Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center nurse recognized for going above and beyond for patients

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center nurse recognized for going above and beyond for patients

February 17, 2017 – Whether it’s putting in extra time or extra effort, Jessica Bishop never fails to give all she has to her patients and her team every day. Because she embodies Advocate Health Care’s core nursing values, Jessica was recognized as a winner of The Advocate Nurse Award.

Jessica and the other 15 winning nurses will be recognized by Advocate’s executive leaders in a system-wide celebration taking place in April at the health system’s Downers Grove headquarters.

“Each of these nurses live out clinical excellence, compassion, patient-centered wholistic care and other core values of The Advocate Nurse through the work they do every day,” said Susan Campbell, senior vice president and chief nursing officer, Advocate Health Care. “They are our unsung heroes – the heart and soul of Advocate Health Care.”

Jessica works on Medical-Surgical Unit 541 at Advocate Illinois Masonic, where she is known to take on extra shifts and projects. However, what her colleagues admire most about her is the compassion she has for each patient. Jessica strives to continually improve her practice by learning new evidence-based and alternative approaches to care. She has studied pet and massage therapies for oncology patients to help ease the effects of chemotherapy medication in addition to obtaining her oncology certified nurse chemotherapy/biotherapy provider card.

“Jessica is committed not only to helping her patients, but to helping her team as well,” says Donna King, Vice President of Clinical Operations and Chief Nurse Executive at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. “Her passion for nursing and dedication to learning is evident in everything she does, and we are thankful and proud to have such a remarkable person on our team.”

More than 1,000 nurses from Advocate Health Care’s hospitals, home health care, support center and medical offices were nominated for the inaugural award. Nominations were submitted by physicians and associates, including many non-nursing associates, to recognize Advocate nurses who empower, serve and thrive. These nominations were vetted and presented in blinded format to site-based review committees who scored each according to a metric that took into account each nominee’s passion for patient care, commitment to service, problem-solving abilities and leadership aptitude.

The winners are nurses from a variety of specialties across the patient care continuum who represent diversity in their backgrounds and experiences; some are veteran nurses with more than 30 years of experience while others are relatively new to Advocate or to the nursing profession yet have already made an impact on their patients and colleagues.

Advocate Health Care is the largest employer of nurses in the state of Illinois, employing nearly 11,000 professional nurses across the system’s 12 acute care facilities, more than 450 outpatient locations, home health, hospice, occupational health and corporate services. Nurses represent one-third of Advocate’s workforce. For more information, visit www.advocatenurse.com.

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About Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 397-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in the Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. The medical center has a Level I Trauma Center and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the highest designations awarded by the state of Illinois, and offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care, including cardiovascular, oncology, digestive health and neurosciences services. A recipient of numerous awards for quality and clinical excellence, Advocate Illinois Masonic has achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The medical center has also been named a Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index. Advocate Illinois Masonic is part of Advocate Health Care, the largest fully integrated health system in Illinois. For more information, visit www.advocatehealth.com/masonic.