Recognitions

Commitment!

Curiosity!

Ellen Harvey, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, TCRN, FCCM Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital - Trauma Services Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation 2020

Ellen was selected as one of the recipients of the Presidential Citation for her extraordinary contributions of time, energy, and resouces to the

Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) during 2020. The Society established the Presidential Citation Award in 1995 to honor SCCM members who have made outstanding contirbutions to the organization.

Leigh Anne Nordt, BSN, RN Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital - Case Management Innovation While Responding to the Pandemic!

Leigh Anne saw an unmet need to improve safety procedures to address unintended administration of medication through IV lines. Using her duties as a nurse as a springboard, Leigh Anne designed a device that will act as an additional layer of protection combined with current safety procedures. Her efforts will prevent unintentional drug administration accidents. She is collaborating with Virginia Tech on prototype development. More than 70 inventions have been presented to Carilion Clinic

Innovation (CCI) to prototype, test and determine if they can improve our work, be licensed to an industry partner or be spun off as a private entity.

Compassion & Commitment!

Sandy Sayre, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, TCRN, FCCM Nursing Senior Director, CVI Surgery Carilion Shine Awards Presidents Award

President and CEO, Nancy Agee, awarded Sandy Sayre the Presidents Award at the 2021 Carilion Shine Awards. Nancy celebrated Sandy for her 31 year career as a professional nurse and her dedication to patients and colleagues. The Carilion CEO recognized Sandy’s committment to the community for her goal of obtaining her nurse practitioner’s degree in order to be able to develop a free clinic for the homeless at the Roanoke Rescue Mission.

Commitment!

DeEtta Ray, DNP Carilion Clnic Cardiology - New River Valley Carilion Shine Awards Provider Excellence Award - Award for Advanced Clinical Practitioners

Dr. Patrice Weiss, Carilion Chief Medical Officer awarded DeEtta Ray the

Provider Excellence award for exemplifying excellence to patients, families, staff and providers. DeEtta has been an advanced care practitioner for 24 years and initiated the CNRV Heart Failure Program and the on-site pharmacy for outpatient visits. Her leadership and innovation impact many in the New River Valley.

See additional Shine Awards on pages 22-23

Curiosity!

Courage!

Cheryl Bennett, MSN, RN, CNOR, Karen Kline, BSN, RN, CNOR, Cathy Jennings, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, Kim Carter, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, Ellen Lockhart, Mariana Salamoun. Carilion Vascular OR - 2017 Carilion Nursing Research Fellowship - Health Analytics Research

Carilion Shine Awards - 2021 Quality Awards Pioneer Award

This 2017 Nursing Research Fellowship Team was awarded the Pioneer Award, which is an award for projects that have a smaller, focused scope.The project was titled, Enhanced Communication to Reduce

Intraoperative Surgical Site Antibiotics for Vascular Surgery Patients.

Reducing unnecessary antibiotics prior to surgery allowed for lowered costs for both patients and Carilion.This measure comes after 2 years of research.

Ghislaine Cady, BSN, RN, Karrie Moses, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Lisa Osborne, BSN, RN, Ross Cleaveland, MBA, Jane Colwell, MSN, RN, Patrick Randolph, BS, ASRC Carilion Pediatrics Carilion Shine Awards - 2021 Quality Awards Enterprise Award

The Enterprise Award recognizes cross disciplinary team projects with a larger scope. The Carilion Children’s team project was titled Journey Towards Zero Harm. The team recognized a need to restructure the quality program to shift from a reactive to proactive approach. They increased weekly quality huddles, benchmarked with other children’s hospitals across the country and have adopted a just culture approach by awarding event reporting.

See additional Shine Awards on pages 22-23

Commitment!

Michelle Franklin, MSN, RN, Niki Hale, BSN, RN, Karrie Moses, MSN,

RN, NE-BC, Claudia Newton, MSN, RN, Dr. Lisa Andruscavage, Dr. Hirenkumar Patel Carilion Women’s Services/Carilion Pediatric Services Carilion Shine Awards - 2021 Hold the Gains Award

Hold-the Gains Award is given to a team that maintains improvement efforts on a project previously submitted for quality awards.The title of the winning project is HUGS (Helping us Grow Strong) Nursery: A New Approach to Treating NAS.The HUGS model was established in 2018, opening a nursery to support minimal pharmacological treatment for infants showing symptoms of withdrawal due to prenatal drug exposure.The outcomes of this project reduced length of treatment from 90 days to 7.6 days in 2019 and just 5.8 days in 2020. This is a testament to the committment of providing the best care possible for our patients.

(l-r: Karrie Moses, Michelle Franklin, Niki Hale, Claudia Newton)

See additional Shine Awards on pages 22-23

Compassion!

Brooke Hickman, BSN, RN, CMSRN CRMH 11 West—Unit Director Arnold P. Gold Champions of Humanistic Care Award

Brooke has been selected as one of the three VTC/Carilion Clinic recipients of an Arnold P. Gold Champions of Humanistic Care. The three honorees will receive a certificate from the Gold Foundation and will be celebrated at their

Annual Gala on June 10, 2021. The names of the 3 recipients will also be listed on their website and in their digital gala program.The Gold foundation champions humanism in healthcare, which they define as compassionate, collaborative, and scientifically excellent care.

Collaboration!

Collaboration!

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital 10M PCU 2021 Sustainability Hero Awards Winner Pulse Oximeter Waste Reduction - Gold Winner

10 MPCU led a project to improve sustainability and cost savings through a pulse oximetry related product change. It was identified that pulse oximetry probes were the most expensive item in the unit’s nonbillable supply budget. Unit leadership met with a product representative, and the group identified inefficiency and waste resulting from the current process of replacing the probe whenever the probe came off the patient or it was soiled. Replacement Adhesive Tape was proposed as the solution. Implementation of the tape has saved an average of $1,711/month. In Novemeber alone, the unit reduced the number of probes they utilized by 62%, diverting an average of 6.83 lbs of waste per month.

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Endoscopy Department (RNs) 2021 Sustainability Hero Awards Winner

Recycling Waste Reduction, Cost Savings and More Bronze Winner

This team is dedicated to sustainability and has various programs in place to reduce waste and costs. These include recycling, donating soft plastics to local organizations to be recycled for park benches, educating staff on what can be recycled (specifically things you may not typically think of), energy conservation efforts, adjusting linen, food supply, and instrument supply par levels to reduce unnecessary overstocking, labeling of procedural instruments that may be commonly mistaken for other instruments to prevent accidentally opening (and then wasting) the wrong item, using washcloths instead of disposable wipes, reprocessing pulse oximeters, emailing work schedules to staff to prevent multiple printouts, using reusable monogrammed mugs provided by the director to avoid use of disposable cups, draining IV fluid bags to decrease the weight and volume of trash, wearing reusable cloth bonnets instead of disposable ones, and ongoing research for additional ways to be more sustainable.

Commitment!

Mary Dillon, RN Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital PICU 2021 Sustainability Hero Indiviual Award Winner Soft Plastics Recycling - Platinum Winner

Mary began a soft-plastics recycling program on Peds and PICU in May of 2017. She is close to a total of 1,500 lbs of plastic that she has diverted from the landfill and recycled. She collects the plastic, weighs it, and takes it to the local retailers for recycling. Not only does this work to help keep plastics out of our landfills but also reduces costs by avoided waste disposal fees. Her passion has inspired many others to participate in this community project.

Collaboration!

2021 Sustainability Hero Awards - Honorable Mention

CRMH 10 West Nonbillable Supply Cost and Waste Reduction, Soft-Plastic Recycling

CRMH 9M ICU Nonbillable Supply Cost and Waste Reduction

CRMH 4 West Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices

Sandra Hammock, LPN Southest Family Medicine Smoking Education Board