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ABOVE & BEYOND
DERRICK McANALLY NAMED NEWS-STAR 2020 NURSE OF THE YEAR IN CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL NURSE’S WEEK
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LEARNING IN A multigenerational WORKPLACE
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“Don’t prejudge people,” she said. Technology is one area where people often find differences. “Technology isn’t just the realm of the uccessful nurses consider health young. People may think that younger care a team sport. Multiple genpeople may be tech-savvy and older peoerations in the workforce bring ple are not, but that’s not necessarily the unique characteristics, which can reality,” Cardillo said. add challenges but also blend differences Building productive relationships into better patient care. requires education and open channels of “Regardless of age, level of experience, communication. gender, ethnicity or background, diversity “As technology fades in and out, we strengthens the profession,” said regisneed to use what’s available to us,” Cardiltered nurse and nurse practitioner Donna lo said. Different generations may comCardillo, who writes as The Inspiration municate differently. Some may prefer a Nurse. “Everyone brings different perphone call or in-person chat while others spectives, different ideas and skill sets. It’s prefer emails or text. critical that we are able to learn from each Whatever on-the-job other.” system The nursing workforce “Regardless of age, communication is in place needs to work is composed of six generalevel of experience, for everyone, Cardillo tions. said. That may require “That’s unprecedented,” gender, ethnicity education, training and said Cardillo, author of or background, leadership support. “Falling Together: How “We have to make sure to Find Balance, Joy and diversity everyone is on board,” she Meaningful Change When strengthens said. Your Life Seems to be FallTo help build relationthe profession. ing Apart” as well as several ships pair up individuals books on nursing. Starting Everyone across generations, such as with the youngest there are brings different a preceptor with a newly Gen Z, millennials, Gen Y, hired nurse or someone Gen X, baby boomers and perspectives, new to a leadership role some traditionalists who different ideas with a more experienced are in their 80s and 90s. “Everyone has something and skill sets. It’s leader. Each generation values and skills, to learn from someone critical that we are brings and the goal for all is the else,” Cardillo said. able to learn from same: to improve the With the retirement of quality of health, Cardillo boomers and traditionaleach other.” said. ists, many in the industry Donna Cardillo “Have a goal to know worry about these nurses someone in each decade: leaving the profession and 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. We all have something taking their knowledge with them. Yet to offer,” she said. some millennials are already in their 30s When working on projects and comwith years of experience. Younger nurses mittees make sure different voices are have the advantage of being trained in represented. As humans we tend to want newer technologies as well as the energy to be with those who are like us, but it’s and adaptability of youth. so important to spend time with others, To create harmony and cohesion in a Cardillo said. multigenerational workforce, Cardillo “It’s not just older people opening up to suggests appreciating the differences the young. We all have something to learn rather than defining people by their age and to teach.” group. More Content Now
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AI: Supplementing, not replacing, nurses By Melissa Erickson More Content Now
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rtificial intelligence is changing the way nurses care for people. From saving time and money to improving decision making and patient care, innovation in health care now includes AI at the bedside. While we race toward telehealth solutions and increased machine learning, experts stress that robots will not replace nurses. Artificial intelligence can never take the place of the care, skill and art of nursing, said registered nurse Catherine Burger, spokeswoman for RegisteredNursing.org, a nonprofit that promotes education and employment resources. “AI will be challenged to ever have the ability to sense or feel what patients are saying and relate it to the caring connection provided by human touch and connection,” she said.
“Robots can do a lot, though. These new technologies can help nurses do their jobs more efficiently,” said Ping Li, instructor of information management in the College of Nursing at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. In certain situations, for example treating a patient in isolation for COVID-19, a robot with a camera could enter a room and interact with a patient while a nurse remotely controls the robot, viewing the images captured on a computer, Li said. Nurses have witnessed advances in health care technology through the ages. “Not only are we the ones initiating the changes, we are on the front lines to test and tweak the changes, Burger said. “From test-tube babies to angioplasty to robotic surgeries and the electronic health record, nurses are not only present but essential to the success of these improvements.” People often think AI equals robots, but that’s not
the case, Li said. It’s also patients interacting with an iPad logging in to look at lab results, ordering a meal in a hospital and talking to nurses and doctors. “What started with a tool to record health information is rapidly changing into predictability models that can provide nurses information on a patient’s pending decline so they can intervene earlier in the process,” Burger said. Once a certain criteria is met, such as an elevated temperature or lab result, AI triggers an alert for a nurse or other provider to check in on a patient, Li said. Nurses use numerous formats of AI in their practice. “Smart apps now hold the pharmaceutical, pathophysiology and dosage calculations we once held in our brains. The electronic health record allows for clear documentation, communication and even differential diagnosis to help drive care and improve patient outcomes,” Burger said.
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NURSE OF THE YEAR
GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND Derrick McAnally voted News-Star Nurse of the Year to Seminole State College to become a nurse and has greatly enjoyed his job. "What (I) love most about my job (are my) co-workers...You can't really function in the (Emergency Department) without having good teamwork and that's what pushes you is everyone you work with," McAnally said. While he enjoys his profession, the nurse said it's not without its hardships as it can be a challenge to deal with the high stress and tragedy of caring for the health of others. "It can be kind of hard and draining. You get a lot of sick patients that demand a lot of your time and it can be tough sometimes," McAnally said. "Then you see a lot of tragedies." The medical professional said it's his passion to be hardworking that keeps him going and that makes his job worth it. As time goes on McAnally said he
hopes to stay at SSM Health St. Anthony-Shawnee until he finishes his nursing career.
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Shawnee nurse Derrick McAnally was voted the 2020 News-Star Nurse of the Year and will receive a cash prize and a plaque for his hard work and dedication to his patients and the community. According to McAnally, he has been a nurse for over ten years, currently works in the Emergency Department at SSM Health St. Anthony-Shawnee and is very happy to receive this award. "That's a lot of good nurses that are on that list and I just think it's an honor to win something like (this)," McAnally said. "It's kind of putting it out there that the job is important...and we do a
lot of good things. It's making us feel like we're important." McAnally said in addition to the fact that he comes from a family of medical professionals, he was also inspired to become a nurse after seeing how one treated and took care of his family while his grandfather struggled with cancer and after he died. "My grandpa was in the hospital with cancer and there was a male nurse and he kind of looked out for us...I though that was kind of cool," McAnally said.
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TOP 10 NOMINATIONS FOR NURSE OF THE YEAR Nurse of the Year Nominations as They Were Submitted
CaSandra Shirey
Amanda Frank
I would like to nominate CaSandra Shirey for a salute to nurses. She is married to an EMS employee here at REACT so her whole family is subject to the hectic schedule of the medical field. She volunteered to help with ACLS drills for new staff. She has always been interested in cardiac patients and emergency care. She wants to make a difference in the life of others. She is quick to jump in and help any of her team. She is always willing to come in and fill a shift for someone that needs time off for their family. She is always willing to step up and lead the team. She has made the difference in the lives of pediatric patients as well. One of the compliments that I have received is how she treated the pediatric patient. She was kind and soft spoken and very patient. She took the time to explain what she was doing so that the child would understand and would be less afraid.
I am saluting Amanda Frank as the best nurse I know. As an adult of 37 years old with a pre-schooler and a third-grader as well as a teenage son, Amanda went back to school to be a nurse. She already had her own business as a licensed cosmetologist. She went to school at Gordon Cooper Technology Center and became an LPN. She went to work at St. Anthony’s Clinic. She worked in Dr. Dye’s office, the orthopedist. She then went to work in Dr. Holter’s office. He is an internist and pediatrician. She has worked there for four years. She has prepared to work in the coronavirus testing clinic by taking all the training needed. She is waiting for her time to be there. Amanda is also going to Seminole State College and is studying Early Childhood Development. After working at the clinic all day, she comes home to helping her third-grader and sixth-grader with home schooling and doing her own homework also. Amanda’s husband, Cory, was in the Middle East for a year during Desert Storm and now works at Tinker. Amanda is a great example of a modern working woman. She is the sweetest person I
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OCCUPATION: RN, 2 Years, SSM Health
Chelsea Carsten
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OCCUPATION: LPN, SSM Health Physicians know. She always has a smile on her face and a cheerful word. I never hear her complain. Never! She loves to cook and has taught herself to can food. She makes jelly and jam in the summer and gives away what her family doesn’t use. Thank you for allowing me to recognize her.
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Chelsea Carsten RN, SSM Health Shawnee, Acute Care, has been a nurse for 5 years. Chelsea is the definition of a team player and in the nursing field, being a team player is crucial. She is always willing to give a hand in any situation. She is knowledgeable and caring towards all the patients and staff. She lifts our spirits with that smile of hers!! Even though she has a young family, if needed she is always willing to come in to help the team.
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Bri Dawley, RN, ICU nursing director – Best practice implementation for patient care. Bri started her research on “best practice” care for critically ill respiratory patients — the use of proning patients with respiratory illness to increase their survival with COVID-19 and preparing and educating the entire ICU nursing staff to have the tools and knowledge to care and treat our COVID patients. Bri has spent countless hours here at the hospital making sure our critical care staff is prepared to serve our community.
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TOP 10 NOMINATIONS FOR NURSE OF THE YEAR Nurse of the Year Nominations as They Were Submitted
Brayden Robbins
Dana Rackley
I would like to nominate Brayden Robbins. She is an LPN at the Harrah Nursing center. Brayden goes above and beyond every single day! She cares for her patients like they are her own family! During this difficult time, patients can’t have family come to visit so she makes sure she is right there by their side through everything. She checks in with family members daily to keep them up to date. She does so many things that are not included in her “job title” and I know so many are very thankful for her!
Dana Rackly, LPN, SSM Health Shawnee, Acute Care, has been a nurse for 12 years. Dana has the biggest heart for her patients. She truly listens to her patients and often is seen in rooms, just being there for them and letting them share their stories with her. She develops relationships with her patients, many of them sending in letters of praise about her specifically. Her team always appreciates all the help she provides to them as well, often being heard over our walkies, asking if anyone needs help.
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OCCUPATION: LPN, Harrah Nursing Center
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Stephanie Lawrence
Amanda ‘Mandy’ Sims
Stephanie Lawrence RN, BSN works at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Stephanie was born and raised in Shawnee and Tecumseh and has lived here most of her life. She is a single mom of two wonderful kids and enjoys spending time with them as much as possible. At work, Stephanie is an amazing nurse and puts her knowledge to use with care and compassion. Many nurses, including myself, look up to her as a dedicated, hard-working and knowledgeable resource with many years of experience. Patients love her calm demeanor, quick wit and her ability to make them comfortable and confident in their care. Stephanie graduated Seminole State’s RN program in 2003. She had so much determination to earn her BSN while managing a household, raising two kids and working a full time job, that she applied for a BSN program. Not only did she earn her BSN; she earned it with honors! Stephanie exemplifies what nursing was meant to be- compassionate, competent care and a determination to heal with not only knowledge, but
Starting in the nursing profession can be extremely tough as there are many new experiences that new nurses face, from technology to death and dying and prioritizing and knowing how to handle difficult situations. Many times new nurses may doubt their own knowledge and when this happens being able to ask for a second opinion until one’s confidence is built can mean the world to a new nurse…it is a life saver! The name that is heard over and over for being this nurse is Mandy Sims. Mandy has been explained as the one who will not only be the second set of eyes but will also use the experience as a “teaching moment”. One nurse explained, “Mandy is always willing to assist and when she is around in any situation you feel that everything will be alright.” She shows compassion and excellence in all that she does. No matter what, we have all started as the “newbie” and we can remember the people who mentored us…the bad,
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with your heart. Stephanie is what every nurse should aspire to be. Please consider her for this nursing award. I would love for a nurse that is so deserving to be honored.
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OCCUPATION: BNS Prepared Nurse, 19 Years, SSM Health the care she bestows on her patients is contagious to the nurses and staff around her. So Cherri thank you for being an amazing nurse. Our team appreciates all that you do! I am blessed to get to learn and work along side you.
ALL 2020 Nominations for Nurse of the Year Aaron Blankenship Amanda Frank Autumn Simms Becky Snowden Brandi Parson Bri Dawley Andrea Jones Brayden Robbins CaSandra Shirey Cherri Moore
Derrick McAnally Devyn Chartney Kacie (Ksenia) Fisher Matt Brown McKenzie Gilbert Michael & Sierra Potter Rebbecca Castaneda Donna Kisch Mandy Sims
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the good and the amazing, to know that Mandy is impacting so many of our new nurses is a true blessing.
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Cherri Moore I would like to tell you about Cherri Moore. She is a BSN prepared nurse from OBU and she has been a nurse since July 2001. She has worked for St. Anthony’s since they were bought out in 2012. She worked at the Mission Hill campus when it was unified and became Unity Hospital. Once the Mission Hill campus closed, Cherri moved to the Acute Care unit at the Unity campus in 2003. She has worked for SSM health since. She is very competent in her care in which she takes her knowledge and experience and helps teach and care for not only her patients, but the entire department. She is a strong positive nurse that is always willing to teach and lead her fellow nurses. Cherri is the epitome of caring and dedication to the field of nursing. She has personally taken me under her wing and has guided me in my own roll of leadership. She instills passion and dedication in all she does. She is the matriarch of integrity and honor in the emergency room and within her own life. Nursing is not just a job to Cherri, it is her calling, her fate and her passion. She lives this daily and
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Sean Dugan Stephanie Lawrence Taylor Basista Chelsea Carsten Sylvia Copeland Dana Rackley Anna Kae Morris Kristy Sue Jaynes Kathleen M. Carter Yvette Alderson
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I would like to nominate Matt Brown for a super nurse. He started out as a tech here and graduated last year. He wants to eventually work as a CRNA. He has four kids and a wife who is in nursing school. Matt is a local community member that likes spending time with his family outdoors. A patient came in through the front with chest pain and thought he was having a heart attack and very upset. As soon as he got into a room, his heart stopped and we performed CPR. The spouse came in and saw Matt performing chest compressions to save the man’s life. He survived with 40% of heart damaged. The man and his wife ended up coming back to thank Matt for saving his life. They felt that he would not have been here today if Matt had not been in the room and acted quickly to perform life-saving tasks.
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or first-generation students, nursing school is a vigorous endeavor. It takes inner strength, a drive to succeed and the support of community to turn a dream into reality. Over a decade ago, Tanya Piazza was a young single mother forced to choose between her passion and the need to provide for her family. “My daughter and I had life challenges and that included a pivotal point of working or staying in school to complete the nursing program. … I had been through tough times before and the toll was getting too much,” said Piazza, who is now a registered nurse with two master’s degrees and is the registered nurse residency program manager at Adventist Health White Memorial, Los Angeles. What made the difference was an innovative partnership between the Adventist Health White Memorial hospital, community colleges and TELACU, a health careers and community development program in East L.A. Established almost 20 years ago, the program was created by TELACU in response to the need for culturally responsive, Span-
ish-speaking nurses in the community, said Alicia Gonzalez, spokeswoman for Adventist Health Southern California Region. Within the program, more than 160 first-generation residents in the Hispanic-majority community have been trained in nursing. Of these, 100% received registered nurse licensing, 70% pursued advanced degrees and 90% stayed at Adventist Health White Memorial after three years. In November 2019 the program was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence. “Our community had some of the lowest employment in the state; nursing offered high paying professional careers to local youth,” Gonzalez said. “And this is how you community-build. People get jobs, and then they buy from the stores in the community and buy local houses and they are role models who encourage others to go to college.” The program works by developing a local talent pool of registered nurses who are equipped to provide culturally sensitive, in-language nursing. In addition to financial scholarships the program
provides a yearlong support system with comprehensive training and resources such as job-readiness services, professional development seminars, one-on-one academic and professional counseling and more. After graduation and licensing, nurses are offered employment at a partnering hospital, like Adventist Health White Memorial, Gonzalez said. The program is more than financial assistance and a job. “It provides real conversations like budgeting, study tips, a community of people with a similar goal, a place to vent and be vulnerable even for an hour and then go out and keep pushing,” Piazza said. “TELACU is not a scholarship, it is an investment in a person. That’s what they did for me and my daughter. We pushed through, I finished nursing school with
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orking at the bedside with prolonged contact with patients, nurses are in the best position to act as their advocates. “I consider it a big part of my role,” said clinical registered nurse Emma Lazar of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, chairwoman of Rush’s legislative policy and advocacy committee. In addition to spending the most time with patients, nurses also get to know their families and support systems, their health goals, resources, level of knowledge about their health plans, concerns and fears, Lazar said. There’s a reason nurses have been ranked as the most trusted profession for 18 years straight by the Gallup poll. “Patients share what’s on their minds, their needs and concerns. This communication greatly enhances our ability to advocate, and we have to honor that,” said Janice Phillips, associate professor of nursing at Rush University College of Nursing and director of nursing
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the financial assistance and the unbelievable mentorship.” First-generation nurses are determined students. “Most of them are still having to work part time and many of the women became mothers at a young age,” Gonzalez said. “They must have a deep passion to serve as a nurse. When we interview them, you can just tell how much they have dreamed of becoming a nurse. They just need a little help.” For younger nurses starting on their journey, Piazza offers encouragement although challenges lie ahead. “You can do it! Understand that every situation or hard time is just a passing moment,” she said. “Push through the challenge. Things will fall into place so don’t give up! If this girl can do it, so can you.”
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research and health equity, Rush University Medical Center. “With the collective knowledge and experience that they have, nurses can offer advocacy through education and support,” said registered nurse Becky Waldman, vice president of clinical service and quality assurance with WINFertility, who oversees all WIN nurse care managers. “Nurses can take time to listen and guide patients through unique situations that often are complex and emotional.” Nurses have always been patient advocates, but the role is changing with nurses now more trusted as equal partners on a interdisciplinary team, Lazar said. In addition to ensuring patient safety, giving them a voice and connecting them with resources, nurses now sit on advisory councils, hospital boards and committees and are charged with making policy decisions. “More and more we are getting a seat at the table,” Phillips said. “There’s more work to do, but we’re sitting at the table where decisions about regulations and health policy are made.” Nurses are not only advocates across the lifespan, from newly born babies to the oldest people, they
also support people of all racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds and people of the LBGTQ communities, Phillips said. “We are mindful of everyone who enters our doors,” she said. However, they know not everyone is equal or has equal access to things like transportation, housing, food and health care. “The most challenging and rewarding part of being a patient advocate is to partner with the patient through difficult situations and to feel like you have made a difference regardless of the outcome,” Waldman said. “With infertility, often it takes time to achieve a pregnancy and to deliver a baby. Each step of the way can be overwhelming, especially for an infertility patient who has invested time and resources into becoming pregnant. When a patient shares that she has delivered her baby, that is the most rewarding part of our role.” Lazar treasures her ability to bring a patient from feeling overwhelmed to feeling empowered. “It sustains my passion to give patients the tools they need to direct their own health care,” she said.
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merica needs more nurses. As we live longer and the need for health care increases, especially among those with chronic illnesses, the U.S. is running short on registered nurses. Among job seekers interest in nursing is high. It is among the top health care occupations, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting a significant 12% job growth by 2028 and possibly over 1 million nursing job openings by 2022. Supply cannot meet demand, though. An estimated 200,000 new registered nurses would need to enter the workforce each year to keep up, according to RegisteredNursing.org. Currently nurses make up the largest majority in health care, with about 4 million in the United States, according to the organization. “This is not a new phenomenon. We’ve had heightened shortages before. It’s cyclical. It ebbs and flows,” said Dr. Catherine Mann, assistant dean for undergraduate studies in the School of Nursing at University at Buffalo. The last big nursing shortage occurred around 2001, she said. The current shortages could become a longterm problem especially in certain areas including the Southern and Western United States, ac-
cording to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The reasons are widespread and varied. “More nurses are retiring than entering the profession, there are not enough nursing faculty to teach the amount of students necessary to replace those retiring, and it is a tough field to work in with a high burnout rate,” said nurse practitioner and nutrition expert Cynthia Thurlow, who previously worked as an emergency room nurse. Work-related injuries are a top reason nurses leave the profession, said Christine T. Kovner, Mathy Mezey professor of geriatric nursing at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing and a senior faculty associate at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. “They hurt their backs and necks, stick themselves with needles. There are many preventable injuries,” Kovner said. Simple tasks like handling and moving patients are more difficult now with 28% of Americans saying they weighed 200 pounds or more between 2010 and 2019, according to a recent Gallup poll. The average American now weighs 178 pounds. A hostile work environment also pushes nurses out of the profession, said Kovner, who studies new nurses as they become more experinced. “Nurses eat their
young,” a phrase coined by nursing professor Judith Meissner, refers to a culture of bullying, hazing and initiation. “The people who get promoted to nurse managers tend to be excellent nurses but are often not trained in management skills,” Kovner said. Nursing shortages affect patient safety, Mann said. Lower numbers of nurses can lead to failure to rescue and can impact death, she said. To handle the challenge, not only are more education and faculty needed but increases in state and federal funding to help new nurses pay for school, Mann said. Nursing faculty also need to be well paid to train the next generation. There is little to no incentive for those in private practice to leave to take nursing faculty positions or work on advanced degrees, Thurlow said. It is also important to get the word out that being a nurse opens many options throughout a career, from bedside nursing to administration, advanced practice, academics and more, Thurlow said. “I truly love being a nurse. It is one of the most gratifying things I ever chose to do and be, but we have to start providing incentives to encourage people into the profession, legislate for safer staffing ratios and compensation, and work diligently on compensating nursing faculty,” she said.
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