Charity Tinkham
June 2025
Charity
Tinkham
,
BSN, RN
Emergency Department
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital
Columbus
,
OH
United States
Charity actively attempts to engage the staff and uplift department morale.
I have had the privilege of working beside Charity for the past 6 years as we both transitioned from Staff Nurses to Charge Nurses, Clinical Leads, and now into Clinical Nurse Managers. Charity has consistently shown leadership in the department and hospital while simultaneously working on her own professional growth and mentoring others on the unit. Charity is passionate not only about the department but the people in the department. Charity actively attempts to engage the staff and uplift department morale. She is so creative and has made a great display wall by our shift briefing room to showcase everyone who has been nominated or been awarded a DAISY or BEE award for each quarter. Pictures are taken of each nominee along with a snippet of why they were nominated, placed on daisy petals, then laminated and placed on the wall to make a daisy or a bee near the daisy. This is a great way to make our staff members feel special and acknowledged for the extraordinary care they give to our patients. Charity is a part of the hospital's falls committee and has worked diligently to decrease patient falls in the department over the past few years through education, changes in practice, and improved tracking of falls. Charity is currently mentoring a couple of clinical leaders in the department and sharing her knowledge about how to track project steps and work being completed, along with metrics to "think bigger than the department," so the associates have the work to refer back to in the case of Magnet stories or sharing successes with other departments. Charity supports all associate ideas and asks how she can support them to be successful or figure out the next steps in their vision. Charity encourages everyone to pursue their ideas in an attempt to make them come to life and gives them the resources to be successful. On top of all of these things she does, Charity is constantly attempting to find creative ways to help increase throughput in the emergency department. She helped transition an old transfusion clinic into additional ED rooms to see patients in, which the patients are loving. She also leads the ED triage committee and works closely with providers in the ED to creatively think of ways to get providers in front of patients when there is no available space in the department. She is a superstar and is so inspirational. Charity is an amazing addition to not only leadership and nursing, but also our system. I am proud to work alongside Charity.