Ms. Rice takes initiative to improve patient care through leadership and working as an integral part of the team. She is an active member of the Caring Hearts committee on 7B and numerous hospital committees, such as the Skin Facilitator Program, Skin At Risk Committee, and Safe Patient Handling Unit Peer Leader Committee. She serves as a unit liaison between nursing and Extension Healthcare, Safe Patient Handling Coordinator, and the nurse educator as a super user for the Red River Phone System, Safe Patient Handling, restraint policy, and Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, and she attends all super user training and incorporates updates into individual and unit staff practice. Ms. Rice performs in-services to educate staff
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While developing the Huddle Sheet, she collaborated with the staff members of 7B and of other medical-surgical units, her nurse manager, assistant nurse manager, and the 7B charges nurses on each shift. When she developed the new report sheet for the nurses and nursing assistants to protect patient privacy, she received feedback from the 7B staff, nurse manager, and assistant nurse manager to design a report sheet that incorporated every pertinent aspect of each patient’s history that enhanced the quality of care through accurate transmission of data at hand-off. She also participated in the “ED Warm Hand-Off” project by educating the 7B staff on the project, was a resource for staff members during implementation, and collaborated with other members of the project to correct problems. She worked with other hospital employees to make an educational tool to identify types of skin breakdown and the correct dressings for each in accordance with the policy. As a member of the Skin Facilitator Interdisciplinary Committee, she participates in Quarterly Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Surveys in a team effort with other Skin Facilitators and the Wound Ostomy Continence …show more content…
She always shares knowledge that she has gained from attending committee meetings and educational presentations through conducting formal in-services for her colleagues. For example, she has initiated and led in-services, such as the “ED Warm Hand-Off” policy, new skin tool, hand hygiene performance, how to place consults, new report sheet, and new huddle sheet. She validates competencies in a timely manner and coordinates with other Unit Peer Leaders to maintain compliance on all Safe Patient Handling equipment. And she educates new staff about policies and procedures and on how to navigate the electronic documentation system. She has also been a primary preceptor for four University nursing students completing their senior capstone course. She has functioned as a mentor and preceptor for multiple nursing students in an ADN program and the VA Learning Opportunity Residency Program students. Students have described her as “an excellent preceptor” and mentor. Other students have stated that they felt like they “greatly improved and progressed by working with her,” and that she always “created an environment conducive to learning.” One student stated, “Because of Faren, I feel prepared to be a nurse!” She always orients new staff members and her students to the culture of the unit and makes herself available as a resource for
While developing the Huddle Sheet, she collaborated with the staff members of 7B and of other medical-surgical units, her nurse manager, assistant nurse manager, and the 7B charges nurses on each shift. When she developed the new report sheet for the nurses and nursing assistants to protect patient privacy, she received feedback from the 7B staff, nurse manager, and assistant nurse manager to design a report sheet that incorporated every pertinent aspect of each patient’s history that enhanced the quality of care through accurate transmission of data at hand-off. She also participated in the “ED Warm Hand-Off” project by educating the 7B staff on the project, was a resource for staff members during implementation, and collaborated with other members of the project to correct problems. She worked with other hospital employees to make an educational tool to identify types of skin breakdown and the correct dressings for each in accordance with the policy. As a member of the Skin Facilitator Interdisciplinary Committee, she participates in Quarterly Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Surveys in a team effort with other Skin Facilitators and the Wound Ostomy Continence …show more content…
She always shares knowledge that she has gained from attending committee meetings and educational presentations through conducting formal in-services for her colleagues. For example, she has initiated and led in-services, such as the “ED Warm Hand-Off” policy, new skin tool, hand hygiene performance, how to place consults, new report sheet, and new huddle sheet. She validates competencies in a timely manner and coordinates with other Unit Peer Leaders to maintain compliance on all Safe Patient Handling equipment. And she educates new staff about policies and procedures and on how to navigate the electronic documentation system. She has also been a primary preceptor for four University nursing students completing their senior capstone course. She has functioned as a mentor and preceptor for multiple nursing students in an ADN program and the VA Learning Opportunity Residency Program students. Students have described her as “an excellent preceptor” and mentor. Other students have stated that they felt like they “greatly improved and progressed by working with her,” and that she always “created an environment conducive to learning.” One student stated, “Because of Faren, I feel prepared to be a nurse!” She always orients new staff members and her students to the culture of the unit and makes herself available as a resource for