Faith Robertson;

I appreciate your help with learning my new position here at cardiology! Your knowledge and kindness makes it easy for me to learn and do my job.

Congratulations and thank you to Regan Bess, RN of CRBH for your Great Catch involving preventing a medication mixing/dilution error from reaching the patient prior to administering an IV Medication!  Regan, thank you for this Great Catch, thank you for placing the SafeWatch report, and thank you for all that you do for our patients. 

April shared the following with me.

"Tammy and Kaitlyn here at NRFP have been great with teaching me new things. I have already graduated to now closing by myself. I enjoy my job and working here. Everyone is so nice and helpful!"

Keep up the great work, April Hicks! You're making great progress in learning your new role!

Recently, there was a patient who was very upset. When investigated, the patient was worried about his dog. Amber Janney, Operations Manager on 8SICU, was able to get the patient to draw the location he last left his dog. Amber reached out to Angels of Assisi to help coordinate finding the patients dog. After multiple calls, the dog was found and placed in Angels of Assisi care until the patient was discharged. The patient was then reunited with his dog - who was more excited to see his owner as much as the patient was to see his dog.

When Laura Kate Jennings-Brink isn't preventing infections, you might find her running EMS calls for Read Mountain. Recently, Laura Kate completed Fire Academy and now can fight fires, run EMS, and still prevent infections here at Carilion. We love your commitment to patients both in the hospital and in the community!

Angie Carter was recognized By the Town Of Clifton Forge for her Civic duties throughout the community. Angie takes it upon herself to walk the neighborhoods and the streets of Clifton Forge picking up trash as well as helping out within the community anyway she can. Congratulations Angie on a job well done.

Author Nora Roberts once said “Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”  If you ask Linda Perdue, she likely would agree.

Linda is the Volunteer Pet Pals Coordinator, and if you’re lucky enough to be visited by one of our many Pet Pals teams, you’ve likely met Linda.

On February 8th, The Nursing Center of Excellence awarded the Outstanding Preceptor Award to Ann Ikunyua, RN on 8SICU.  Leaders from the Nursing Center of Excellence presented her with the award alongside her team members and unit leaders.  Adejoke (Jay) Moronkola, RN who submitted the nomination said that Ann "is a great nurse that has freely shared her wealth of knowledge with me. She is knowledgeable and her eagerness to learn more is exceptional.

On February 8th, The Nursing Center of Excellence awarded the Outstanding Preceptor Award to Amanda Sanders, RN on 8SICU.  Leaders from the Nursing Center of Excellence presented her with the award alongside her team members and unit leaders. Arman Darbani, RN - Transition to Practice Facilitator, who submitted the nomination said that Amanda "recently joined the Carilion team and I want to say that we are so lucky she decided to do so.

CRBH joined the system in the electronic hand hygiene monitoring program in October of 2022.  This has been a major change in process and CRBH would like to recognize the top 10 hand hygiene observers for the month of January.

Chris Hill, Mandy Lineberry, Dan Cassilly, Kayla Demma, Allison McClung, Kimberly Swink, Debbie Wheeler, Michelle Secrist, Ieva Sandidge and Janeen Stangl-Macfarlane.

Thank you for embracing the new process and for being committed to improvement and patient safety!