IFMC ADVANCE Council
December 2024
IFMC ADVANCE Council
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church
,
VA
United States
Eileen Kuykendall, BSN, RN, NIC, ELBW Joyce Conner, BSN, RN, NIC, ELBW Miroslava Lane, BSN, RN, CAPA Rebecca Alabi, BSN, RN, CMSRN Nicole Webb, BSN, RN, CNOR Janet Woods, MSN, RN, NIC, LRN, ELBW Patricia Green, BSN, RN, CCRN, CV-BC, MEDSURG-BC, PMT-BC, PCCN, RN-BC, CMSRN Sarah Lemaster, BSN, RN, CCRN, CPEN Amy Brown, BSN, RN, GERO-BC Theresa Magnotti, BSN, RN, PCCN Katie Healy, BSN, RN, CPN, CPHON Emily Smith, BSN, RN, RNC-MNN Anna Ku, BSN, RN, PMH-BC Anna Herbst, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
The Inova Nursing Clinical Ladder Promotion Program, ADVANCE, empowers direct care nursing councils to support, evaluate, and promote eligible direct care nurse peers in the ADVANCE ladder promotion program. As the leader sponsor in conjunction with Dina Dent, Chief Nursing Officer, we would like to nominate the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus ADVANCE Council for the DAISY Team Award for their extraordinary commitment to the well-being and recognition of their nursing peers in the ADVANCE promotion program.
This team is led by two registered nurses, Chair Eileen Kuykendall and Cochair Joyce Conner. Its 13 nurse members serve nearly 3000 contemporaries across the campus. They have spent countless hours guiding nurse applicants to submit successful applications. They meet as a team monthly to evaluate the applications and promote nurses in partnership with Human Resources. They do this in a spirit of authenticity, playfulness, and rigor.
More than two years ago, the system identified the need to continue to evolve the 30-year-old program to meet the needs of a changing nursing demographic. Members of this team participated in a system-level team that redesigned the program by aligning it with the four components of the Magnet model: Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Exemplary Professional Practice, and New Knowledge and Innovation. They converted to a point scoring system, added more than 30 additional activities, and two additional promotion levels. These additional levels increased the ability of nurses not yet eligible for certification to participate and also rewarded more tenured, actively involved nurses. The system also converted from a paper application binder to a digital platform, Staff Garden.
Needless to say, this created a tremendous learning curve for not only the ADVANCE team members but for all three thousand nurses. It is impossible to count the additional hours of guidance and emotional support this relatively tiny, powerhouse team provided for their leaders and colleagues. They remain truly aligned with our organizational values, particularly in Excellence and One Team! And they have served the organization well. Since the new program began in August 2023, this team has increased direct care nursing promotions by six hundred percent! In fact, year to date, they have already promoted 764 nurses new to the ladder. They are an amazing group of strong nurses who collaborate with all departments and work so well together as a team. It is an honor and privilege to serve them.
This team is led by two registered nurses, Chair Eileen Kuykendall and Cochair Joyce Conner. Its 13 nurse members serve nearly 3000 contemporaries across the campus. They have spent countless hours guiding nurse applicants to submit successful applications. They meet as a team monthly to evaluate the applications and promote nurses in partnership with Human Resources. They do this in a spirit of authenticity, playfulness, and rigor.
More than two years ago, the system identified the need to continue to evolve the 30-year-old program to meet the needs of a changing nursing demographic. Members of this team participated in a system-level team that redesigned the program by aligning it with the four components of the Magnet model: Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Exemplary Professional Practice, and New Knowledge and Innovation. They converted to a point scoring system, added more than 30 additional activities, and two additional promotion levels. These additional levels increased the ability of nurses not yet eligible for certification to participate and also rewarded more tenured, actively involved nurses. The system also converted from a paper application binder to a digital platform, Staff Garden.
Needless to say, this created a tremendous learning curve for not only the ADVANCE team members but for all three thousand nurses. It is impossible to count the additional hours of guidance and emotional support this relatively tiny, powerhouse team provided for their leaders and colleagues. They remain truly aligned with our organizational values, particularly in Excellence and One Team! And they have served the organization well. Since the new program began in August 2023, this team has increased direct care nursing promotions by six hundred percent! In fact, year to date, they have already promoted 764 nurses new to the ladder. They are an amazing group of strong nurses who collaborate with all departments and work so well together as a team. It is an honor and privilege to serve them.