Sals Stars of the Week: Jennifer Bell (introduced by Megan O’Brien)
It’s always a difficult choice to single someone out because there are many deserving staff. It is my great pleasure to introduce this week’s Sals Star Jennifer Bell. Jennifer started working in SBH in July 2008 in the Clinical Support Resource Team and made her home in Y2 Cardiac Specialty Care in April 2018.
Jennifer is full of energy, quick with a smile and always eager to help in this sometimes trying environment. She often has ideas and makes suggestions on how to improve the processes in Y2 that optimize patient care and experience. Recently she took the initiative to document the Na2 duties as standard work. She recognized that there could be a better flow by the Na2’s taking on some non-nursing tasks that nurses were doing to free up nurses to do other patient care.
Jennifer has also taken on the role of orienting new staff members to this Standard work.
Please join me in congratulating Jennifer as this week’s Sals Star of the Week.
This Week’s Faculty Publications
R A Manji, R C Arora Commentary: Should patients awaiting cardiac surgery who need anticoagulation be on direct oral anticoagulants or vitamin K antagonists? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 2021 May;161(5):1876-1877. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.12.102. Epub 2020 Jan 21.
R A Manji, R C Arora Commentary: Should patients awaiting cardiac surgery who need anticoagulation be on direct oral anticoagulants or vitamin K antagonists? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg . 2021 May;161(5):1876-1877. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.12.102. Epub 2020 Jan 21.
A Sharma, H Aziz, S Verma, B L Abramson, R Choi, G L Chua, K A Connelly, G Honos, G B J Mancini, S A Ramer, E Swiggum, H Teoh, S Zieroth, L A Leiter Permission to prescribe: do cardiologists need permission to prescribe diabetes medications that afford cardiovascular benefit? Curr Opin Cardiol . 2021 Jun 25. doi: 10.1097/HCO.0000000000000892. Online ahead of print.
H R Muller Moran, R C Arora Fighting against ‘cancel culture’ in cardiac surgery Eur J Cardiothorac Surg . 2021 Jun 28;ezab304. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezab304. Online ahead of print.
J A Lee, B Yanagawa, K R An, R C Arora, S Verma, J O Friedrich, Canadian Cardiovascular Surgery Meta-Analysis Working Group Frailty and pre-frailty in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 66,448 patients J Cardiothorac Surg. 2021 Jun 25;16(1):184. doi: 10.1186/s13019-021-01541-8.
I hope you are staying safe and healthy.
