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A LETTER FROM DEBORAH BAKER: NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING

Sharing Our Voices, Influencing Change

cross the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS), specific care interventions that will yield the best
we know that many of the best ideas and patient-centered outcome. The Johns Hopkins Center
A innovations come directly from our nurses and for Nursing Inquiry (CNI) is led by our nurse scientist,
nursing staff. Our leaders rely on the input of nursing Heather Watson, and an expert team that helps guide
voices to improve and advance the delivery of patient nurses in formulating their questions in ways that
care and the professional development of our staff. can be measured, and gathering and evaluating the 39
The holistic approach nurses take to their work gives evidence. The CNI team also provides nurses with
them unique insights into the needs of those they care the guidance and resources to help them amplify
for as well as their colleagues and teammates. their work and share their outcomes more widely.
Those outcomes can have a direct impact on the way
Guided by the enthusiastic and expert leadership care is provided and the strategies we use at the unit,
provided by Leighann Sidone, JHHS associate chief department or even health system level. Our staff
nursing executive and chief nursing officer (CNO) for nurses demonstrate their clinical leadership through
Suburban Hospital, our health system CNO Council this disseminated work.
partners with nurses across JHHS and provides
forums for them to participate in the design and The impact of nurses’ voices is also invaluable in
implementation of quality and practice improvements, creating and sustaining a healthy work environment.
and professional development as part of a shared We recently completed our 2023 Interprofessional
governance professional practice model. This model Well-Being Survey, which looks at professional
is replicated at each affiliate hospital where unit- or fulfillment, burnout, work efficiency, organizational
department-based professional practice councils leadership, peer support, and work-life balance. The
invite nurses to help shape and advance nursing thoughts and opinions that nurses and other clinicians
practice in their care area, including quality and safety, shared will help inform health system priorities and
clinical documentation and education. As members of investments to create efficiencies in practice, build a
interdisciplinary committees and workgroups, nurses culture of wellness, and support well-being efforts.
also influence change across our organizations by
sharing their ideas and strategies to improve other Nursing’s contributions to innovation and
services and specialties that interact with nursing and improvement across JHHS are countless and deeply MAGAZINE.NURSING.JHU.EDU
impact patient care. valued. As health care delivery is being reimagined, we
are grateful that Johns Hopkins nurses are leading the
At Johns Hopkins, our nurses are encouraged to way during this transformative time. ◼
ask questions and look for the evidence to support