Nursing News Now: Unit of Distinction Submission

Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

Happy 2024! The new year is a perfect opportunity to talk about the importance of wellbeing. We are committed to the care and improvement of human life — and that includes caring for you. There are people and resources ready to support you and help you be your best. Our goal is to look at your wellness holistically. Emotional wellbeing is important but not the only component of wellbeing, which is why HCA Healthcare offers support for financial wellness, your emotional wellbeing, family wellbeing, medical care, resources for relationship building, career development and your children's education.

A few of the resources I want to call out specifically:

• You can access counseling services even if you are not enrolled in an HCA Healthcare medical plan. Counseling is available to all HCA Healthcare colleagues — plus all household members.
• Counseling sessions are counted by topic. You have access to eight free counseling sessions per year, per topic.
• Nurse Care offers additional support. Nurse Care is a free and confidential counseling service for full-time and part-time hospital-based nurses. When you call Nurse Care, you’ll speak with a master’s-level specialist trained to care for healthcare workers. If you are struggling with anxiety or the loss of a patient, are feeling overwhelmed or need help finding work/life balance, call (877) 797-8824 at any time to speak to a counselor or go to HCANurseCare.com for online resources and opportunities for education credits.

Here you can find a quick reference guide for our wellbeing resources. Please take advantage of those as they are needed.

My hope is that you feel supported professionally and personally and are proud to work at HCA Healthcare. I’m proud of the talent, skill and value you bring. I’m looking forward to another great year in 2024.

2023 Nursing strategy

Action Required: 2023 Unit of Distinction Submission

The Q4 Unit of Distinction (UoD) reporting period is now open. Unit of Distinction program closes on January 31, 2024. Submissions for Behavioral Health are due January 30.

• Review the current UoD dashboard for Q1,Q2 and Q3 data
• Manual entries: visit the UoD submission form and enter your data
• Behavioral Health (BH): patient safety – CSSRS metric, enter your data using the submission form
• Download the patient safety excel file to calculate the compliance rate

Program information, toolkits, BH patient safety excel file and instructions can be found on the Unit of Distinction site.

2024 Unit of Distinction

The Unit of Distinction program opens in Q1 2024.

• Review the new 2024 UoD toolkits for the specialty area metrics

Unit of Distinction questions?
Email: CORP.UnitofDistinction@HCAHealthcare.com

2024 Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship applications are open through Feb. 15

The application for the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship 2024-2025 school year is open now. Eligible dependents can find more information and apply here before Feb 15. The scholarship maximum award amount has increased from $5,000 to $6,000, effective for the 2024-2025 school year. Additional information, including full eligibility details, can be found on the site.

Each year of the scholarship, nurses represent the largest group of colleagues whose children are awarded scholarships! Last year, these students received 168 scholarships totaling $581,250 in awards.

Career pathway profile

Submit your 2023 self-evaluation by Jan. 31

Complete your Self-Evaluation by Jan. 31 and engage in a meaningful conversation with your Manager prior to Mar. 31. Need to access MyPath from a non-network device? Click here for a job aid.

Resources

• Access your MyPath Dashboard here.
• View performance evaluation milestone dates here.
• Visit the MyPath SharePoint Site for complete information and resources, including job aids and video tutorials.
• Click here to view the colleague training recording.
• Attend Office Hours if you need help: Every Wednesday from 12-12:30 PM CST. Click here to join.
• Questions? Please reach out to your local HR Business Partner.

Join Wellbeing Wednesdays

Wellbeing Wednesdays are a series of 15-minute monthly sessions hosted by Optum counselors and focused on a variety of topics to support your emotional wellbeing and mental health. The 2024 schedule of topics includes anxiety and self care, ADHD in the workplace, parenting challenges, difficult conversations, coping with change and more. To register or watch recordings of past sessions, go to HCAhrAnswers.com, select Benefits: HCA Rewards and select the Wellbeing Hub link.

Get Healthy with a One Pass Select Subscription

HCA Healthcare has partnered with One Pass Select to offer flexible subscriptions starting at just $10 per month for fitness memberships and food delivery services. All colleagues and their dependents (age 18 and older) can sign up – even if they are not enrolled in an HCA Healthcare medical plan.

Get started:

1. Go to OnePassSelect.com
2. Click Get Started
3. Enter your HCA 3-4 ID in the Employer Assigned ID box or register with your HealthSafe ID
4. Select your plan and enter your billing information
5. Get your One Pass Select member code on the dashboard page
6. Click How to Use Code to learn more about how to use your unique member code to access all of your services
7. You can upgrade or downgrade your subscription level at any time and cancel within 30 days

Career opportunities

New opportunities are posted regularly for internal applicants.

Internal candidates: InternalCareers.HCAhealthcare.com

Know someone who is perfect for HCA Healthcare? Ask them to go to Careers.HCAhealthcare.com and enter your name in the field for ”were referred to this job by an employee.“