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Best Nursing Team 2010

Does your team adapt? Thrive? Have passion? Let us help you shout it from the rooftops!

Last updated on: December 7, 2009 | Posted on: December 2, 2009

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Enter to be recognized as ADVANCE's 2010 Best Nursing Team!

WHAT YOU WIN

The Best Nursing Team will:

Be photographed for an ADVANCE for Nurses cover and recognized in a feature story
Be honored online during National Nurses Week
Enjoy a customized team celebration
Receive a commemorative plaque
Receive additional surprise gifts

ELIGIBILITY

Any group of nurses working together as a team: units, committees, chapters, etc.
The majority of the team members must be RNs.

ENTRIES & JUDGING

Judges will evaluate an essay that gives evidence your team is expert in ONE of the following areas:

Initiative
Adaptability
Expertise
Outreach

DEADLINE: Entries due Jan. 11, 2010.

Winners will be notified in February 2010. A panel of your peers will decide which teams get the honor of 2010 Best Nursing Team.

Need more details? Want to read an excerpt from a 2009 winning entry? Check out our FAQ. Want to find out which teams won in 2009? Check out the complete list.

To get started, select your region. (Tip: Type out your answers, spell-check them, and then copy and paste into the online form.)

New England
New York & Northern New Jersey
Eastern PA, Southern NJ & DE
MD, DC & VA
Southeastern States (NC, SC, GA, AL, TN, MS)
Florida
Greater Chicago & Areas of WI & IN
Southern Midwestern States (TX, LA, AR, & OK)
California & Nevada
All other regions

Grand View Hospital’s DEM is all about patient care. The Nurses actively embrace any process that helps them improve the services they can provide. A big change was incorporating an ER Case Manager into the team. The nurses immediately began identifying patients with complicated discharge issues and alerting the ER Case Manager of families that needed additional support. The staff in the ER at Grand View are never too busy to recognize patients often have a multitude of needs that need to be addressed to maximize their recovery. Coordinating this change between the hospital’s Case Management Department and the Department of Emergency Medicine is a credit to both managers, Wendy Raifsnider and Jackie Howenstein. A successful integration would not have been possible without the enthusiasm of the ER staff – again, care in Grand View’s ER is all about the patient!

Loretta Sandy, DEM Case Manager, Grand View Hospital	December 03, 2009
Sellersville, PA

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