Nurse Navigators
The Nurse Navigators Fellowship is a 12-month program to help support front line nurses in removing errors and using evidence-based knowledge to redesign and improve care delivery. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fellowship hypothesis guided nurses to use data and measurement to improve patient outcomes will lead to more nursing autonomy and increased nurse satisfaction and nurse retention. During the Fellowship, nurses saw the effect on patient outcomes from usage of evidence- and quality-based approaches for care redesign.
A key component of Fellowship instruction is the principles of the Perfecting Patient Care Systemsm (PPC); a new paradigm for perfecting systems associated with healthcare delivery which holds that care and service processes are most effectively improved through “real-time” interventions that are designed, implemented, measured, and refined by frontline workers who are most familiar with patient and organizational needs. PPC increases the frontline nurses ability to remove obstacles to high quality care and function as change agents in healthcare quality and safety.
Participants tackled projects that reduced patient falls, lowered staff turnover and reduced hospital-acquired infections, among other accomplishments, including financial savings at a number of the host institutions.
Alumni
Kimberle A. Barker, RN, BSN |
Lynda Nester, RN, BSN |
Laura Mainarich, RN, BSN, CPN |
Jacqueline M. O'Brien, RN, MSN |
Kathleen McPherson, RN, BSN |
Christopher Saunders, RN, BSN |
Albert H. Minjock, RN, MSN, CCRN, FCCM |
Maureen Saxon-Gioia, RN, BSN, CNRN |
Deneen Sobota, RN |
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