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CONTENTS /
DR. TONGES LETTER
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- p2
/ Letter from Dr. Tonges
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- p16
/ Exemplary Professional Practice: Britni Pickett
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- p4
/ Diversity: Mila Kwak
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- p18
/ Nursing Staff Profile: Holly Rabinovich
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/ Transformational Leadership: Linda Drogos
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- p20
/ Feature article: Magnet Story
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- p22
/ Nursing Staff Recognition Awards
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- p25
/ Milestones
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/ Professional Accomplishments
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Polombo and Emily Nanney
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- p10
/ Structural Empowerment: Nita Parker
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- p12
/ New Knowledge: Chris McGrath
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/ Nursing Staff Profile: Jimmy Lancaster
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
2011
What a landmark year this has been! The University of North Carolina Hospitals received
Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center on November 17, 2010.
This is the highest form of recognition a health care organization can receive for excellence
in nursing care and practice, and we are very proud to be among the six percent of
hospitals that have achieved this designation.
I’d like to recap some of the highlights of this year. Some may have heard me say, “This is
a great place to be a member of the nursing staff, and it’s getting better all the time.”
Our accomplishments in the last year suggest that this is truer than ever before.
PEOPLE
Our overarching achievement in the People category
and the physicians with whom we work. Meeting the
Please note that this is a hospital designation, and
ways:
has to be that UNCH was granted Magnet recognition.
Magnet standards benefits different groups in many
we are very fortunate to work within an organization
• Patients cared for in hospitals that have achieved
that encourages and supports nursing excellence. We
share this honor with colleagues throughout UNCH,
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including members of other departments
Magnet status report higher levels of satisfaction
and experience fewer complications and a lower
mortality rate as compared to facilities without it.