Leading to Heal

The Texas Organization for Nursing Leadership selected Nora Frasier Center for the 2022 Excellence in Leadership Award. The award recognizes outstanding leadership in promoting and advancing the recognition of this honor, Nora responded to questions from Arlington Today to take us through her career highlights and achievements. Her answers appear below!

Where did you get your start?

South Texas town to the great Unimy second year, a friend convinced me that nursing school would be a in a hospital as a nursing student. begin my career in Corpus Christi a Catholic hospital which aligned was raised as a nurse by the nuns.

What’s been the greatest surprise or lesson from when you started to you thought they’d be?

The science and technology have evolved exponentially and transformed nursing practice. So many manual processes have been streamlined through technology, and this has actually made patient care safer.

much care to the outpatient setting, and even into the home. And who could have envisioned robotic-assisted surgery 40 years ago when of change is mind-boggling. We continually use the phrase “nurses must be lifelong learners” and this your clinical knowledge and skills up to date with the ever-changing advancements in medicine and the healthcare environment, you will rapidly become obsolete.

What do you think makes your business stand apart from your competitors?

community. They worked tirelessly to save lives – we are so proud of our nurses, physicians, technicians through the darkest of times. And Our team has had a long-standing commitment to excellence. For example, years of hard work culminated in our designation as a Magnet®-recognized hospital which serves as a visible acknowledgement that we have met the most stringent, evidence-based standards of nursing excellence in patient care delivery.

What drove you to achieve?

The desire to lead and the restlessness to want to try new things liked being in charge and having a seat at the table where decisions are made. Problems are like puzzles to me and as my team knows, discover a beautiful cohesive and interconnected picture. Putting an organizational puzzle together can takes immense amounts of energy, joy when it all comes together! became clearly apparent during the pandemic that we have something as our team never wavered in their dedication to be present for our

Who had the single biggest impact on shaping who you are today?

There have been so many wonderful mentors over the years who have pushed me outside of my comfort zone. Early in my career, Sister Kathleen who was the CEO of the Catholic health system where to see the world and broaden my the cord and leave the organization, never been daunted by unknown or uncertain challenges since then. After a few years, Sister Kathleen come back and she re-hired me into a senior leadership role at a new hospital acquired by her health system.