Pam Di Mattina
January 2024
Pam
Di Mattina
,
BSN, RN, CHPN
Palliative Care
ECU Health Medical Center
Greenville
,
NC
United States
Team members can always see Pam advocating with care and compassion for patients on palliative by collaborating with multiple departments of the hospital to ensure her patients are getting the care they need.
Here at ECU Health, our nursing professional practice module embodies several components that make our nursing practice a model of excellence. In the strive for excellence, there are several key components, such as quality of care, professionalism, lifelong learning, dedication, teamwork, advocacy, caring, and compassion. Nurses at ECU Health are asked to strive daily for all areas of this model in order to provide the best care to our patients.
Pam Di Mattina is the picture of our Nursing Professional Practice Model. Regarding quality of care, she is the quality skin lead for palliative care. She strives daily to ensure that all patients have their needs met to ensure that pressure injuries do not occur during their stay. She has a dedication to lifelong learning through her Master’s in Public Health, BSN, and is currently enrolled in the MSN clinical nurse specialist program at East Carolina University. Not only does she strive for her own advanced education, but she is also a clinical coach for new graduations and travelers on palliative care. Her teamwork with palliative shows every day by being part of the quality team and unit-based council. Her dedication to teamwork for ECU Health is shown by her being chair of the practice council committee, part of shared governance. Team members can always see her advocating with care and compassion for patients on palliative by collaborating with multiple departments of the hospital to ensure her patients are getting the care they need.
A recent day in September was no exception to the care performed by Pam. Patient B received discharge orders that afternoon. This discharge was lengthy due to the patient and spouse needing to learn how to operate new insulin pen devices and get medication from the outpatient pharmacy. During preparation for discharge, Pam discovered that the spouse did not have any money to purchase the required insulin needles needed for the pen. There was also the daylight aspect for driving as it was approaching 6 pm. The spouse was the transport home and did not drive after dark, so having her go home or an ATM to obtain money and then go get the needles was not an option. Pam knew this couple wanted to get home before dark, and the only hold-up was from a box of insulin needles, so Pam went to the pharmacy and purchased a box. Pam continued to take ample time to just sit in their room, with no distractions, and discuss their new diabetic regimen, including insulin pen teaching. Once teaching was completed, Pam assisted the patient to his spouse's car for discharge. On this day, Pam embodied all aspects of the professional practice model, including dedication, teamwork, caring, and compassion.
Pam Di Mattina is the picture of our Nursing Professional Practice Model. Regarding quality of care, she is the quality skin lead for palliative care. She strives daily to ensure that all patients have their needs met to ensure that pressure injuries do not occur during their stay. She has a dedication to lifelong learning through her Master’s in Public Health, BSN, and is currently enrolled in the MSN clinical nurse specialist program at East Carolina University. Not only does she strive for her own advanced education, but she is also a clinical coach for new graduations and travelers on palliative care. Her teamwork with palliative shows every day by being part of the quality team and unit-based council. Her dedication to teamwork for ECU Health is shown by her being chair of the practice council committee, part of shared governance. Team members can always see her advocating with care and compassion for patients on palliative by collaborating with multiple departments of the hospital to ensure her patients are getting the care they need.
A recent day in September was no exception to the care performed by Pam. Patient B received discharge orders that afternoon. This discharge was lengthy due to the patient and spouse needing to learn how to operate new insulin pen devices and get medication from the outpatient pharmacy. During preparation for discharge, Pam discovered that the spouse did not have any money to purchase the required insulin needles needed for the pen. There was also the daylight aspect for driving as it was approaching 6 pm. The spouse was the transport home and did not drive after dark, so having her go home or an ATM to obtain money and then go get the needles was not an option. Pam knew this couple wanted to get home before dark, and the only hold-up was from a box of insulin needles, so Pam went to the pharmacy and purchased a box. Pam continued to take ample time to just sit in their room, with no distractions, and discuss their new diabetic regimen, including insulin pen teaching. Once teaching was completed, Pam assisted the patient to his spouse's car for discharge. On this day, Pam embodied all aspects of the professional practice model, including dedication, teamwork, caring, and compassion.