One Friday morning 6 AM E Mail from CSJH to Ryan Mullins and the Social Services team at CRMH put into motion an amazing response! By 8 AM the CRMH team had assigned Carly Villarreal (an expert and a star!) to help us with a complicated patient care issue @ Stonewall. By 9 AM she had reviewed the chart and had the beginnings of a plan. We all met in a conference call at 9:15. Throughout the day Carly and many other folks at CRMH assisted us in the development of a plan for this patients safe disposition.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Clark, Dr. Cathy Jennings and Dr. Kim Carter on your publication in the January 2020 edition of the Journal of Nursing Administration.  Vol 50, No 1.  Pages 16-21. 

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Being a Research Mentor: A Qualitative Study

Rebecca Culver Clark PhD, RN,Cathy D. Jennings DNP, RN, ACNS-BC,Kimberly F. Carter PhD, RN, NEA-BC

The AJN/Nurse Faculty Scholars Mentored Writing Awards program is an annual program to promote mentorship and develop scholarly writing skills among nurses. It was conceived by the 2012–2015 cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, in honor of the mentorship they received.

Amanda Terry, Pharm.D,  Marianna Gomez De La Espriella, M.D,  and Drema Gautier, Social Worker know the struggle that our patients have to afford expensive, life saving medication at discharge!

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!  Carilion Clinic Hospice New River Valley has just been awarded Level V of the We Honor Veterans program – the ONLY hospice in Virginia to receive this designation thus far. Please see the message below from The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

We would like to recognize Dining & Nutrition Services Support Associate, Sierra Echevarria for her entry in the 3rd Annual Mountain View Cafe Gingerbread House contest.  Sierra's gingerbread barn took first place in a vote this week with our Mountain View Cafe patrons.  Congratulations Sierra and great work!

Employees from Carilion Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Trauma Department, 6 West nursing, Cardiology Research Department and the Marketing Department all joined forces to collect items for the animals at the Regional Center for Animal Control and Protection (county pound).  We were able to "stuff" over 180 stocking along with A LOT of extra goodies!  Thank you to everyone for their hard work and commitment to caring for our local animals. 

As we reflect upon Carilion Clinic's values, the collaboration between Courtney Espostio and Shea Jesse from Health Analytics along Heather Mcglothlin from finance is notable.   Courtney, Heather, and Shea partnered together to redesign and implement the new provider dashboards.   The new dashboards were implemented in October with very positive feedback from providers.   In addition, the dashboards are now delivered more timely and efficiently.     Job well done!

I chose Collaberation as the leading Carilion value, but I want to add compassion and commitment as well for the phenomenal team I worked with today on 9 Mountain PCU at CRMH. Theresa Kern has put together an outstanding team on this unit! Nursing aid, Brooklyn, was such a trooper as the only aid on the floor today-but not once did I hear her complain. And why would she?-when the exemplory RNs on this unit rose to the occasion, helping out with even the most mundnane of tasks, like changing out telemetry box batteries or grabbing a drink for a thirsty patient.

Congratulations to Executive Chef Sam Lazzaro and his special assistant Danesha Anderson Price for presenting another fantastic, delicious and fun filled session of Cooking with Carilion, Tuesday, December 10th at Feeding America Roanoke. This was the final class for 2019 and Chef Sam really brought it with Roast Prime Rib of Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Brussels.