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Volume 25

Number 13

June 27, 2014

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Our Nursing

SUPERSTARS During this year’s annual Nurses Week Award Ceremony, several nurses received special recognition for going the extra mile to provide safe and quality care to our patients. “As I learn more about your accomplishments,” said Regina Cunningham, PhD, HUP’s chief nursing executive, “I can’t tell you how impressed I am, with both your creativity and innovation.”

INSIDE Protect Your Skin This Summer.............................2 An Anniversary to Remember.................................2 Speaking with HUP’s Leaders.......................................3

`` Members of HUP’s Intensive Care Nursery, this year’s winners of the Victoria Rich Patient Satisfaction Award.

The 2014 winner of the Victoria Rich Patient Satisfaction Award was HUP’s Intensive Care Nursery. A new initiative, called Team Nursing, addressed several challenges on the unit, including the number of nurses caring for an infant, the amount of patient movement from one bay to another, and the staff nurses’ lack of primary patients. As part of the model, the staff is divided into two teams, each having responsibility for two bays of patients. Nurses can choose their assignment within their team’s bays. Within six months of initiating, patient transfers within the four bays decreased from a high of 14 to 1. This new consistency of care also resulted in care by a smaller team. Before Team Nursing, an average of more than 10 nurses cared for an infant during a hospital stay. Post change, that number had dropped by more than half.

A Dedication to Patients and Staff This year’s winner of the Joan Bretschneider Shared Governance Leadership Award was Jennifer Perno, BSN, CMSRN, of Founders 14, a unit for non-surgical patients. According to the nomination letter, Perno developed and implemented a falls action plan with the use of the 12-hour bed alarm program. After implementation, “the unit had just 3 falls during the first month and then had the longest record without any falls, 60 days!” She also worked with other staff to develop a script for patients, helping them and their families understand the reasoning behind the initiative. (Continued on page 4)

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