Vanessa Murphy
November 2020
Vanessa
Murphy
,
RN, CCRN
ICU
St. Joseph's Hospitals and South Florida Baptist Hospital
Vanessa's biggest accomplishment was implementing manual pronation therapy for our COVID patients. Not only did it improve outcomes, but our nursing team found it easier and more effective than the Rotoprone therapy bed.
August 2014, I had the pleasure of interviewing this nurse. She was CCRN certified and received many awards while she was at her previous employer. I immediately notified my recruiter to offer her a full-time day shift position and she accepted. She was instrumental in our Hospital and she quickly advanced within our leadership team. She acted as relief charge since open and then became a full-time charge nurse in 1/2016. She is one of the most knowledgeable and compassionate RNs I have ever met. She has the unique ability to pass on this knowledge with ease. She is a clinical instructor and is well respected by the staff and her students. She precepted many of our new hires. She has been nominated many times for the Clinical Nurse Excellence award and was Team member of the month. She took over managing Stroke compliance we have been 95-100% compliant with little to no fallout.
With our COVID pandemic, she has continued to shine by working extra charge shifts, and when she was not charge she was consistently on the unit being a resource for our team and assisting with patient care along with maintaining leadership responsibilities. She created an amazing video to build team morale during this pandemic and I still watch occasionally, and it gives me chills to see what we have gone through and overcome as a team. I am not sure how she juggled all this with having kids at home and her husband being a firefighter and gone for 24 hours. She remains strong and professional at all times and you would never notice the added stress in her life.
She should be recognized for all of this but her biggest accomplishment was implementing manual pronation therapy for our COVID patients. Not only did it improve outcomes, but our nursing team found it easier and more effective than the Rotoprone therapy bed. It also benefited BayCare as this was implemented in every facility and was also rolled out to Non-Critical Care COVID units. The Roto-prone therapy bed cost is approximately $1,500 a day and we have not rented a bed since the beginning of March 2019. In just 2 of our facilities, this has been a saving of $50,000 from July of 2019 to July 2020.
A comment received by one of her co-workers. "Vanessa will always fight for her patients and her nurses. She is never afraid to pick up the phone and call whoever it is. She stands behind her staff and always gives people the benefit of the doubt. She's a bulldog". She is truly a DAISY Nurse. We all respect and appreciate her.
With our COVID pandemic, she has continued to shine by working extra charge shifts, and when she was not charge she was consistently on the unit being a resource for our team and assisting with patient care along with maintaining leadership responsibilities. She created an amazing video to build team morale during this pandemic and I still watch occasionally, and it gives me chills to see what we have gone through and overcome as a team. I am not sure how she juggled all this with having kids at home and her husband being a firefighter and gone for 24 hours. She remains strong and professional at all times and you would never notice the added stress in her life.
She should be recognized for all of this but her biggest accomplishment was implementing manual pronation therapy for our COVID patients. Not only did it improve outcomes, but our nursing team found it easier and more effective than the Rotoprone therapy bed. It also benefited BayCare as this was implemented in every facility and was also rolled out to Non-Critical Care COVID units. The Roto-prone therapy bed cost is approximately $1,500 a day and we have not rented a bed since the beginning of March 2019. In just 2 of our facilities, this has been a saving of $50,000 from July of 2019 to July 2020.
A comment received by one of her co-workers. "Vanessa will always fight for her patients and her nurses. She is never afraid to pick up the phone and call whoever it is. She stands behind her staff and always gives people the benefit of the doubt. She's a bulldog". She is truly a DAISY Nurse. We all respect and appreciate her.