Nursing
Magnet Minute: September 2021
This month we feature two nurses on the Research Council. Andrea Cinnamon and Jeff Coto are serving as investigators for a current research study: Pet Assisted Therapy and Nurse Work Anxiety.
Nursing Mental Health and Resilience Support
The American Nurses Foundation and the American Nurses Association launched a series of surveys to nurses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. All data gathered has been used for decisions about how to best support nurses during and after this public health crisis.
Explore these free tools and resources offered through the American Nurses Foundation’s Well-Being Initiative:
- Moodfit: Provides tools & insight to improve the fitness of your mental health, including: Self-care, Mood journal, Gratitude journal, Mindfulness meditation, Breathing exercises, CBT thought record, Reminders with key messages, Tips & inspiration.
- Happy App: Nursing professionals can call these support-givers for free. If you ever find yourself needing to talk with someone after a challenging shift, to relieve yourself of stressful thoughts and concerns, or to rebuild your resilience with emotional support, the Happy App Warm Line can help.
- A Nursing State of Mind Podcast Series: In this podcast series, two veteran nurses discuss coping mechanisms with practical ideas to renew our energy, confidence, and the passion for nursing.
- COVID 19 Resource Center: All the COVID-19 resources nurses need, all in one place. Sign up for information, support, and more from ANA’s COVID-19 Resource Center.
- Gratitude Practice for Nurses: Download the Toolkit.
- Narrative Expressive Writing (NEW): Can help build resilience, improve mindfulness, and reduce psychological distress.
- Dealing with GRIEF Videos: A Series of 5 Short, Powerful Videos aims to provide timely and practical information to help you care for the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of your patients and their families.
- After Work Checklist
- Nurses House: National fund for Nurses in need of short-term financial assistance due to illness or disability.
Nursing Mental Health & Resilience Support
The American Nurses Foundation and the American Nurses Association launched a series of surveys to nurses
at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. All data gathered have been used to for decisions about how to best
support nurses during and after this public health crisis.
- Moodfit: Provides tools & insight to improve the fitness of your mental health, including: Selfcare, Mood journal, Gratitude journal, Mindfulness meditation, Breathing exercises, CBT
thought record, Reminders with key messages, Tips & inspiration. - Happy App: Nursing professionals can call these support-givers for free. If you ever find yourself needing to talk with someone after a challenging shift, to relieve yourself of stressful thoughts and concerns, or to rebuild your resilience with emotional support, the Happy App Warm Line can help.
- A Nursing State of Mind Podcast Series: In this podcast, two veteran nurses discuss coping mechanisms with practical ideas to renew our energy, confidence, and passion for nursing.
- COVID 19 Resource Center: All the COVID-19 resources nurses need, all in one place. Sign up for information, support, and more from ANA’s COVID-19 Resource Center.
- Gratitude Practice for Nurses: Download the Toolkit.
- Narrative Expressive Writing (NEW): Can help resilience, improve mindfulness, and reduce psychological distress.
- Dealing with GRIEF Videos: A series of 5 short, powerful videos aims to provide timely and practical information to help you care for the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of your patients and their families.
- After Work Checklist
- Nurses House: National fund for nurses in need of short-term financial assistance due to illness or disability.
DAISY Award: Rochelle R
Congratulations to our newest DAISY Award Winner, Rochelle Ruff, an RN at Riverside’s Miller Rehabilitation Center in Kankakee. The DAISY Award is an honor that recognizes the exceptional, skillful, and compassionate care these nurses demonstrate for our patients and families every day.
Rochelle’s nomination noted: Mary, wife of Hospice patient, James. James gets agitated at times, and his wife informed her that singing old hymns to him will calm him down. Rochelle asked her what hymns he likes and told Mary she knows those and promised to sing to him. Mary states that nothing could have comforted her more than knowing Rochelle was willing to sing to her actively dying husband! While [the nominee was] coming to thank her after meeting with Mary, [the nominee] found Rochelle in James’s room singing to him.
We are grateful to have Rochelle caring for our patients and residents. #daisyaward
Nursing Honor Guard
Everyone is invited to help us recognized our nurses who have retired and also memorialize our nurses who have departed within the last year. The event will take place on August 18, 2021, at 4 p.m. in the Reflection Garden at Riverside Medical Center.
As Nurses pledge to care for their patients, with loyalty and as a missioner of health, devoting themselves to the service of human welfare, Riverside also pledges to support our Nurses.
On August 18th, 2021, in the Riverside Healing Garden, we will unite to recognize our RN’s and LPN’s who have retired from Riverside Healthcare, and we will also memorialize our nurses who have departed within the last year.
Riverside is grateful for each of our nurses who walk with each of us in our community on our remarkable journeys.
Do you know a Riverside nurse who has either retired or passed away during the last year. Contact Andrea Keith [email protected] with their name so we can make sure to include them.
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