Congratulations to the 2020 Quality Quest Awards recipients!
Here are your 2020 Patient Safety Hero Award recipients! Last month Horizon kicked off its celebration of Canadian Patient Safety Week by presenting the 2020 Patient Safety Hero Awards at a virtual ceremony.
on the Standardization of Systemic Cancer Therapy Delivery at Horizon.
Horizon’s annual Quality Quest Awards recognize Horizon teams for their quality improvement work and promotes quality improvement initiatives across Horizon. On this seven-year anniversary of the award, seven nominations were put forth and reviewed by the Quality Quest Awards Review Committee. The overall winner and two runners-up were celebrated by colleagues and Horizon’s Executive Leadership Team at a virtual award ceremony in October.
“The Quality Quest Awards showcase the amazing work being done throughout our organization and highlight how we continually strive for excellence,” said Margaret Melanson, Horizon’s Vice President Patient Centred Care. “I would like to congratulate the recipients and thank them for their dedication to providing quality patient care.” The overall winner was Brenda Kinney, Horizon’s Executive Director for the Saint John area, and her team for their project
The Patient Safety Hero Awards are presented each year to a Horizon individual and a team who excel(s) in their commitment to safety, their innovative approach to create change that enhances patient safety, their collaborative spirit that proves we’re leaders, yet work as a team, and finally, through valuing and understanding the role of safety concerns expressed by patients and their families. This year there were four nominations for the individual category and five nominations for the team category. And the winners are… Individual: Rick Wallace Rick is a personal support worker in Family Medicine at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital who is always thinking about what’s best for the patient and his colleagues. He works diligently to provide the safest possible care for our patients.
The project began as a regional quality improvement initiative in 2018.
There are over 15,000 chemotherapy treatments per year across Horizon, making systemic cancer therapy (SCT) a vital part of cancer care service in the organization. With the increasing aging population and the climbing cancer incidence rates in New Brunswick, ensuring safe and competent delivery of SCT requires evidence-informed, standardized planning, education and monitoring. The team met their projected outcome of 100 per cent drug delivery, 100 per cent of the time, to 100 per cent of patients in environments that minimize hazardous drug exposure for all health care providers, patients and families. The process for set up and delivery of IV therapy is now a standardized process implemented in all Horizon sites. The New Brunswick Interprofessional Spine Assessment and Education Clinic project was a runner-up for the award. The project was led by Dana El-Mughayyar, Horizon research coordinator at Canada East Spine Centre in Saint John, and Tara M ann, physiotherapy manager at Horizon’s The Moncton Hospital, along with an interdisciplinary team at each site. Initially designed as a pilot project at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital and The Moncton Hospital to fill a gap in the current standard of care for low back pain patients, the program was created to better serve patients, and to help them return to good health through rapid assessment and excellent individualized care. The program provides timely access to care such as personalized exercise programs, treatment plans and specialist referrals. It has been effective in reducing unnecessary imaging and improving overall patient outcomes. Dr. Rebecca Mills, clinical neuropsychologist and Erica de Passillé, physiotherapist both from Horizon’s Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation in Fredericton were also runner-ups for their project: Enhancing Self- Management of Pain. The project team developed and introduced group-based pain education for both inpatients and outpatients, focusing on evidence-based non- pharmacological pain management strategies. Their work has influenced the entire team, making pain science education and pain self-management strategies now part of their everyday practice.
Individual Award Recipient, Rick Wallace.
TeamAward Recipients, Dr. Angus MacDonald and Jacquelynn Carter.
Team: Dr. Angus MacDonald and Jacquelynn Carter
adjusted their work to ensure it was the most patient-centered tool that could be put into practice, not only during COVID-19, but also in the future. Congratulations to the 2020 Patient Safety Hero Award recipients!
Dr. MacDonald and Jacquelynn, a registered nurse, were praised for their openness to feedback on their work around Simulation and Safety in the Emergency Department at Horizon’s The Moncton Hospital. They
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Horizon’s 2020 Awards of Distinction in Nursing Horizon’s Nursing Quality and Professionalism Committee recently held a ceremony for its third annual Awards of Distinction in Nursing. Historically, the awards were presented during a series of recognition events across Horizon’s facilities, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held virtually this year. The Awards of Distinction in Nursing highlight registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) who have been nominated by their colleagues for their excellence in nursing practice in the areas of leadership, clinical practice, mentorship and nursing novice. The Nursing Quality and Professionalism Committee received 40 submissions from across Horizon and 16 nursing professionals were formally recognized by the committee
and Geri Geldart, Horizon’s VP Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer. Award recipients were acknowledged for their contributions to nursing professionalism, as well as for exemplifying the mission, vision and values of our organization. Congratulations to all the 2020 Award of Distinction in Nursing recipients!
Brenda Kinney, Standardization of Systemic Cancer Therapy Delivery at Horizon project team lead, was presented with the Quality Quest Awards plaque at Horizon’s Saint John Regional Hospital.
Dana El-Mughayyar, with the New Brunswick Interprofessional Spine Assessment and Education Clinic (NB-ISAEC) project lead, was presented with the Quality Quest Awards plaque at the Canada East Spine Centre in Saint John.
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From left: Karen Hicks, LPN (Clinical Practice) pictured with nurse manager Christine Flanagan and unit colleagues; Brittany Lyons, RN (Nursing Novice), Kiera Strang, RN (Leadership); and Pauline MacDonald, RN (Mentorship).
From left: Carolyn Sutherland, RN (Mentorship); Jessica Marshall LPN (Nursing Novice); and Jaqueline Hare, RN (Leadership); accepting the award for Jaqueline is her husband Chris Hare, pictured with Lisa Keirstead Johnson, Nursing Practice Coordinator.
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From left: Brenda Zadorozny, RN (Clinical Practice); Veronica Jamieson, RN (Leadership - Fredericton); Courtney Curtis, RN (Nursing Novice); Lisa Jones, LPN (Mentorship); and Denise Gray, RN (Leadership - URV).
From left: Karen Bedford, RN (Leadership); Logan Rousselle, RN (Nursing Novice), Patti Reid-Shore, LPN (Mentorship); and Tracy Adams, RN (Clinical Practice), pictured with nurse manager Meghan Fitzgerald.
Enhancing Self-Management of Pain project team leads, Erica de Passillé and Dr. Rebecca Mills, were presented with the Quality Quest Awards plaque outside Horizon’s Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation.
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