Ewelina Bryja
December 2023
Ewelina
Bryja
,
RN, BSN
Pediatric Emergency Department
Advocate Children's Hospital Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn
,
IL
United States
Ewelina is often recognized in patient surveys as providing holistic care.
Ewelina comes to the unit every day with a smile on her face and an amazing attitude. She started in our outpatient hematology/oncology clinic as an aide and then made her transfer to the pediatric emergency department. Staff and parents in the clinic regarded her as a compassionate, amazing person to work with and were sad that when she graduated nursing school, she had a passion for another department.
She is often recognized in patient surveys as providing holistic care. Some survey quotes include, "My daughter was in the PED on Thursday, and I just wanted to reach out to you and tell you how wonderful your staff was. I believe it was this nurse in triage, and she saw the fear in my little 3-year-old girl. She played a video of Tom and Jerry to help take her vitals."
She establishes a connection with her patients that parents and families truly appreciate when they come in on some of their worst days. She has been mentioned by our emergency department techs as collaborative and one of the most well-respected nurses. Despite being a new graduate nurse in our department, she has already become actively involved in the unit. She is our PED shared governance chair, leading many initiatives for the unit. As chair, she has helped promote updating our patient whiteboards to improve patient experience. She leads by example and practices this in her daily work. She has also taken on the role of safety champion. In this role, the champions monitored safety events and noted a trend related to wasting controlled substances. The group came up with an innovative solution, tracking the waste in a binder, to increase awareness of the correct process. The team then created education in the form of an SBAR.
She is working on her professional development by starting the process of becoming a sexual assault nurse examiner. This training takes time and dedication, including simulations, clinical logs, and didactic learning. The patient population is vulnerable and deserves to be treated by a compassionate, empathetic nurse. She is also working on obtaining her port-a-catheter certification to be able to access them in a timely manner, as we know these patients need rapid intervention when they are coming to the PED. I am personally excited to see all that she will accomplish in her nursing career, as she has already accomplished so much in a short time.
She is often recognized in patient surveys as providing holistic care. Some survey quotes include, "My daughter was in the PED on Thursday, and I just wanted to reach out to you and tell you how wonderful your staff was. I believe it was this nurse in triage, and she saw the fear in my little 3-year-old girl. She played a video of Tom and Jerry to help take her vitals."
She establishes a connection with her patients that parents and families truly appreciate when they come in on some of their worst days. She has been mentioned by our emergency department techs as collaborative and one of the most well-respected nurses. Despite being a new graduate nurse in our department, she has already become actively involved in the unit. She is our PED shared governance chair, leading many initiatives for the unit. As chair, she has helped promote updating our patient whiteboards to improve patient experience. She leads by example and practices this in her daily work. She has also taken on the role of safety champion. In this role, the champions monitored safety events and noted a trend related to wasting controlled substances. The group came up with an innovative solution, tracking the waste in a binder, to increase awareness of the correct process. The team then created education in the form of an SBAR.
She is working on her professional development by starting the process of becoming a sexual assault nurse examiner. This training takes time and dedication, including simulations, clinical logs, and didactic learning. The patient population is vulnerable and deserves to be treated by a compassionate, empathetic nurse. She is also working on obtaining her port-a-catheter certification to be able to access them in a timely manner, as we know these patients need rapid intervention when they are coming to the PED. I am personally excited to see all that she will accomplish in her nursing career, as she has already accomplished so much in a short time.