Vicki Graves
June 2015
Vicki
Graves
,
RN
NICU
Community Memorial Health System
Ventura
,
CA
United States
Vicki Graves is a NICU Charge RN and RNIV. She consistently demonstrates a positive attitude, dedication to excellence and team work. Vicki is available to her team and cheerfully comes in extra when needed.
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Vicki is always positive and maintains a professional attitude even during periods of high stress in the unit. She is proactive and displays sound judgment. Her peers view her as a role model.
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Vicki is a team player, always willing to help others and in fact seeking out opportunities and ways to assist her peers and co-workers.
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Vicki has excellent communications skills. She communicates clearly and effectively with all types of persons, professional and non-professional, families, physicians, co-workers.
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Vicki is very sensitive to the needs of her patients and their families. She takes extra time with all patients and demonstrates extreme patience and empathy especially with our most difficult families. Vicki viewed as role model for family centered care by her peers.
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Vicki has excellent assessment and clinical skills with the ability to recognize and act on subtle changes in a patient's condition She evaluates and updates her PoCs based on her patient's assessments and changing needs. Vicki is calm and efficient in emergent situations. Coworkers frequently seek out her advice and she consistently functions as a resource to others not only in neonatal care but as an expert in OR nursing as well (she works in surgery at another local hospital.)
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Vicki embraces and blends CMHS' values of integrity, service, excellence and caring with her own core values of respect and compassion and demonstrates them toward her coworkers and patients every day. She incorporates these values into her leadership skills by being a tactful, yet direct, communicator; a supportive and encouraging leader and modeling her professional role by "walking like she talks." Vicki is always available to assist less experienced nurses with challenging assignments, answers questions and mentors others as their clinical and critical thinking skills are expanded. She remains professional, even in difficult situations; presenting herself as a confident, competent nurse that helps to foster positive and effective relationships with staff and patients. Vicki frequently works additional shifts, not for financial gain, but for her "team." Vicki has a wonderful sense of humor, is creative and motivates unity within the MCH department. She consistently maintains a positive attitude and promotes cohesiveness by demonstrating a "can do" attitude.
She is an active member of the department's Professional Practice Committee and is proactive with multiple interdisciplinary staff, presenting a positive image of the unit. Vicki demonstrates courage to advocate for patients and staff and displays a commitment to this organization and outstanding clinical competence by recently earning her certification in neonatal intensive care nursing. It is not the job of being a nurse leader that makes Vicki great, but the love of her work that shows through her actions.
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Vicki is always positive and maintains a professional attitude even during periods of high stress in the unit. She is proactive and displays sound judgment. Her peers view her as a role model.
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Vicki is a team player, always willing to help others and in fact seeking out opportunities and ways to assist her peers and co-workers.
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Vicki has excellent communications skills. She communicates clearly and effectively with all types of persons, professional and non-professional, families, physicians, co-workers.
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Vicki is very sensitive to the needs of her patients and their families. She takes extra time with all patients and demonstrates extreme patience and empathy especially with our most difficult families. Vicki viewed as role model for family centered care by her peers.
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Vicki has excellent assessment and clinical skills with the ability to recognize and act on subtle changes in a patient's condition She evaluates and updates her PoCs based on her patient's assessments and changing needs. Vicki is calm and efficient in emergent situations. Coworkers frequently seek out her advice and she consistently functions as a resource to others not only in neonatal care but as an expert in OR nursing as well (she works in surgery at another local hospital.)
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Vicki embraces and blends CMHS' values of integrity, service, excellence and caring with her own core values of respect and compassion and demonstrates them toward her coworkers and patients every day. She incorporates these values into her leadership skills by being a tactful, yet direct, communicator; a supportive and encouraging leader and modeling her professional role by "walking like she talks." Vicki is always available to assist less experienced nurses with challenging assignments, answers questions and mentors others as their clinical and critical thinking skills are expanded. She remains professional, even in difficult situations; presenting herself as a confident, competent nurse that helps to foster positive and effective relationships with staff and patients. Vicki frequently works additional shifts, not for financial gain, but for her "team." Vicki has a wonderful sense of humor, is creative and motivates unity within the MCH department. She consistently maintains a positive attitude and promotes cohesiveness by demonstrating a "can do" attitude.
She is an active member of the department's Professional Practice Committee and is proactive with multiple interdisciplinary staff, presenting a positive image of the unit. Vicki demonstrates courage to advocate for patients and staff and displays a commitment to this organization and outstanding clinical competence by recently earning her certification in neonatal intensive care nursing. It is not the job of being a nurse leader that makes Vicki great, but the love of her work that shows through her actions.