An Update Regarding Seasonal Illnesses

To help prevent the spread of seasonal respiratory illnesses, we strongly encourage all visitors to wear a mask while in ambulatory clinics or inpatient units. Surgical masks are available at hospital and clinic entrances. Patients with respiratory illnesses should also wear masks. Thank you for helping protect our patients, staff, and community.

About

Nicole has an MSN in Critical Care and is a licensed Clinical Nurse Specialist and Family Nurse Practitioner. Since 2016, Nicole has been working with teams creating as the Senior Manager of Nursing Innovation at BMC. Her teams have created award-winning projects in I-PASS bedside handoff communication, DANCE (Doctors and Nurses Communicating Effectively), a novel tool to assess illness severity of oncology patients and improving access to palliative care, and Pod-nursing to prevent patient falls. She has designed and facilitated numerous design thinking projects and is the chair of the Pain Task Force and executive sponsor for the Integrative Nursing Committee at BMC.