Episode 132: Safer Together | The Nurse Well-Being Imperative - Johnson Johnson and the American Nurses Association | Podcast - Nhac.vn

Protecting nurses and healthcare workers physically and mentally is not just one component of the Safer Together National Action Plan; it may be the one that holds all the others together.  

In this third episode of our Safer Together series, Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, Vice President of Safety at IHI, President of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and co-chair of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety talks with Christine Pabico, Senior Director of the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Pathway to Excellence and Well-Being Excellence Programs.  Patricia and Christine trace the development of ANCC's Well-Being Excellence Credential, the first of its kind to encompass the entire workforce across every type of care setting. We also hear from two of its pilot organizations, Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and BayCare Health System in Tampa Bay, to hear how they became certified through the ANCC Wellbeing Certification and what that means for their organizations.  

Patricia McGaffigan, MS, RN, CPPS  ·  Senior Advisor for Safety, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety; Co-chair, National Steering Committee for Patient Safety 

Christine Pabico, PhD, RN, NE-BC, FAAN  ·  Senior Director, Pathway to Excellence and Well-Being Excellence, American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 

Nikki Daily  ·  Chief Team Resources Officer, BayCare Health System  

Rocky Hauch, DNP, RN, PCCN  ·  Advanced Professional Development Practitioner and Nurse Well-Being Lead, BayCare Health System 

Trish Shucoski, DNP, MSN, RN, NEA-BC  ·  Chief Nurse Executive, BayCare Health System 

Simmy King, DNP, MS, MBA, NI-BC, NE-BC, CHSE, FAAN  ·  Chief Nursing Informatics and Education Officer; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, The George Washington University School of Medicine 

Safer Together Series

In the first episode of our Safer Together Series, Donald Berwick, MD, co-founder and President Emeritus of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, Vice President of Safety at IHI, President of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and co-chair of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety, issued a call to action: safety is not a matter of individual effort; it is a total system responsibility, built on four interlocking pillars, one of which is workforce safety and well-being.  

In the second episode, Kelly Randall, PhD, Vice President for Patient Safety and Regulatory Services at Ascension, where she leads the health system's comprehensive patient safety program, high reliability strategy, and system-wide deployment of the Safer Together National Action Plan, showed us what it looks like to answer that call, shifting culture across nearly 100 hospitals, one huddle, one conversation, one near-miss at a time.