Healthcare is transforming and nurses’ skills are routinely being called upon to solve concerns in our country. Nurses are taking the lead in patient navigation throughout our national and local ministries.

 

The Value Based Purchasing Medicare Program, which rewards value based care rather than volume based, allows nurses to show how their clinical expertise and passion around caring impacts the lives of patients and improves the financial performance of a hospital. We will continue to experience reimbursement challenges that will call upon us to be as efficient in our care delivery as we are effective.

 

As Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale journeys towards our fourth Magnet designation, we are blessed to have empowered nurses who are committed to excellence and evidence-based care. As a part of the Trinity Health system, we are allowed many opportunities to collaborate on best practices and improved outcomes.

 

Healthcare organizations will continue to focus on how to balance safe, effective care while meeting the growing demands of our communities. Holy Cross will be revolutionizing care at the bedside and beyond through super clinical integrated networks, medical homes and transition care nurse navigators. Holy Cross nurses are involved in every facet of this transformation.

 

The current fragmentation of our healthcare system results in duplication of services and confusion for patients and their families. Nurses need to keep the patient and family at the center of everything we do.

 

Improving relationships with our patients improves the overall experience of care for all of us. Taking the moment to create a sacred encounter is what changes lives. The therapeutic relationships we build with our patients and families are what they will remember. The success of healthcare transformation lays in us, the nurses.