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  3. Author: Trenda Ray

Trenda Ray

Becoming Good Listeners

Earlier this year UAMS Health was one of only six health organizations across the United States selected by the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare to participate in the center’s inaugural Healing Healthcare Initiative (HHI). The Schwartz Center, a national nonprofit dedicated to putting compassion at the heart of health care, developed this initiative to guide […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Welcome ALL to UAMS

Remember what the first day of school felt like? If you were going back to the same school with friends from the previous year, it likely meant catching up on the gossip of the summer, comparing new school supplies, making plans for play dates and ball games and easing back into familiar routines with your […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Work Friendships

One of the things we hear repeatedly from UAMS Health nurses is that the things that make working at UAMS so different from any other health care facility are the learning opportunities, the clinical ladder and the colleagues who so quickly become like family. UAMS is so big and diverse that everyone can find “their […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Happy New Year! New Class of Residents

Happy New Year! Others outside an academic medical center are probably confused by this, but, if you know you know. Like every other July, our hospital and clinics are now home to a new class of residents and many new employees. I’m pleased to share that almost 100 of our new employees this month are […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

New Post-COVID norm for Nursing

Two weeks ago our daughter Olivia was one of the 157 students who graduated from the UAMS College of Medicine. I have to say, this was one of the proudest Mom moments of my life. I look forward to seeing how much more she learns and grows during her residency in Emergency Medicine here at […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Nurses Week at UAMS

Earlier this week Jimmy Kimmel featured a montage of newscasters and meteorologists expressing their dismay that we’ve reached May already. I’m with Todd Yakoubian – I can’t believe it either. Yet, here we are, and the 203rd anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday is one week from today. Which means we will be celebrating Nurses Week at […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Severe Weather

One thing I’ve heard over and over from people who were caught in last week’s tornadoes was how quickly it was over – and how dramatically things changed. We are so fortunate that there were so few injuries and fatalities here in Arkansas. I guess all the elementary school drills and information from our local […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Thank goodness for vaccines and boosters

1,052 – that’s the number of days from when the first patient tested positive for COVID-19 in Arkansas and when I tested positive a few weeks ago. Like many of you, I was ready to sigh a sigh of relief that I had escaped this virus unscathed, but it wasn’t meant to be. It started with […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Smiles!

Smiles! Oh how I love seeing them again! I hope this means we have turned the corner and can leave the pain of the past month and the struggles of the past three years behind. January 2023 has to go down as one of the most difficult months in UAMS history. We returned from the holiday […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

Loss

The beginning of 2023 was not the festive celebration I had anticipated, having just learned of the passing of our colleague, UAMS College of Medicine Dean Susan Smyth. Since joining UAMS in March 2021, she supported our nursing programs and worked to enhance communication and collaboration between clinical programs and the College of Medicine.  I also lost […]

Filed Under: CNO Corner

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