EXEMPLARY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Clinical Nurse Leader Program Continues to Grow The clinical nurse leader (CNL) role continued to make a significant impact on coordinating care with patients, families and the multidisciplinary team at Texas Health hospitals. Twenty-seven Texas Health nurses were enrolled in the CNL program at Texas Christian University during 2012, with 13 graduating in May.
INTERNSHIP IMPACT Almost 400 nursing students and newly graduated nurses took advantage of internships at Texas Health in 2012.
IMPROVING COMPETENCY Texas Health Physicians Group developed and deployed a nurse educator-led annual competency evaluation of unlicensed assistive personnel in the physician office that increased blood pressure measurement competency from 37 to 90 percent.
VERSANT RN RESIDENCY™ PROGRAM The prestigious Versant RN Residency Program is an education and training system designed to successfully transition nurses from academia to the bedside. Texas Health had 120 Versant residents at five hospitals in 2012.
Versant residents at Texas Health Arlington Memorial in 2012 included, from left back, Patti Bentley, R.N., clinical educator and Versant program coordinator; Nancy Osteen, R.N., clinical educator; Versant nurse residents: Linda Elliott, Alyssa Sebesta, Nicole Garcia, and Jaelynn Owens, and Anne-Gret Friedrich-Cuntz, R.N., clinical educator; Front Row, Julie Holland, R.N., nursing administration manager; Versant nurse residents: Jade Taylor, Candice DeLuna and Roshan Jacob, and Lori Donovan, R.N., chief nursing officer.
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