December 2025
Erica
Jacobson
,
BSN, RN
HCA North Texas Division Educator
FRISCO
,
TX
United States
She is always critically thinking about how to streamline processes and asks important questions that will benefit the team.
Erica Jacobson is a true asset to the Market C Team. Though she oversees many areas that include not only surgical but also procedural interventions, she always makes herself available for her teammates. Through her inclusion in the orientation of new clinical educators from different specialties, she helps “put the picture together” so the new orientee can see the bigger impacts of the clinical educator role beyond their own scope.
As a subject matter expert on Malignant Hyperthermia education, she created a Malignant Hyperthermia Training Kit that she has shared with educators from ER to Acute and Critical Care in Fort Worth, Weatherford, and Denton, which helped in the completion of annual check-off and training required for each facility/unit by The Joint Commission. This kit was so thorough that the learners were able to recall the information from the education and explain the pathophysiology and rationale for pharmacological interventions weeks after the training was provided, a true impact on the learners' response to an emergency situation.
During a recent CSRE at Weatherford, she was pivotal in gathering and providing education documents requested by surveyors for not only surgical areas, but the entire facility. She supported the only other two newer educators at the facility that day by helping them understand the CSRE needs and processes, helping to advance their practice. Erica also created and educated the Surgical Areas in Weatherford on new services they’ll be providing, like Spine and Chemo, well in advance of “go-live,” in preparation for the staff on these changes. This proves her ability to plan for and support change that her different facilities anticipate. She is always critically thinking about how to streamline processes and asks important questions that will benefit the team.
Inclusive in problem solving, she is considerate of her entire team’s suggestions without shutting them down and thinks cerebrally on how to solve problems the entire team faces. In turn, she shares information she has learned with the team using effective communication as she understands how what she’s learned impacts more than just her areas. Though Erica is constantly busy, she is impactful. She is compassionate and cares about completing education that makes an impact on not only her staff members but her peers as well. She is most deserving of this award.
As a subject matter expert on Malignant Hyperthermia education, she created a Malignant Hyperthermia Training Kit that she has shared with educators from ER to Acute and Critical Care in Fort Worth, Weatherford, and Denton, which helped in the completion of annual check-off and training required for each facility/unit by The Joint Commission. This kit was so thorough that the learners were able to recall the information from the education and explain the pathophysiology and rationale for pharmacological interventions weeks after the training was provided, a true impact on the learners' response to an emergency situation.
During a recent CSRE at Weatherford, she was pivotal in gathering and providing education documents requested by surveyors for not only surgical areas, but the entire facility. She supported the only other two newer educators at the facility that day by helping them understand the CSRE needs and processes, helping to advance their practice. Erica also created and educated the Surgical Areas in Weatherford on new services they’ll be providing, like Spine and Chemo, well in advance of “go-live,” in preparation for the staff on these changes. This proves her ability to plan for and support change that her different facilities anticipate. She is always critically thinking about how to streamline processes and asks important questions that will benefit the team.
Inclusive in problem solving, she is considerate of her entire team’s suggestions without shutting them down and thinks cerebrally on how to solve problems the entire team faces. In turn, she shares information she has learned with the team using effective communication as she understands how what she’s learned impacts more than just her areas. Though Erica is constantly busy, she is impactful. She is compassionate and cares about completing education that makes an impact on not only her staff members but her peers as well. She is most deserving of this award.