Nursing Excellence
A PART OF NURSING PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE
Nursing Excellence at Stanford Health Care (SHC) is guided by our mission To Care, To Educate, To Discover. Nursing Excellence is driven by nursing’s vision, values, strategic imperatives and goals.
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DAISY Foundation Award
TO CARE is a central theme in the SHC nursing philosophy and the Professional Practice Model. The theoretical framework for our nursing philosophy is inspired by the work of Jean Watson, Nursing Theorist, who believes that nursing integrates caring with science. Stanford Health Care’s nursing philosophy is captured in the statement “Nursing Excellence Requires a Caring HEART.” Caring serves as the foundation of every interaction we have.
H ONESTY ensures truthful open exchange at all times.
E XCELLENCE and EDUCATION result in continuous discovery.
A DVOCACY is essential for excellent patient outcomes.
R ESPECT for individual differences and diversity guides our behavior.
T EAMWORK results in collaboration and cooperation across the continuum.
TO EDUCATE is an integral part of an academic medical center’s mission, and a cornerstone of our nursing practice at SHC. Nurses at SHC are dedicated to teaching and learning. This priority is reflected in the extensive teaching and transfer of knowledge to patients and families, peers, and clinical team members. It is evident in each individual nurse’s pursuit of his/her own growth and professional development. Avenues at Stanford to pursue these goals include the Center for Professional Education and Development. Individual achievement is recognized and celebrated through the Professional Nurse Development Program (PNDP).
TO DISCOVER is the third pillar of the SHC mission and is reflected in the nursing drive to discover new knowledge and implement innovation. At SHC, nursing research is guided by our Nurse Scientists and the Research Council. The Research Council is just one of the Shared Governance Councils, the structure by which we pursue Nursing Excellence. SHC nurses skillfully care for patients, contribute to excellent patient outcomes, and continually advance the professional practice of nursing. These outcomes are evident in our Quality projects.
“We ARE Magnet”!
We enthusiastically share our expertise and knowledge with our colleagues and with the local, state, national and international nursing communities. It is this constant striving for new knowledge and improved patient care that propels SHC nurses to maintain Magnet® designation as recognition of our continued journey to Nursing Excellence.
Shared Leadership Council
Stanford nurses believe that safety and quality of patient care is a direct outcome of teamwork, communication, collaboration, and promotion of a healthy work environment. Creating and maintaining a healthy work environment is important to ensure patient safety and to enhance staff satisfaction, recruitment, and retention. Nurses work in a multidisciplinary environment. We encourage nurses to speak up with a BOLD VOICE and work towards positive solutions when issues of patient safety, ethics, and work-related conflict occur.
We aim to sustain patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and nursing satisfaction toward achievement of nursing excellence. Shared Leadership Council abides by the Nursing Professional Practice Model in alignment with the Magnet Recognition Program. The Shared Leadership Council embodies the principles of employee partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership, as well as transformational leadership. We have adopted the O’Rourke Accountability Model O5 to better describe our journey toward increased accountability and excellence in practice.
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Nursing Communication
Nursing Excellence, partnered with the Chief Nursing Officer Dale Beatty, develop, design, and disseminate informational collateral and communications across the enterprise both internally and externally to relay nursing related activities and updates to the organization and public.
External Communication
Internal Communication
- SHC Connect Intranet
- Shared Leadership Council Newsletter
- Weekly CNO Newsletter
Social Media
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Recognition Boards
The leadership team at SHC and Chief Nursing Officer Dale Beatty, strive to be fully engaged, visible and accessible to all Stanford nurses. With this in mind, open streams of communication have been formed to foster change through shared leadership, open Town Halls, and professional discussions. With full transparency, every nurse at Stanford Health Care, from frontline clinical nurses to executive leaders, collaborate and work together to provide top-quality patient care.
CNO Connect
To ensure transparency to all staff and the public, CNO Dale Beatty utilizes various informational avenues to provide up-to-date information about Stanford Nursing activities and news to be disseminated. Staff from all disciplines are welcome to attend the monthly round table meetings that Dale hosts once during the day shift and the night shift. If any staff have questions that remain unanswered from the newsletter, social media, blog, or other dissemination, this is another avenue for communication with Dale. During the round tables, no topics are off limit, so all questions and concerns can be presented.
CNO Connect activities and face-to-face encounters with Stanford Nurses:
- Monthly Leadership Meetings
- Leadership Development Sessions
- Nursing Grand Rounds
- Standing Internal Meetings including: Daily Huddle, Bi Monthly Patient Care Manager Meetings, Monthly Patient Care Leadership Meetings)
- Huddles/Rounding
- CNO Town Hall Meetings
Certified Nurses Week
Certified Nurses Day™ is an annual day of recognition for and by healthcare leaders dedicated to nursing professionalism, excellence, recognition, and service. Every March 19, employers, certification boards, education facilities, and healthcare providers celebrate and publicly acknowledge nurses who earn and maintain the highest credentials in their specialty.
Stanford Health Care recognizes the Certified Nurses with a week-long celebration to join the world in honoring nurses who contribute to enhanced professionalism, excellence, recognition, and service, resulting in better patient outcomes.
As of 2020's Certified Nurses' week, Stanford Health Care has 1,598 certified nurses who make up 64% of our eligible nurses, surpassing the national standard of 40%. This is another manifestation of Stanford Health Care nurses' uncompromising commitment to exemplary professional practice.
National Nurses Week
National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. During National Nurses Week, Stanford Health Care recognizes all of SHC nurses who have significantly contributed to advancing the patient experience, as well as the profession of nursing. It is the nurses’ commitment to providing the highest level of quality care to our patients that makes a difference every day.
Annual Magnet Conference
Every year Stanford Health care join the largest gathering of nurses world-wide by attending the Magnet Conference.
Hear from our nurses who attended the Annual Magnet Conference:
Melissa Luces
Melissa Luces
BSN, RN, CCRN
Clinical Nurse
If you have not attended a Magnet Conference, we invite you to come join us in October 2020, along with more than 10,000 nurses, to educate, innovate, and celebrate!!!
Ming-Chun Ho
Ming-Chun (Jimmy) Ho
DNP, RN-BC, CNL
Clinical Nurse
If you have not attended a Magnet Conference, we invite you to come join us in October 2020, along with more than 10,000 nurses, to educate, innovate, and celebrate!!!
Jennifer Friedenbach
Jennifer Friedenbach
MSN, RN, OCN, CMSRN, CNL
Clinical Nurse
If you have not attended a Magnet Conference, we invite you to come join us in October 2020, along with more than 10,000 nurses, to educate, innovate, and celebrate!!!
Nurse Manager Succession Planning
Evidence throughout nursing literature clearly confirms that effective front-line nurse managers play the most crucial part in and are the highest predictors of nursing work engagement and retention, as well as clinical and operational excellence. We also know that healthcare is becoming increasingly more complex, which is driving the need for more sophisticated knowledge, skills, and abilities among nurse leaders.
Formal nurse manager succession planning programs have begun to emerge across the country at leading-edge organizations. These formal programs have been shown to increase nurse manager competency, boost leadership bench strength, increase internal promotions, positively impact recruitment and retention, as well as demonstrate a positive return on investment. These programs also help identify and develop new generations of nurse leaders throughout the organization, helping to ensure a robust pipeline of nurse leaders for the future.
Stanford University Biodesign Pairing & Leadership
Stanford Nursing has collaborated with the Stanford University Biodesign School to help students understand the healthcare problems and invent new technologies to address them. As innovations in healthcare advance, the clinical expertise, practicality, and functionality of new products and techniques are reviewed with Stanford nurses.
Stanford Youth Medical Science Program Pairing & Leadership
For more than 30 years, the Stanford Youth Medical Science Program (SMYSP) has held a five-week residential enrichment program focused on science and medicine that is open to low-income, underrepresented high school sophomores and juniors who live in Northern and Central California. Students are placed in hospital internships throughout Stanford Hospital. SMYSP students study not only the factual knowledge of health and medical science but also gain experience in the various aspects of health care delivery such as hands-on laboratory and departmental activities, shadowing experiences, surgical observation, and patient interaction.
Theses internships provide exposure to the various health and medical professions through hands-on activities, shadowing, as well as formal and informal discussions, and support these students to gain confidence in their ability to succeed in the science and medical professions.
Stanford nursing has welcomed international visitors (university faculty, nursing and health professionals, and executive leaders) to learn more, observe, and participate in the organization’s facilities, projects, education courses, councils, and committees. International visitors bring with them a rich cultural and professional perspectives, which support the understanding of the roles, barriers, and challenges of the global health professionals.
As a globally renowned institution, Stanford nursing aligns with the organizational goals to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning by fostering intercultural understanding, tolerance, mutual respect and an ethic of global citizenship and shared responsibility. We acknowledge the natural and cultural diversity of the world and recognize that all cultures and civilizations can contribute to, and are crucial enablers of, sustainable development.