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Becky Jizba, MSN, MBA, RN, NE-BC, service executive for Patient Care Administration at Methodist Hospital, has been recognized as an emerging nurse leader and awarded the 2021 Nebraska Action Coalition 40 Under 40 Award. The 40 Under 40 Award recognizes nurses who significantly or uniquely con…

Course Description This program explores the findings of the study investigating post COVID-19 recovery and how COVID-19 impacted the health of Methodist Health System health care staff members as a whole. There will be a live question-and-answer session with the presenters.   Target Audienc…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has rolled out a new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for health care. The ETS establishes new requirements to protect workers from exposure to COVID-19 in all settings, with some exceptions, where any employee provid…

“I think the ideal nurse is a huge advocate for their patients,” Megan Samland said. An advocate is what she was looking for when she arrived at Methodist Women’s Hospital in April to deliver her second daughter, Toren. When Megan gave birth to firstborn Tayah two years before at another area hospi…

Amy O’Brien is a registered nurse in the MRI department. She embodies our core values of integrity, excellence, learning, compassion, teamwork and respect in everything she does. Amy has been a Methodist employee for over two years. Her nomination for the Methodist Hospital Employee of the Month aw…

  Jennie Edmundson Foundation is excited to share new dates for the 2021 Spirit of Courage Golf Tournament and Gala. The Spirit of Courage Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. The Spirit of Courage Gala will be held on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. More inform…

A message from Steve Goeser, president and CEO of Methodist Health System   Health care is one of the most complex industries I know. Everything we do is gauged by processes – steps, if you will – to make sure our patients are carefully and appropriately cared for. It’s a system of continuous…

The Good Catch Award is designed to recognize staff members committed to patient safety. This recognition is presented monthly and goes to the department in which the good catch occurred. Nominations for the award are taken from reported variances where a near miss is caught. Those varian…

“It’s not often that an operating room nurse endures the vulnerable position of becoming a surgical patient,” wrote Angela Knigge, BSN, RN. But Knigge, an operating room (OR) nurse at Methodist Hospital, did become such a patient. Not long after, she nominated fellow OR nurse Heidi Jacob, BSN, RN, …

You may have noticed or soon will be noticing small decals featuring firefighter hats installed above some doors throughout Methodist facilities.  What do they mean? They serve several purposes, but the most important one for ALL staff is to indicate which doors are smoke barrier doors or…