Minetta J Ralleca
May 2023
Minetta J
Ralleca
,
MSN/INF, NP(c)-DNP(c)
Intensive Care Unit
Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center
Redwood City, CA
,
CA
United States
ANM Minetta's compassion and empathy that day surpassed any nursing care I have ever witnessed and made the patient's pain slightly less than it would have been with any other nurse.
To be a good assistant nurse manager, you need to be a leader who is not afraid to advocate for patients and other staff on the unit, the nurses, and everyone involved. You must know how to solve every single problem; it means you must know how to use your resources to get things done. That's our Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) Minetta Ralleca.
With over 17 years of experience, ANM Minetta embraces principles essential to uplifting the quality of patient care while developing the systems, values, and wisdom that lead the nurses every day. She was able to use her skills to build a solid foundation for her work as an assistant nurse manager (ANM). Her kindness and attention to detail in her job were profoundly moving and an excellent example of excellence in nursing practice. ANM Minetta's professionalism requires more than simply wearing scrubs and speaking politely. Her workability can create other opportunities for enhancing core professional values. Those opportunities are embedded in a new set of responsibilities and demands to improve patient outcomes by enriching the quality of care the clinical team delivers.
ANM Minetta is a great assistant nurse manager, which is challenging to find, as she is multidimensional and has strong organizational and governance skills. She has proven mature clinical experience as the foundation of the assistant nurse manager role. In addition to her expertise, her leadership, communication and collaboration, organization, and emotional intelligence are qualities of a great nurse leader. She continues to show employees the meaning of support. Whether it be staying late to help nurses finish their work, talking through the first port accession, or supervising high patient flow, ANM Minetta is the person you want when times become challenging. She works tirelessly to enable her staff to succeed.
As a nurse leader, she supervised the ICU procedures. She ensured that each measure was accompanied by a report, emphasizing the personal impact of the treatment on a patient or family. She reminds the nurses and staff that not only is there a science to ICU care, but also the art of ensuring the patient and family experience is always at the center of their profession. While working in the ICU, it is common to become complacent or calm by the pains of life. ANM Minetta suppresses these emotions to continue returning the next day and care for the following traumas. But working next to ANM Minetta, the effects of the ICU have not taken the compassion and watch out of ANM Minetta's practice.
That day, tragedy hit the ICU when a patient had a severe injury that left herself immobilized. This assignment would weigh heavily on any seasoned nurse, but as a newly assigned nurse at Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, ANM Minetta felt the emotion of her work during the shift report and immediately placed her sentiment in the back of her head. She showed tenderhearted kindness to this grieving family for the entire shift. She comforted the patient in every way possible and did not once falter her support. As the nearby nurse, I watched ANM Minetta suppress the entire unit's emotions that day and focus only on the patient's well-being. As an ICU nurse, it is hard to feel these emotions, and many of us suppress them to get through another shift. But ANM Minetta's compassion and empathy that day surpassed any nursing care I have ever witnessed and made the patient's pain slightly less than it would have been with any other nurse. She demonstrated it by providing her patients with their needed care and support.
As an assistant nurse manager, Minetta sees each patient every day. She performs a quick touch base with some patients and sees how everything is going. With other patients, she's much more involved. It could be that there is some issue or that staff nurses need assistance with a specific procedure. She has a heart and the ability to speak with warmth and empathy. She advocates for her patients and consults the appropriate people if she has any concerns in the hospital. ANM Minetta knows how to lead a team of nurses with faith and determination, specifically in times of high pressure and constricted targets. She acts as a role model and attains project management and quality improvement initiatives to increase the quality of care with proven outcomes.ANM Minetta makes sure the team is operating effectively and works to form a feeling of trust and closeness between establishing a trusting and harmonious support alliance to build a relationship between nurses and employees. She ensures that team cohesion is created, and conflict is managed effectively. Her management, experience, family-centered style, and originality have made and obstructed several nurses, patients, families, and the unit.
Finally, my favorite thing about ANM Minetta is that she gets to work closely with the nurses on the floor and help develop them. She especially likes working with new graduates. She has a very challenging specialty, so she often has yet to learn about some of the things she does. A lot of teaching, coaching, and mentoring is involved in getting them where they need to be to succeed.
With over 17 years of experience, ANM Minetta embraces principles essential to uplifting the quality of patient care while developing the systems, values, and wisdom that lead the nurses every day. She was able to use her skills to build a solid foundation for her work as an assistant nurse manager (ANM). Her kindness and attention to detail in her job were profoundly moving and an excellent example of excellence in nursing practice. ANM Minetta's professionalism requires more than simply wearing scrubs and speaking politely. Her workability can create other opportunities for enhancing core professional values. Those opportunities are embedded in a new set of responsibilities and demands to improve patient outcomes by enriching the quality of care the clinical team delivers.
ANM Minetta is a great assistant nurse manager, which is challenging to find, as she is multidimensional and has strong organizational and governance skills. She has proven mature clinical experience as the foundation of the assistant nurse manager role. In addition to her expertise, her leadership, communication and collaboration, organization, and emotional intelligence are qualities of a great nurse leader. She continues to show employees the meaning of support. Whether it be staying late to help nurses finish their work, talking through the first port accession, or supervising high patient flow, ANM Minetta is the person you want when times become challenging. She works tirelessly to enable her staff to succeed.
As a nurse leader, she supervised the ICU procedures. She ensured that each measure was accompanied by a report, emphasizing the personal impact of the treatment on a patient or family. She reminds the nurses and staff that not only is there a science to ICU care, but also the art of ensuring the patient and family experience is always at the center of their profession. While working in the ICU, it is common to become complacent or calm by the pains of life. ANM Minetta suppresses these emotions to continue returning the next day and care for the following traumas. But working next to ANM Minetta, the effects of the ICU have not taken the compassion and watch out of ANM Minetta's practice.
That day, tragedy hit the ICU when a patient had a severe injury that left herself immobilized. This assignment would weigh heavily on any seasoned nurse, but as a newly assigned nurse at Kaiser Permanente Redwood City, ANM Minetta felt the emotion of her work during the shift report and immediately placed her sentiment in the back of her head. She showed tenderhearted kindness to this grieving family for the entire shift. She comforted the patient in every way possible and did not once falter her support. As the nearby nurse, I watched ANM Minetta suppress the entire unit's emotions that day and focus only on the patient's well-being. As an ICU nurse, it is hard to feel these emotions, and many of us suppress them to get through another shift. But ANM Minetta's compassion and empathy that day surpassed any nursing care I have ever witnessed and made the patient's pain slightly less than it would have been with any other nurse. She demonstrated it by providing her patients with their needed care and support.
As an assistant nurse manager, Minetta sees each patient every day. She performs a quick touch base with some patients and sees how everything is going. With other patients, she's much more involved. It could be that there is some issue or that staff nurses need assistance with a specific procedure. She has a heart and the ability to speak with warmth and empathy. She advocates for her patients and consults the appropriate people if she has any concerns in the hospital. ANM Minetta knows how to lead a team of nurses with faith and determination, specifically in times of high pressure and constricted targets. She acts as a role model and attains project management and quality improvement initiatives to increase the quality of care with proven outcomes.ANM Minetta makes sure the team is operating effectively and works to form a feeling of trust and closeness between establishing a trusting and harmonious support alliance to build a relationship between nurses and employees. She ensures that team cohesion is created, and conflict is managed effectively. Her management, experience, family-centered style, and originality have made and obstructed several nurses, patients, families, and the unit.
Finally, my favorite thing about ANM Minetta is that she gets to work closely with the nurses on the floor and help develop them. She especially likes working with new graduates. She has a very challenging specialty, so she often has yet to learn about some of the things she does. A lot of teaching, coaching, and mentoring is involved in getting them where they need to be to succeed.