Hartford Hospital Nursing Magazine, Autumn 2013
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Nursing FOR HARTFORD HOSPITAL NURSES AND ALUMNAE OF THE HARTFORD HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING AUTUMN 2013 Hartford Hospital’s Nursing Professional Practice Model was created by nurses, for nurses. Introduced in spring 2013, it is a visible symbol of the complex undertaking that is the practice of nursing. The model serves as a guide to nursing practice for nurses throughout Hartford Hospital. On the cover: Case Coordinator Lisa Skowronek, BSN, RN, ACM Photo by Lanny Nagler Hartford Hospital Nursing For Hartford Hospital Nurses and Alumnae of the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing Volume IV, Issue 2, Autumn 2013 CONTENTS 2 Letters to Our Readers Messages from the chief operating officer of Hartford HealthCare and the vice president of patient care services 3 Nursing News & Notes 4 The ETHICS of Nursing Schwartz Center Rounds® 6 The ART of Nursing Patterns of Caring 8 The SCIENCE of Nursing Nursing Promotes Interprofessional Education 11 The ADVOCACY of Nursing Case Coordination 14 Scenes from Nurses Week 2013 15 A message from the president of the Alumnae Association 16 Alumnae Spotlight Called to Teach 17 A Look Back Guardian of History 18 The PILLBOX Alumnae News News and photos from our graduates 21 In Memoriam Advisory Board Send correspondence to: Cheryl Ficara, RN, MS, NEA-BC Hartford Hospital Nursing Vice President, Patient Care Services 80 Seymour Street Hartford Hospital Hartford, CT 06102-5037 Gail Nelson, RN, MS, NEA-BC Attention: Cheryl Ficara, RN, MS, NEA-BC Director of Professional Development Vice President, Patient Care Services and Performance Improvement Hartford Hospital Hartford Hospital e-mail: [email protected] Betty Ann Fusco, RN Alumnae Association of the Nursing President, Alumnae Association of the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing Hartford Hospital School of Nursing, HHSN ’66 560 Hudson Street Editorial Staff Patricia Andreana Ciarcia, RN, MSN Hartford, CT 06106 Noreen S. Kirk, Editor/Writer Executive Director of Alumnae Affairs, Attention: Pat Ciarcia, RN, MSN Ellen L. Franks, Editor/Writer Alumnae Association of the Hartford Hospital Executive Director of Alumnae Affairs Alan Colavecchio, Designer School of Nursing, HHSN ’62 e-mail: [email protected] Lanny Nagler and Cill Russo, Photographers Tel: 860.563.2005 Hartford Hospital Nursing is a publication of the Hartford Hospital Department of Nursing and the Alumnae Association of the Hartford Hospital School of Nursing. HARTFORD HOSPITAL NURSING / AUTUMN 2013 1 Letters to Our Readers The Journey Continues A Model Milestone At Hartford Hospital— and It was just about a year ago that throughout the Hartford the new Nursing Professional HealthCare system—we’re Practice Model was introduced continuing our transformational throughout Hartford Hospital. journey to higher quality, better The first model of its kind, it outcomes, lower costs, greater was the product of the time, patient satisfaction and energy and insights of many, evidence-based care. It’s critical that we make this many nurses. As we mark this one-year milestone, I’m journey together, not only because today’s health delighted to say that the model has received broad care environment demands it, but our patients and acceptance and validation, both here at Hartford their families deserve it. Hospital and among nurses at other Hartford As administrators, my colleagues and I are HealthCare partners. responsible for ensuring that Hartford Hospital and The strength of the model lies, I think, in the way it HHC partners do everything necessary to adapt to distills into a clear image the complex undertaking that the sweeping changes taking place in the larger is nursing. Based on the values we all agree upon and universe of health care. Yet we recognize that each with the human health experience at its core, the hospital’s overall success actually boils down to model shows how different aspects of nursing individual human interactions—the experience of contribute to the overall experience. each patient and each family member. Among all professions, nurses are in a unique Nurses are at the heart of the human experience. position to affect the human health experience. Our Each of you is in a unique position to make a outstanding partners in other disciplines are crucial to difference in the lives of our patients and those who our patients’ care. But while their roles require them to care about them. It’s clear that you take your role leave the bedside, we are always there. We are the ones seriously. Your commitment is evident in a partnering with patients directly, developing quantitative way when I see the tremendous strides relationships, and advocating for patients and their we’ve made in quality measures. It’s evident in a families, all while providing exemplary care. Nurses are personal way when I walk through units and see you also the linchpins in the care continuum. Our case give your very best to each patient and family and to coordinators, navigators and case managers collaborate each other. Increasingly, it is evident in the vital role with bedside nurses and other disciplines to link nurses play in ensuring that patients receive patients to proper levels of care and to needed services. appropriate, coordinated care across the continuum. Nurses are also critical to helping the hospital In this issue, you’ll read about some of the ways transition to a new era in health care. When I entered nurses are enriching the human health experience at the nursing profession, a hospital’s role was simply to Hartford Hospital. Their stories could be multiplied treat the sick. Now and in the future, all hospitals must many times over. So thank you—for all you do to focus on helping people maintain optimal health. help, heal and guide our patients and for being Nurses, in their roles as educators, communicators and leaders in this all-important journey. coordinators, can make all the difference when it comes to helping patients understand how to preserve their own health. And that’s yet another way to enhance the human health experience. Thank you for your spirited response to the Nursing Professional Practice Model. I hope you’ll enjoy reading in this issue about how some of our nurses are Jeffrey A. Flaks exemplifying the model in their own practice. Chief Operating Officer Hartford HealthCare Cheryl Ficara, RN, MS, NEA-BC Vice President, Patient Care Services 2 HARTFORD HOSPITAL NURSING / AUTUMN 2013 Nursing News & Notes We congratulate these Hartford Hospital nurses on their recent achievements. Case Coordination Multidisciplinary STAR Keith Bergeron, RN; Dan DiTommaso, Christine Waszynski, RN, MSN GNP- Jessica LeRoux, MSN, RN, earned her RN; Mary Vanessa Evans, RN; Sharon BC; Julie Michaelson, RN; Elizabeth MSN in education and published an Sideranko, RN; Lisa Skowronek, RN; E.C. Udeh, PharmD, BCPS; Lanetta online article, “Patient Assignments and Michelle Wallace, RN, earned Gann, RN-C; and Mary Kate for Float Nurses,” in Advance Healthcare their ACM (Accredited Case Manager Eanniello, RN, MSN, OCN, CHPN, Network for Nurses. certification). presented the workshop session, Violet Moses, RN, BSN, earned her “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Michelle Berube, RN, and Janis MSN in education from Elms College. Implementing a Hospital-Wide Vannais, RN, earned their CPHM Delirium Prevention and Management (Certified Professional in Healthcare Program” at the American Delirium Surgery Management) certification. Society’s Third Annual Conference, John Vanjah, CCRN, (B7I) earned his Beth Lawlor, RN, BSN, MS, CCM, June 2-4, 2013, Indianapolis, Ind. Certified Critical Care Registered recently earned her NEA-BC and Nurse designation. CPHM (Certified Professional in Healthcare Management) Neuro, Ortho, Trauma Ifeoma Mogor, RN, MSN, (B8) earned certifications. Samantha Wilson, BSN, and Christina ANCC certification in medical-surgical nursing (RN-BC) Fonnie Montero, RN, earned her MSN McGurl, RN, earned their ONC from the University of Hartford (Orthopedic Nurse Certification). Maureen M. Zukauskas, RN, MS, ACM, Women’s Health CPHM, was elected president, Publications The OB OR Reorganization Team American Case Management leaders, Sara Garcia, RNC; Carrie Association, Connecticut Chapter, in Danette Alexander, RN, MSN, NEA- Ferrindino, RNC; and Deb Gingras, May 2013, and earned her CPHM BC, and Christine Waszynski, RN, MS, RN, CSN, gave an oral (Certified Professional in Healthcare MSN, GNP-BC, published an article, presentation about their research and Management) certification. “Journey to a Safe Environment; Fall experience on “Staffing Levels in the Prevention in an Emergency OR” at the 2013 AWHONN National Department at a Level 1 Trauma Convention in June. Medicine, Oncology, Center,” in the Journal of Emergency IV Therapy Nursing. Sonia Alves, RN-BC; Heather Dibble, Ellen Blair, APRN, NEA, BC, and RN-BC; Julian Forbes Samuels, RN-BC; Christine Waszynski, APRN, MSN, and Donna Shaw, RN-BC, from CB5 GNP-BC, were recently published in and Dana Saccomani, RN-BC, from the April 2013 edition of Advances for B5E have earned ANCC Certification Nurses. Their article was entitled: in Medical-Surgical Nursing (RN-BC). "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Fall Congratulations to those Prevention in an Inpatient Psychiatric Melissa Hernandez, RN, from B11I Hospital Setting." who earned nursing and Tasha Thomas, RN, and Renata Zukowski, RN, from CB5 earned BSN Jennifer Moller, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, degrees: degrees. was recently published in the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic & Neonatal Yarelis Wilson, RN, BSN,