Joseph Sobol
September 2023
Joseph
Sobol
,
BSN, RN
Rapid Response Team
Abington Hospital Jefferson Health
Abington
,
PA
United States
Joe is an incredibly talented Critical Care Nurse, who is a key player on our Rapid Response Team.
Joe is an incredibly positive person and a very skilled educator. He is a trusted voice to front-line nurses, who look to him for guidance and support within the complexity of the care they deliver. He leverages those superpowers to make a positive impact on his colleagues and partner with others to advance safer patient care.
One particular example of this is worthy of special mention. Joe has done some extraordinary work as an RRT RN, in advancing the Safe Watch Program and Sepsis care at Abington Hospital. Joe is an incredibly talented Critical Care Nurse, who is a key player on our Rapid Response Team. Earlier this year, the enterprise was looking for early adopters of the Safe Watch program, an EMR-based program, whose goal was to identify none present on admission patients who were deteriorating in house--potentially from sepsis--and to "rescue" them by getting critical care RN bedside evaluation early and as appropriate, escalating their level of care.
Joe was an innovator in this space. He saw the vision for what this tool could potentially offer our sepsis patients and had the courage to become an early adopter and champion for the tool. What makes this so special is that on the first iteration, the tool was not optimal--in fact, it exceeded human capability and capacity to do work. Despite the challenges presented in its first iteration, Joe painted a positive vision and was able to speak articulately and persuasively to his colleagues, becoming a key influencer for adoption and engagement with the tool and the program. He rallied his team members to work with the tool, helped collect feedback on its utility, and ultimately, advanced that feedback to the enterprise analytics team, in partnership with his RRT colleagues, to make the tool more usable, functional, and practical.
Thanks to Joe, many of his RRT colleagues, and our Critical Care Nursing Leadership Team, Abington Hospital has been a successful early adopter of the safe watch program, which has saved lives and has offered leadership to the entire enterprise on the workflows and EMR changes needed to make this program a success.
One particular example of this is worthy of special mention. Joe has done some extraordinary work as an RRT RN, in advancing the Safe Watch Program and Sepsis care at Abington Hospital. Joe is an incredibly talented Critical Care Nurse, who is a key player on our Rapid Response Team. Earlier this year, the enterprise was looking for early adopters of the Safe Watch program, an EMR-based program, whose goal was to identify none present on admission patients who were deteriorating in house--potentially from sepsis--and to "rescue" them by getting critical care RN bedside evaluation early and as appropriate, escalating their level of care.
Joe was an innovator in this space. He saw the vision for what this tool could potentially offer our sepsis patients and had the courage to become an early adopter and champion for the tool. What makes this so special is that on the first iteration, the tool was not optimal--in fact, it exceeded human capability and capacity to do work. Despite the challenges presented in its first iteration, Joe painted a positive vision and was able to speak articulately and persuasively to his colleagues, becoming a key influencer for adoption and engagement with the tool and the program. He rallied his team members to work with the tool, helped collect feedback on its utility, and ultimately, advanced that feedback to the enterprise analytics team, in partnership with his RRT colleagues, to make the tool more usable, functional, and practical.
Thanks to Joe, many of his RRT colleagues, and our Critical Care Nursing Leadership Team, Abington Hospital has been a successful early adopter of the safe watch program, which has saved lives and has offered leadership to the entire enterprise on the workflows and EMR changes needed to make this program a success.