Category: Nursing

Safety Culture & Virtue 8: Celebrate Retirement

By Gayle Porter
July 11, 2025

When I interviewed, I didn’t ask how retirement was celebrated – but in the years to come I would witness a variety of approaches to the topic. Some included

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Safety Culture & Virtue 7: Could Workplace Charity Damage Morale?

By Gayle Porter
June 19, 2025

How can we care for strangers if we don’t care for each other? I’ve noticed that workplaces thrive and become more virtuous, more safe, and have better retention when

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Safety Culture & Virtue 6: Lunch Breaks

By Gayle Porter
June 6, 2025

How much do you trust your coworkers to watch your patients during lunch? During a lunch break, bedside staff are able to realize if something is troubling them and provides

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Safety Culture & Virtue 4: Security

By Gayle Porter
May 9, 2025

Nurses are on the frontline of violence. And patients, already vulnerable from disease and disability, are at particular risk to the volatile environment of a healthcare organization. The current

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Safety Culture & Virtue 2: End of Life Care

By Gayle Porter
April 11, 2025

Some of my fondest memories from being a nurse were the times that I end of life care. It is a critical moment for the patient, but it’s also

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Smart Staff Surveys

By Gayle Porter
November 8, 2024

I heard about some fantastic solutions implemented by Advocate Health to improve the Nurse Manager role and the results make me feel hopeful. The problem they identified is that

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