In our work as Swedish Covenant Hospital nurses, we are supported by excellent nursing leadership, who allow us to offer you the highest quality of care. We are guided by exceptional managers and directors who are available to us in person or by phone and email almost anytime.
Our Chief Nursing Officer, Mary Shehan, earns our praise and respect every day because we appreciate her availability and presence. Mary makes a point to meet each new group of nurses at monthly orientation, and also attends our twice monthly clinical education skill validations, as well as the skill validations of nursing assistants and unit secretaries. And even when Mary is not immediately available to us, we know we can always quickly connect with someone in leadership.
Most of Swedish Covenant's nursing leaders have been here for ten or twenty years, and while their experience and skills mean they could work anywhere, they stay with us because they believe in our mission. Some of them have worked at for-profit hospitals but realized that a mission-based organization like Swedish Covenant was a better fit for them, with a more comprehensive focus on quality of care.
We're a diverse group of people who reflect the rich diversity of our neighborhood and the patients we care for, and we are united by a common set of virtues. We believe in respect, compassion, and equality, and you can feel those virtues in action behind every choice we make, and every conversation we have.
Swedish Covenant's nursing leadership is a collaborative group of dedicated professionals and caring people. They meet at least every month in a Coordinating Council, and are involved in staff participation groups, and nearly a dozen individual committees. Leadership is very visible in our hospital among staff and other departments, because Swedish Covenant's nursing leadership is a part of things at every level.
Every year we conduct a thorough nursing survey, a careful self-examination of how we work as a team, and how we can improve. The survey always tells us that we succeed in supporting our nurses' autonomy with strong management and leadership. Many on our nursing staff have been with Swedish Covenant for decades because they know they will always have the support and leadership they need to provide you with extraordinary health care, and because they believe in the mission of Swedish Covenant. As Mary Shehan says, "anything possible as long as it's done with the right intentions."
To learn more about our Journey to Magnet Excellence, click here. For more information about Nursing at Swedish Covenant Hospital, please call the Nursing Administration office at (773) 878-8200, Ext. 5600.
