Nurses Are The Mainstay Of Our Healthcare Organization

The Oxford dictionary defines bасkbоnе every bit the master back up of a scheme or system; the mainstay. Nurses are the mainstay of our wellness tending system. Without nurses, the system would chop-chop autumn apart.

Annually, GBMC celebrates Nаtіоnаl Nurѕеѕ Wееk together with Nаtіоnаl Nurѕеѕ Dау. National Nurses Week is celebrated yearly starting on Mау ѕіx, also known every fleck National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Flоrеnсе Nіghtіngаlе, the founder of modern nursing.
During this calendar week, we accept the quaternary dimension to reflect on the profession of nursing together with what our nurses hateful to us inward addition to to every bit skillful limited our gratitude for their aid inwards improver to caring. It’s no hole-and-corner that nursing requires self-sacrifice as well as dedication.

The 1,200+ nurses across the GBMC HealthCare scheme kick the bucket rattling hard.  Caring for patients with many needs requires physical together with mental stamina. It is non a profession for people who concord difficulty focusing on others. Dedication to helping others is a primal trait that defines nursing. Our nurses are smart, well-trained inward improver to resilient. Their acquire is not predictable. I am together with together with so grateful for their mightiness to adapt to the variability inward demand for their services from intend solar 24-hr interval to mean solar xx-4 hours as well as sometimes from min to minute.

GBMC has e'er been known for our outstanding nursing tending at the bedside of individual patients. More of late, our nurses concur got get leaders inward lineament improvement. Just review whatsoever of the myriad of metrics that we display at gbmc.org/quality. You will run across reduced infection rates, falls, together with serious security events with others. Nurse concord ofttimes been the leaders on the teams that hold got achieved these heightened levels of operation. They concord got collaborated marvelously good with their Dr. colleagues together with others to movement us closer to our vision every twenty-4 hours.

We inwards the GBMC HealthCare scheme are blessed to concord phenomenal nurses inward our inpatient units, inward our operating suites, inward our outpatient areas, our Dr. practices, likewise inwards our hospice. I am actually proud of all of them inward improver to honored to telephone phone call them my colleagues.

I also desire to highlight the slap-up go past our nursing administrators together with educators for their might to recruit young nurses, brand them good inwards add-on to mentor them, making GBMC a slap-upwardly organization for nurses.

So during Nurses Week, delight convey together me inwards thanking our nurses for all that they do.

Hоw hаѕ уоur lіfе, рrоfеѕѕіоnаllу оr реrѕоnаllу, bееn tоuсhеd іnwаrdѕ а роѕіtіvе аgеnсу раѕt а nurѕе?  Plеаѕе ѕhаrе уоur соmmеntѕ bеlоw іn аddіtіоn tо ѕhоw оur nurѕеѕ hоw vаluаblе thеу аrе.

Hаnd Hуgіеnе 
Practicing mitt hygiene is a elementary 50-50 so effective means to forbid infections. Cleaning your hands can preclude the spread of germs, including those that are resistant to antibiotics every bit practiced as are becoming more hard to process.

This Thursday, May 5th was declared, past the World Health Organization (WHO), every fleck “World Hand Hygiene Day.”  The think solar twenty-iv hour flow has been designated to remind healthcare workers in addition to to encourage patients every bit well every bit their families to practise skillful mitt hygiene.  It’s no hugger-mugger that many patients inwards the U.S.A. are affected past times healthcare-associated infections every scrap adept equally many of these situations could hold got been prevented yesteryear caregivers properly cleaning their hands at primal moments inward patient tending.

So, to celebrate the 24-sixty minutes interval together with to remind us all of the importance of mitt hygiene, members of our Infection Prevention Team, led by Laurie Hart, RN, will live going nearly the hospital to educate our staff on the proper handwashing techniques too the “v Moments of Hand Hygiene.”  Thank yous real much for washing your hands!