Your voices matter! Take the RN Satisfaction Survey HERE. 

Help make AAMC the best nursing practice environment it can be! Celebrate our successes and highlight our opportunities for improvement by participating in the RN Satisfaction Survey, available 24/7 from Monday, May 7 until Sunday, May 27.   

RN’s who are eligible to take the survey received a letter at their home and an email with the RN code for participation. Eligible RNs are:    

• an RN or Advanced Practice RN (APRN)  
• Direct patient care providers (50% or greater direct patient care responsibilities, regardless of job title)
• Full-time, part-time, PRN, or per-diem RNs employed by hospital (not Agency, travelers, or contract RNs)
• Employed on a unit a minimum of 3 months by the first day of the survey.

Click here to access the RN Satisfaction Survey.

Climbing the Clinical Ladder – MythBusters

Have you been thinking about joining AAMC’s Clinical Ladder but wondering if you have all the facts straight? Are you familiar with the requirements? Do you know where to go for help? Let’s take a minute to set the record straight about some myths you might have heard about the Ladder, click here for more.    

What’s been happening with our Nursing Strategic Planning initiatives?

As we focus on care for our caregivers, C.O.P.E. was established in January and, since then, has intervened five times to support our staff after critical events. The Care Delivery Model initiative led us to partner with our community in ways we never dreamed – and we now have 43 Patient Family Advisors working on various projects and committees throughout the Health System. The Evidence-Based Practice Fair proved that research is happening all around us (and is really quite fun). The Senior Nurses Advisory Council began planning for new ways to support our senior nurses, like implementing shorter shifts.   

But that’s not all. Click here to read about all our nursing initiatives and our most recent accomplishments.   

Opportunities for Autonomy in Nursing at AAMC   

Barbara Studer-Baer, RN, saw last year’s Bedside Scientist Grant as an opportunity for autonomy. She was looking at ways to reduce ventilator days and length of stay in CCU – an evidence-based Early Mobility Protocol looked like the way to go. Collaboration with physicians, pharmacy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and patient care technicians led to to Awake, Aware, and Ambulating (AAA). So far, 17 of our vented patients have been ambulated. Read more here.