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Our Employees' Outstanding Accomplishments
One of the wonderful things about working at Suburban Hospital is that you are surrounded by individuals who are leaders in their respective fields. Here are just a few highlights of the accolades, publications, and awards our team has recently received.
Accolades
The U.S. Dept of Health (featured on ABC World News Report , June 22, 2007) reported that Suburban Hospital ranked below the national average for heart attack patient mortality rate.
Nursing Spectrum recently recognized several Suburban Hospital nurses as regional finalists for the 2007 Nursing Excellence Awards. Our nurses were recognized in the categories of Management, Advancing and Leading the Profession and Teaching.
Management
LeighAnn Sidone, RN, BSN, OCN, Director of Oncology and Adult Surgery, was named a finalist for, among other things, reducing the turnover rate from 25% to 5% in Adult Surgery and maintaining a turnover rate of just 8% in Oncology for the last 5 years. Under LeighAnn’s leadership, the patient satisfaction rating is 99% for the Oncology unit.
Advancing and Leading the Profession
Yvonne D’Arcy, RN, MS,CRNP,CNS, Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, was recognized as a finalist for developing the pain protocol found on all charts. Y’vonne writes and maintains policies and procedures related to pain and palliative care. She represents nursing on the hospital’s Institutional Review Board and served on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Development Committee of the American Pain Society. Y’vonne has spoken at more than a dozen conferences in the last year.
Teaching
Vicki Kark, RN, MSN, CCRN, Cardiac Clinical Specialist, was named a finalist for helping to open a new open-heart surgical unit. Vicki contributed to policy formation, assisting in selecting equipment, and developing order sets and pathways as well as an education plan. She also developed the education plan for the first cardiac intervention patient.
Publications
The May 2007 issue of Nursing Management featured an article entitled “Screening for Pain: Computerized Pain Assessment is an Arm’s Length Away,” by Debbie Johann, Director of Nursing Informatics, Barbara Shapourian, Nursing Informatics Analyst, and Yvonne D’Arcy, Pain Management and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner.
In the April 2007 issue of Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, Beverly Pierce, CHTP, Director of Integrative Medicine, authored “The Use of Biofield Therapies in Cancer Care.” Beverly also co-authored “Effectiveness of Cancer Guides: A Study of an Integrative Cancer Care Training Program for Health Professionals” in the March 2007 issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies.
Awards
Advance for Nurses recently awarded the Adult Surgery unit under the leadership of LeighAnn Sidone, RN, BSN, OCN, as “Best in Adaptability.”