Organizational Overview
Transformational Leadership
Structural Empowerment
Exemplary Professional Practice
New Knowledge, Innovation, & Improvement
100

We heal, we teach, we innovate.

What is the TGH Mission?
100

Stimulates and inspires others to achieve extraordinary outcomes, focuses on professional growth of the team, and aligns team members goals and objectives.

What is transformational leadership?


100

Retention and Recruitment, patient experience, quality and GRN are all examples of this on the ACE unit.

What is shared governance committees?

100

By implementing this checklist, the ACE unit has gone over 1,000 days without a CAUTI or CLABSI and over 900 days without a Pressure injury.

What is the CN checklist?

100
This is done by going into a room and completing all tasks, often with multiple disciplines to improve quiet at night and allow more sleep.

What is clustering care?

200

This requires a self, peer and management feedback.

What is an annual evaluation?

200

Jeanean, Eileen, Narisa, Caitlin and Brooke completed this training to assist with decreasing pressure injuries for our patients. 

What is SWAT or WTA program?

200

This initiative came from a multidisciplinary team who completed an EBP literature review and implemented documentation and interventions on the ACE unit.  This documentation was only completed in the ICU prior to 2015.

Bonus- What is the average resolution time for this metric on the ACE unit?

What is the delirium initiative?

What is 1.3 days?

200

This is called to help de-escalate a patient who is becoming agitated. 

What is a Code Bert?

200

A project was started after a student completed a time study and noted that nurses are interrupted by multiple calls from procedure areas during med pass.  This committee was created with IT, nursing and procedural team members, the procedural report was created in EPIC and Voalte was rolled out to procedure areas.

What is the call reduction subcommittee?
300

A confidential forum to ask the CEO questions.

What is "Ask John"?

300

Advocated to reduce the number of patients watched daily on this by doing a time study.

What is the Video Monitor?

300

This scholarship was started in 2017 and nurses raised $1500, resulting in four scholarships to ACE unit PCT's and CMT's.

What is the Blessed by the Best Becky Roulhac scholarship?

300

This has been proven to improve nursing communication with a patient when it is done with the patient all of the time.  

What is Bedside Report?

300

This is an innovative approach to trial a new process without adding more team members to reduce the stress on nurses by using a resource to work on admits/discharges and tasks.

What is the Admit/Discharge nurse?

400

Team members complete this to report unprofessional practice by advanced practice providers and MD's.

What is a 'Physician complaint' incident report?

400

This storm left a Team to manage the patients on the unit until the winds passed.  ACE unit prepared for the storm by creating templates of paper charting and MAR's, communicating the plan for before, during and after the storm.

What is hurricane Irma?

400

Ayumi, Kiadiann and Courtney have all received this prestigious award.

What is the Divisional Nurse of the year award?

400

Back in motion was completed as part of the ACE team meetings in 2017 to help reduce this.

What are back injuries?

400

This year, the team was placed in this room and had to work through scenarios during a CAP's session to save the patients life.

What is the Code Blue Escape room?

500

The following at examples of this:

-Tuition payment

-Skill enhancement

-Pay for mandatory training

-Clinical ladders

-BSN plan

-Payment to travel to conferences to present

What is professional development?

500

The process where a leadership member meets with the  employee and discusses life outside of work, establishes goals, and goes over strengths and areas of opportunity for the individual or the unit.

What is mentorship program?

500

TGH supports this by giving discounts to CE direct, bringing review classes to TGH, or supporting participation in reviews at other facilities.  Reimbursement is given upon passing.

What is National Certifications such as, Geriatric, PCCN, CVRN...?

500

The following committees have an ACE unit rep:

AFIB, HF, NPC, TGH quality, Safety, WTA, Quiet at Night, Magnet, NICHE, Clutter committee.

This is an example of nurses involvement in _______  __________-____________ through committee participation.

What is organizational decision-making?

500
In 2018, the ACE unit held the 10th year of this conference in Tampa.

What is the NICHE conference?