Council | Mission | Purpose | Meeting Schedule | Contact Person(s) |
| The mission of this council is to highlight and address government, regulatory and legislative issues that will impact nursing at Hallmark Health and mobilizes nurses to become active in government and legislative affairs. | The purpose is: (1.) to monitor, initiate and review legislative and regulatory activities as they apply to Hallmark Health System; (2.) to educate the healthcare team and the community we serve regarding the impact of healthcare legislation; and (3.) to implement activities that enhances the voice of nursing while promoting a healthy community. | First & Third Tuesday every month from 1-2:30pm | Dawn Fusi & Carol Downes |
| The mission of this council is to develop educational activities that improve patient outcomes and patient safety and foster the professional development of the staff. | The purpose is: (1.) to encourage and promote educational initiatives that will improve patient outcomes and foster the safe passage of our patients by providing basic or advanced education and (2.) to provide opportunities for professional development by means of journal clubs and other educational activities identified as areas of interest for our staff. | Anticipating all day meetings in the fall…to be determined . | Please contact either Beth or Marie. Beth Campbell (306-6796)/Marie McCarthy (306-6601) |
| The mission of this council is to develop quality and safety initiatives that will improve patient outcomes and patient safety and inspire nurses to sustain an excellent culture of quality and safety at Hallmark Health. | The purpose is: (1.) to identify opportunities to improve organizational nursing performance related to nurse sensitive indicators in order to implement and manage all aspects of the Nursing Performance Improvement Plan and other quality initiatives. This monitoring and evaluation of nursing care will assist in improving the quality of care delivered to our community; (2.) to highlight best nursing practices annually in order to provide opportunities to enhance patient safety by undertaking failure mode effect analyses (FMEA) to ensure a safer environment for our patients. | All day meetings once a month as follows:
July 11th, 2006
LMH-SON Classroom D
August 8th
MWH-Perkins
Sept. 12th
LMH-SON Classroom D
Oct. 10th
MWH-Perkins Hall
Nov. 14th
LMH-SON-Classroom D
Dec. 12th
MWH-Perkins Hall | Brian Pinelle (6783) |
| The mission of this council is to focus on the management of resources for nursing services, the availability of these resources and the development of innovative staffing programs to ensure safe and competent nursing personnel. | The purpose is: (1.) to oversee the development of system wide float that will increase staffing flexibility and decrease premium labor costs. (2.) to review payment policies to ensure standardization and equity. And (3.) to review and analyze nursing services staffing hours and skill mix in comparison to the National database for Nursing Quality Indicators and make recommendations for achieving benchmark means | Currently meeting on the second Thursday of each month from 9:00 am to 10:30 am at alternating campus sites | Laurie McCadden (6387) |
| The mission of this council is to oversee the development and implementation of computerized nursing documentation to ensure accurate and timely nursing documentation according to regulatory agencies. | The purpose of this council is: (1.) to facilitate the cultural changes brought about by the technological advances associated with the implementation of the electronic health record; (2.) to assist nurses to see the advantages of integrating informatics into their daily practice to strengthen decision making at the point of care; (3.) to improve interdisciplinary communication; (4.) to identify workflow process changes; (5.) to enhance patient safety; (6.) to foster collaboration between health care providers; (7.) to impact patient health outcomes; (8.) to position ourselves to maximize future projects designed to improve patient care and workload efficiency; (9.) to develop a set of nursing informatics competencies for staff and (10.) to serve in consultative role for system information services projects (ex. Computerized Physician Order Entry) and their impact on nursing workflow and processes. | Currently meeting every Tuesday from 8-4pm.
Once project is completed would anticipate meeting monthly. | Kathy Tayler, RN |
| The mission of this council is to oversee the development, revisions and deletions of nursing policies, procedures, standards and guidelines for Hallmark Health Nursing Services. | The purpose of this council is: (1.) to ensure that all current policies, procedures, standards and guidelines are consistent with the philosophy of the Nursing Department, the Nurse Practice Act, Nursing Care and Practice standards, JCAHO standards and the standards of various professional and specialty organizations and regulatory agencies; (2.) establish a mechanism to ensure timely communication of new/and or revised policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to staff; and (3.) to incorporate quality improvement findings and recommendations into appropriate policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to enhance the delivery of high quality patient care. | 4th Tues. each month except July and Aug.
Nov. Dec. only one meeting on Tues. Dec. 5 | Diane Hanley, RN |