Colleagues, I know we say this a lot, but it seems truer now than ever before – time really does fly. I can’t believe all that’s happened in just the past month and how quickly all the festivities of May are approaching. A lot has happened since my last newsletter message – the most important […]

Colleagues, As a follow-up to the Nursing Town Hall session in late January, I’d like to respond to several of the questions during the session and in the post-event survey. Most of the questions are related to compensation, work environment, or career advancement, so I’ll address those rather than some of the more specific questions. […]

Colleagues, I’ve survived my first day as CNO! In case you missed the email with the announcement last Friday, Dr. Krause sent a message announcing that I had been named the Chief Nursing Officer for UAMS Health effective Feb. 1, after serving in this role on an interim basis since October. I’m thrilled to take […]

Colleagues, A nationwide survey conducted in November by Gallup showed that Americans’ confidence in our medical system is not as high as it was 10 years ago. There are a number of likely contributors to this. The COVID pandemic and the resulting staffing shortages, concerns surrounding insurance providers/coverage, and higher prices for medical care related […]

Dear UAMS Nursing Colleagues, Over the past several weeks I’ve rounded on various units and visited with a number of you. I can see the exhaustion on many of your faces. Exhaustion, burnout and compassion fatigue are not issues just here at UAMS – they are affecting nurses across the United States. Being a nurse […]

Dear UAMS Nursing Colleagues, I can honestly say that I’ve never experienced anything like the past three weeks. Since accepting the interim chief nursing officer role, my life has been a whirlwind of questions, ideas, urgent challenges, a LOT of listening, and trying to figure out how to prioritize things that are all important. In […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]