March 16, 2020:  Meet the Magnet Champion Leadership Team!  Maria Gordon, BSN, RN, CCRN, Brazos Medical ICU Charge Nurse and RN lll, Julie Pickle, PT, MS, Inpatient Rehab Manager, and Victoria Contreras, Patient Liaison.  Here’s what they have to say about being a Magnet Champion and leader. Victoria: “Being a Magnet champion is important to me because while my role in the … [Read more...]

March 9, 2020:  There’s a great little book, “What you accept is what you teach” by Michael Henry Cohen. Cohen’s first chapter is entitled, “The pursuit of mediocrity is almost always successful.” As a Magnet organization, mediocrity is the opposite of what we pursue, which is excellence. What do we teach others through our actions? Do we teach integrity by doing the right … [Read more...]

February 24, 2020:  The second month of 2020 is almost over. How are you doing with your goals? What do you need to keep motivated? Sometimes sharing your successes and concerns with someone closest to you is all it takes to get re-inspired to keep going. I love this quote from Nelson Mandela, “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back … [Read more...]

February 17, 2020:  I hope you’ve had a chance to read all the I CARE recharge action plans posted in the cafeteria and be inspired by the work you are doing around resilience, diversity and inclusion. Maya Angelou said it best, “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no … [Read more...]

February 10, 2020:  This is the week we celebrate love and take time out to express our love to those closest to us.  I found a great quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that I’d like to share with you. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.  We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut … [Read more...]