy Murphy’s initiative, to improve maternal and creativity. She continues to be challenged to infant health. For end of life she hopes to work with bring creativity to her work in order to balance organizations to improve hospice and palliative care. the fiscal realities with the mission imperative Regarding key nursing issues, when reflecting of making communities healthier. on her career in leadership Persichilli has tried Governor Appoints First New Jersey...continued on page 2 Page 2 New Jersey Nurse & Institute for Nursing Newsletter January 2020 New Jersey Nurse MEMBERSHIP Official Publication of the New Jersey State Nurses Association and Institute for Nursing 1479 Pennington Road Trenton, New Jersey 08618 Phone: 609-883-5335 ext 111 Fax: 609-883-5343 Email: [email protected] Webpage: www.njsna.org NJSNA Mission Statement Advance the practice of professional nursing by fostering quality outcomes in education, practice and research Institute for Nursing (IFN) Board of Trustees Mary Ellen Levine, Chair, [email protected] Dr. Barbara Chamberlain, Treasurer, [email protected] June Brandes-Chu, Secretary, [email protected] Judy Schmidt, MAL, CEO, [email protected] Dr. Phyllis Hansell, Vice Chair, [email protected] Dr. Mary E. Fortier, MAL, [email protected] Ray Zarzar, Community Member Kristin Buckley, Community Member Executive Committee Kate Gillespie, President, [email protected] Mary Ellen Levine, President-Elect, [email protected] Dr. Barbara Chamberlain, Treasurer, [email protected] Linda Gural, Secretary, [email protected] Board of Directors Dr. Ben Evans, Past President, [email protected] Dr. Susan Weaver, Director, [email protected] JoAnne Penn, Director Staff Nurse, [email protected] Dr. Brenda Petersen, Director, [email protected] Dr. Tara Heagele, Director, [email protected] Dr. Erica Edfort, Chair COPP, [email protected] Region Presidents Dr. Sandra Foley, Region 1; [email protected] Fatima Sanchez, Region 2; [email protected] Lynda Arnold, Region 3; [email protected] Dr. Beth Knox, Region 4; [email protected] Summer Valenti, Region 5, [email protected] Dr. Mary Fortier, Region 6, [email protected] NJSNA/IFN Staff Judy Schmidt, CEO, [email protected] Debra Harwell, Deputy Director, [email protected] Terri Ivory, Director of RAMP, [email protected] Jennifer Chanti, Exec. Asst./Membership Administrator, [email protected] Tyea Santiago, Education Coordinator, [email protected] Kortnei Jackson, Ed. Adm. Asst., [email protected] Annemarie Edinger, RAMP Comm. Coord., [email protected] Deborah Robles, RAMP Adm. Asst., [email protected] Emily Gannon, RAMP Intake Spec., [email protected] Benita James, RAMP Case Manager, [email protected] Joan Peditto, RAMP Case Manager, [email protected] Governor Appoints First New Jersey...continued from page 1 Reference Etha Westbrook, RAMP Case Manager, [email protected] Institute of Medicine. (2011). Future of Nursing Leading Andrew Haviland, RAMP Case Manager, [email protected] Change, Advancing Health. Washington, D.C.: The to incorporate the concepts of the healthy work National Academies Press. environment in every position she has held. New Jersey Nurse Staff Additionally, the Acting Commissioner supports the Judy Schmidt, Editor National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute Jennifer Chanti, Managing Editor of Medicine (2011) Future of Nursing Leading Dr. Barbara Wright, Executive Editor Change, Advancing Health report recommendation New Jersey Nurse Copy Submission Guidelines: that APNs, RNs, and LPNs practice to their highest All NJSNA members are encouraged to submit material for potential and competencies. publication that is of interest to nurses. The New Jersey Nurse also welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Article submission is preferred “I want NJ nurses to know that my career has in MS Word format, Times New Roman font and can be up to 500 taken me in very different directions but I have never words. When sending pictures, please remember to label pictures regretted going to nursing school and a college of clearly since the editors have no way of knowing who persons in the photos might be.
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