Chelsea E Messier
July 2022
Chelsea E
Messier
,
MSN, RN, CMSRN
4 West Medical-Surgical
Spectrum Health-Butterworth Hospital
Grand Rapids
,
MI
United States
She sets a perfect example of what she wants the culture to be on 4 West and does whatever she can to keep it a safe and healthy environment for our patients and staff members.
Chelsea is the most influential and respected manager I have ever worked with in my five years at Butterworth. Chelsea shows up every day with a positive attitude and leads by setting an example. She is knowledgeable, efficient, honest, hardworking, compassionate, and is constantly striving to improve the way we care for both patients and ourselves.
Our Chelsea is extremely knowledgeable as both a nurse and a leader. Chelsea earned her BSN in 2012 and has blessed Spectrum Butterworth with her presence ever since. In the ten years she has been a nurse, she has gained working knowledge in caring for both pediatric and adult patients. Her wide scope of knowledge is such a great asset to have in the Med/Surg world. She has worked her way up from charge, to supervisor and now nurse manager. On top of all her hard work on the unit during the pandemic, and planning her wedding, she achieved her MSN in 2021!
Our Chelsea works incredibly hard. When other managers show up to work in office clothes, Chelsea wears her scrubs. When she is not in meetings, you can find her sprinting to call lights, helping with bed changes, de-escalating patients, cheerfully chatting with family members, feeding patients, passing meds, and doing whatever she can to support her staff. People often mistake her for a floor nurse because she is so active on the unit! In return, her staff is willing to work just as hard for her. She sets a perfect example of what she wants the culture to be on 4 West and does whatever she can to keep it a safe and healthy environment for our patients and staff members. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen her, on her way out the door, dropping her bag on the ground to run to an alarm or speak with a concerned patient.
Our Chelsea is a fantastic leader. In the three years she has been a nurse manager, Chelsea has built a tremendously strong, and loyal, team. She has turned a tempestuous unit into an environment where every staff member can feel safe, supported, and truly enjoy coming to work. She is the only manager I know who willingly keeps her office next to two bathrooms (when there is a beautiful and quiet room offered to her) just so she can keep her door open to staff during the day and stay in tune with what is going on in the unit.
Examples of Chelsea's thoughtful leadership:
• In the face of rising acuity in our patients on 4 West, she spent a year and a half collecting data and advocating for our nurses in order to be able to permanently change our staffing numbers. It has made a world of difference in patient safety and staff morale!
• Throughout the constant changes during the pandemic, Chelsea has made sure to be in constant communication with us about any changes. She was at every MDI and stayed in touch through meetings and emails to keep us healthy, informed, and safe.
• I walked into her office around Christmas and it looked like Santa's Workshop and she was the only elf working! She was putting together a small stocking for each person on the unit and was filling it with their favorite treats from their questionnaire. She even wrote each name by hand. That was eighty stockings!
Our Chelsea is the sun to our 4 West solar system. She is such an integrated and essential part of our unit. Words cannot fully paint a picture of how much her hard work and advocacy have affected us as a unit. We are truly blessed to have her as our leader and she very much deserves to be recognized for her time, efforts, and commitment to improving health care, safety and earnestly making a difference in the lives of her staff and the lives of every patient admitted to our unit.
Our Chelsea is extremely knowledgeable as both a nurse and a leader. Chelsea earned her BSN in 2012 and has blessed Spectrum Butterworth with her presence ever since. In the ten years she has been a nurse, she has gained working knowledge in caring for both pediatric and adult patients. Her wide scope of knowledge is such a great asset to have in the Med/Surg world. She has worked her way up from charge, to supervisor and now nurse manager. On top of all her hard work on the unit during the pandemic, and planning her wedding, she achieved her MSN in 2021!
Our Chelsea works incredibly hard. When other managers show up to work in office clothes, Chelsea wears her scrubs. When she is not in meetings, you can find her sprinting to call lights, helping with bed changes, de-escalating patients, cheerfully chatting with family members, feeding patients, passing meds, and doing whatever she can to support her staff. People often mistake her for a floor nurse because she is so active on the unit! In return, her staff is willing to work just as hard for her. She sets a perfect example of what she wants the culture to be on 4 West and does whatever she can to keep it a safe and healthy environment for our patients and staff members. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen her, on her way out the door, dropping her bag on the ground to run to an alarm or speak with a concerned patient.
Our Chelsea is a fantastic leader. In the three years she has been a nurse manager, Chelsea has built a tremendously strong, and loyal, team. She has turned a tempestuous unit into an environment where every staff member can feel safe, supported, and truly enjoy coming to work. She is the only manager I know who willingly keeps her office next to two bathrooms (when there is a beautiful and quiet room offered to her) just so she can keep her door open to staff during the day and stay in tune with what is going on in the unit.
Examples of Chelsea's thoughtful leadership:
• In the face of rising acuity in our patients on 4 West, she spent a year and a half collecting data and advocating for our nurses in order to be able to permanently change our staffing numbers. It has made a world of difference in patient safety and staff morale!
• Throughout the constant changes during the pandemic, Chelsea has made sure to be in constant communication with us about any changes. She was at every MDI and stayed in touch through meetings and emails to keep us healthy, informed, and safe.
• I walked into her office around Christmas and it looked like Santa's Workshop and she was the only elf working! She was putting together a small stocking for each person on the unit and was filling it with their favorite treats from their questionnaire. She even wrote each name by hand. That was eighty stockings!
Our Chelsea is the sun to our 4 West solar system. She is such an integrated and essential part of our unit. Words cannot fully paint a picture of how much her hard work and advocacy have affected us as a unit. We are truly blessed to have her as our leader and she very much deserves to be recognized for her time, efforts, and commitment to improving health care, safety and earnestly making a difference in the lives of her staff and the lives of every patient admitted to our unit.