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John Elliott, BSN, RN, CPN RN/Staff Educator, Nursing Resource Management (Pediatric Float Pool) Manager: Peggy Woolf John Elliott epitomizes the professional nurse. Whether he is working with patients directly, leading organizational projects, as a scientist looking at evidence-based practice, or transferring knowledge to his peers, patients, or leadership team, John does it in the finest way. John’s good heart and desire for patient-centered care, staff appreciation and organizational success makes him a highly engaged leader in Nursing Resource Management. As chair of the NRM’s unit-based nursing practice council (UBNPC) John has improved UBNPC efficiency, with timed meeting agendas, rethinking of retreat dates to allow for better planning, and helping to organize NRM’s Professional Practice Day. John is committed to patient safety and quality improvement and part of a group dedicated to fall reduction. He keeps dialogue on fall prevention alive, and communicates fall trending and creative prevention approaches to float pool members. As staff educator for the Pediatric Float Pool, John collaborates on orientation for new hires, mentors and advocates for them, and assures that Pediatric Float Pool RNs are up to date on competencies. He also enjoys precepting nursing students, and seeks the opportunity whenever he can. John has been key in developing and monitoring the group’s signature moment patient experience project, “Face Time”, and spearheaded last year’s “Hit the Breaks” project to ensure that float pool nurses receive breaks. He consistently encourages ongoing professional certification and continuing education with his peers and provides them with the tools to accomplish it. John’s influences reaches beyond OHSU: he was instrumental in forming a local chapter of the Society of Pediatric Nursing. John wrote the lyrics to OHSU Nursing’s Magnet video “The Dream is Alive in Portland”, which spoofed the infamous Portlandia video. View the video on the Magnet web page (search 02 for “Magnet”). The Mentoring category is described as “a nurse who provides positive professional influence, guidance, and support of other nurses in any setting. This nurse inspires others to transform service and care.”
I am humbled to receive this honor. I don’t know if it is that mentoring is something that comes naturally or if I just like to talk a lot. I think it’s more often the latter. Hopefully, though, when I talk I share thoughts, ideas, and useful information that benefits the hearer. There have been many individuals placed in my path over the course of my education and career who have served and (continue to serve me) by sharing what they know and by motivating me to grow, develop, learn, and to share myself. One of the first phrases I remember hearing in nursing school was from my clinical instructor who constantly repeated, “See one, do one, then teach one.” I sincerely believe that we are held accountable to the knowledge that we are blessed with and we are all indebted. We pay back that debt by sharing what we have learned to those whom we recognize can best utilize the information and benefit themselves and others by it. It’s more than transfer of knowledge though. My philosophy is that we also need to encourage one another. We put up with a great many details and “John can be counted on 1000% to get the job done.” Peggy Woolf, Nurse Manager inconveniences in our workplaces. But we are here for a nobler purpose. And we are individually inadequate to the task. We are not a rock or an island. I recently returned from a conference and one of the speakers said something I didn’t expect to hear. Most nurses, when prompted, will mechanically respond that (of course) the patient is the most important person in healthcare. It’s been drilled into us over and over again. But this speaker said, “The most important person in healthcare is YOU. Because if YOU are not there, where IS healthcare? Who will provide it? What happens to the patient?” In order to be there to meet the needs we must encourage, prod, remind, and lead each other toward the place where all the elements of great healthcare intersect. So, one more thing: if you have not already done so I encourage you to make your own statement of commitment to excellence and get certified in your specialty. John Elliott “He is an encouragement to me in my role and I have learned from him in the way that he conducts himself in his RN role. In essence he is a mentor to all he encounters.” Kathy Buhler, Professional Practice Leader
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