Nursing at Methodist North
As the Chief Nursing Officer, I am delighted to welcome you in to learn more about the caring, compassionate, and innovative contributions our professional nurses at Methodist North Hospital are achieving. Even in the midst of a pandemic, from the moment you enter the doors of North Hospital you will feel the genuine, heartfelt concern and compassion each nurse has for patients, families and one another.
In partnership with our interprofessional colleagues, we use evidenced-based and best practices to deliver care to achieve excellent outcomes for the patients and families served. The ability to attain nursing excellence stems from a healthy and robust practice environment that promotes professional development and achievement.
Using our Professional Practice Model and the Magnet® model as frame-works, our nurses at Methodist North Hospital aspire to be leaders in elevating and transforming care for adults in the acute care setting. Our commitment to “Improve Every Life We touch” and to our culture of delivering compassionate care was affirmed in October 2019 as the Commission on Magnet Recognition conferred Magnet recognition upon our hospital.
I hope this inspires you to explore the web page and meet our extraordinary Methodist North family of nurses and multidisciplinary partners.
Our Shared Governance model empowers nurses to participate in decision making. This gives them a voice regarding their work environment and practices. At Methodist North, each nursing unit (and some non-nursing/procedural units) have a Unit
The UPC examines practice, quality, and competency to achieve exceptional work environments and out-comes. Members of these unit councils participate in the facility Nursing Practice Council (NPC), where they can share their opportunities and successes from the UPC and also influence hospital-wide nursing.
Our CNO is a member of the NPC along with representatives from Quality, Education, and Patient Experience. Other disciplines and councils often seek input and direction from the NPC. Our councils utilize evidence based practice, professional and clinical standards, and patient family centered principals to develop and implement patient care processes. Shared Governance promotes autonomy in nursing and collaboration across disciplines allowing us to provide efficient, quality care a team while working at the top of our practice.
Our professional nursing practice is anchored and driven by the five Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Values: Service, Quality, Integrity, Teamwork and Innovation. Patients and families are at the heart of all we do and caring is the work we do.
Our work is supported by the foundational principles in our professional practice model. Transformational Leadership at all levels lays the ground work for the processes and structures that allow for exceptional Patient Care Delivery. Our success in caring for our patients and families is strengthened and supported by the Professional Relationships we build and the Achievement & Recognition we embrace.
Patient Care Delivery
The way nurses deliver care is represented by compassion, innovation, and evidence-based practice focused on the patient and family. Nurses provide care through our commitment to the following:
Compassion
- We support the patient and family spiritually, physically and emotionally.
- We serve with a compassionate spirit and treat others with dignity and respect.
- We recognize the nurse/patient relationship is an important factor in
- the healing process.
Evidence-based Practice
- We use evidence and best practices to guide, support, and improve patient outcomes
- We use evidence and best practices to guide, support and improve patient outcomes.
- We are engaged in data collection and analysis to improve practice.
- We are committed to the advancement of nursing through research and dissemination of the findings.
Innovation
- We are personally willing to change. We are personally willing to change. We are curious and openly seek new approaches, processes, technology and practices to improve outcomes.
- We collaborate with patients, families and our team to implement new ways of improving the health care experience.
Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership consists of shared governance, professionalism, and stewardship that is focused on the patient and family. The basis for our excellent professional practice begins with strong leadership. We are committed to the following:
Shared Governance
- Nurses are empowered to make a difference through active involvement in decisions that affect nursing practice.
- Structures support the voice of our profession. We define, promote and evaluate our practice through the voice of the nurse.
- There are three levels within our shared governance structure: Unit-Based Clinical Practice Councils, Support Councils, and Coordinating Councils.
Professionalism
- We recognize and maintain boundaries that establish appropriate limits to relationships.
- We promote active involvement in nursing professional organizations.
- We conduct ourselves and behave in ways that exemplify the professional nurse.
Stewardship
- We accept and honor the trust placed in us through our faith-based mission.
- We follow through on all commitments.
- We maximize care by wisely using our resources.
Achievement and Recognition
Achievement and Recognition consists of lifelong learning, professional development, acknowledgement and celebration that is focused on the patient and family. We support our nursing practice through achievement and recognition. We are committed to the following:
Lifelong Learning
- We are curious and seek new approaches, processes, technology and practices to improve outcomes.
- We own and promote opportunities for professional growth.
- We recognize that learning is an ongoing process whereby both the learner and the teacher grow.
Professional Development
- We create an atmosphere that promotes personal and professional growth and change. We support growth through both formal and informal processes.
- We provide opportunities to achieve professional goals.
- Professional development programs include RISE (RNs in Search of Excellence), a clinical ladder for the bedside nurse, financial support for specialty certification and nursing scholarships
Acknowledgement
- We value the accomplishments of our profession.
- We recognize and make visible the contributions of our colleagues.
- We celebrate our successes.
Celebration
- We celebrate the lives of patients and their families.
- We acknowledge the importance of celebrating the successes of our patients, families and staff.
- Nurses are celebrated through Nursing Stars, Power of One and DAISY Awards.
Professional Relationships
Professional relationships are comprised of community outreach, teaching, partnerships and accountability that promote the patient and family. Nursing practice is supported through our professional relationships. We are committed to the following:
Community Outreach
- We develop partnerships to identify the health care needs within the community.
- We extend our practice in the community to meet the health care needs of patients/families and groups.
- We support the community through volunteerism.
Teaching
- We encourage an atmosphere that promotes the opportunity for something extraordinary to happen.
- We incorporate teaching into all aspects of care. • We openly share information with patients and families to receive the best outcomes.
- We actively contribute to the professional development of others.
Partnerships
- We believe that patients and families are our partners in care.
- We believe that the collegial partnerships are fundamental to safe, reliable care.
- We openly share information to achieve the best outcome.
Accountability
- We are accountable for the quality of patient care by maintaining competence.
- We practice according to our profession’s code of ethics, standards of practices and legal regulations.
- We hold ourselves and others accountable for actions and outcomes in the care of our patients, their families and each other.
- We are accountable for the delegation of nursing care activities to nurses and other health care workers.
Methodist North Hospital nurses value evidence-based practice (EBP). Over the past few years, a number of clinical nurses and leaders attended the 5-day Ohio State EBP Immersion. This course taught nurses a step-by-step process and effective strategies for implementing EBP. Nursing care is provided using the best evidence and patient and family-centered care principles. These principles require a commitment to a spirit of inquiry and nursing research.
The Department of Nursing at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has partnered with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Research Institute and local universities to collaborate and promote a culture of inquiry in clinical care. MLH aims to generate nursing research, advance nursing science, and advance nursing practice within the organization.
Current and completed projects include examining the effects of music on patients undergoing invasive cardiac procedures, factors associated with patients leaving the Emergency Department before care was completed, variables related to retention of new graduate nurses in the Nurse Residency Program, examining prevalence and risk factors of bullying in the nursing workforce, and studying the effects that the recent criminal conviction of a clinical nurse for a fatal medication error has on nurses’ willingness to voluntarily report medication errors.
Clinical nurses have presented their research across multiple platforms, including the Tennessee Nurses Association Annual Conference.
The COVID-19 pandemic may have required us to change some of our methods for reaching out to the community, but it hasn’t stopped our commitment to improve the lives of others. Living our value of innovation, MLH-North nurses remain committed to the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve.
A few examples of nurse’s involvement and contributions are mentioned below:
Jacobs Well — a local ministry that is known for serving the community outside of confines of church walls. Methodist North nursing and ancillary teams partner with Jacobs Well to help the homeless in our community. Every month we provide over 100 meals, and needed items such as socks, gloves, sunscreen, bug spray, blankets and relevant health information. In an attempt to meet them where they are, our nurses went out into the homeless community to provide fellowship and teaching on topics which have included: dehydration, sun protection, nutrition, dental care, hypothermia and more. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, they are currently collecting money and needed items them for donation to the Jacobs Well ministry. We hope to get back out in the community soon.
Diabetic Education classes — Going Virtual! Originally, a group of 13 nurses partnered with a local quality group so they could provide diabetic education classes for the community. The 1-2 hours classes meet once a week for 6 weeks and are intended for the diabetic, pre-diabetic, or family members of those affected by diabetes. Currently a virtual format is being developed so that classes can carry on. Whether online or in person, these classes provide a solid foundation about diabetes along with education on nutrition, exercise, medication management and preventing complications. Methodist North nurses who volunteer to teach this class are making make a difference by improving the lives of the diabetic population in our community.
Health Screenings — Reaching out to support Supporting wellness in our community is a top priority for Methodist North nurses. Nurses regularly volunteer to host health screenings at local functions such as the Raleigh Block Party for Peace and the Bartlett Expo. BMI, Cholesterol, Blood Glucose and Blood pressure are free screenings offered on an ongoing basis at these events. Our nurses proudly provide these services at multiple churches in the surrounding neighborhoods and across the city.
2023 Nursing Stars
Jessica Starns
BSN, RN - Stepdown
Emily Long
BSN, RN - Intensive Care Unit
Patricia Justice
BSN, RN - Emergency Department
Gilma CataCutan
BSN, RN - 5 North
Nurse of the Year
Previous Nursing Stars
Sindy Casinghino, RN – Emergency Department
Sam Proffitt, BSN, RN, RN-BC – 5 North
Melissa Young, BSN, RN, CEN - Emergency Department
April Cacy, BSN, RN, RN-BC – 5 North - Nurse of the Year
Patricia Arnold, BSN, RN – Behavioral Health
Kaitlyn Durham, BSN, RN, CCRN – Intensive Care Unit
Metis Koulgianes, BSN, RN – Stepdown
Lori Stone, MSN, RN, RN-BC – 5 North - Nurse of the Year
Jessica Starnes, BSN, RN – Stepdown Unit
Mandy Holder, BSN, RN – Intensive Care Unit
Jill Klobe, BSN, RN, CEN – Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Stacy Fleming, RN – Stepdown Unit - Nurse of the Year
2023 Daisy Award Winners
January – Jeanette McCommon 4N
February - Dawn Woody 3N
April - Stephanie Tate 5N
May - Ashley Horton 4N
June - Christina Vanblankenstein ED
July - Kayla Miller, BSN, RN – 4 North
Previous Daisy Award Winners
February - Jason Piyavunno, MSN, RN – Intensive Care Unit
March - Lizzy Maliekal, BSN, RN – 4 North
April - Kristen Gardiner, BSN, RN – 3 North
May - Karla Craig, BSN, RN – 3 North
June - Shelley McElveen, BSN, RN - PACU
July - Misty Lovejoy, BSN, RN, RN-BC – 4 North
August - Metis Koulogianes, BSN, RN - Stepdown
September - Madison Hoard, BSN, RN – Emergency Department
October - Damon Thomas, RN - Stepdown
November - Jutta Siebert, BSN, RN - Stepdown
December - Kayla Young, BSN, RN - Stepdown
January – Peggy Hoffman, RN – 5 North
February – Jasmine Knight, BSN, RN, CMSRN – 4 North
March – Becky Scott, RN – Same Day Surgery
April - Kerri Moore, BSN, RN – Stepdown
May - Whitney Southall, RN – Emergency Department
June – Njeri Cooper, BSN, RN, CCM – Case Management
July – Kurtil Gray Thompson, BSN, RN, CCM – Case Management
August – Ashlyn McFatridge, BSN, RN – Stepdown
September – Cindy Eason, RN - Stepdown
December – Kathleen Marissee Alfaro, BSN, RN – CV Intensive Care Unit