Some great things have happened at Florida Hospital since my last blog post.
1. We kicked off our employee engagement survey and already have over 62% participation in a short week and a half. Campuses have kicked off employee events with the theme, “I Make a Difference”.
2. Florida Hospital was ranked number 12 in the Orlando Sentinel's Top 100 Companies for Working Families!
3. Florida Hospital employees donated over 2,500 backpacks for underprivileged children in the annual BackPacks for Kids campaign.
4. Kevin Metzing, RN, BS, CNOR was announced as a Nursing Excellence winner from Nurse.com in the category “Advancing and Leading the Profession”. Metzing is the OR Supervisor at the Orlando campus. His write-up from Nurse.com is below.
Metzing was working in the for-profit business world when he realized he wanted more out of his professional life. He chose to become a nurse, and, in the last 18 years, has been an award-winning nurse leader at Florida Hospital. He is committed to strengthening the perioperative nursing specialty. As a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Metzing has held 21 national AORN volunteer positions. He has held many posts with the Florida Council of periOperative Registered Nurses, including vice chairman and his current position as treasurer. He has volunteered as a delegate to the Florida State Convention and was a three-year member of the Florida Nurses Association Bylaws Committee. A key issue he spearheaded was to convince legislators to pass a law ensuring that a one-to-one, nurse-to-surgical patient ratio was a state standard of care. Metzing also finds time to volunteer on medical mission trips to Mexico.
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