The nursing services staff at Frankfort Regional Medical Center (FRMC) demonstrates leadership and teamwork in providing patients, families, and the community safe, evidence-based care.
The caring, compassionate nurses communicate with the healthcare team to coordinate the individualized plan of care for each patient every day. They support the hospital’s mission, vision, and values through continual professional growth.
The Magnet Champions designed a care model illustrating the character of the nursing team at FRMC in 2018. Each component of the care model represents the excellent services provided to staff and patients.
Mission, vision, and values
Nurses function within the FRMC shared governance structure. This framework allows nurses to make decisions regarding care delivery, with the belief that nursing staff closest to the point of care, when empowered, will make the best clinical decisions to optimize outcomes. These decisions embrace the FRMC mission, vision, and values.
Diversity and equality
FRMC nurses value the diversity of the patients and families they serve as well as the unique qualities each individual offers within the workplace.
Nurses lead and coordinate the activities of the Clinical Ethics Committee to ensure the wishes of patients are honored.
Team relationships
FRMC nurses value teamwork. Together, they work to make a positive difference for patients, families, staff, and the community.
FRMC nurses participate in interdisciplinary teams, including:
- The patient satisfaction team
- Cardiovascular, ED
- Cancer Care
- ICU
- Surgery Steering Committees
- Environment of Care Committee
- Performance Improvement Committee
- Sepsis Team
- Stroke Team
- Trauma Team
- Employee Safety
- Security Team
- Employee Engagement Team
- Infection Control Committee
- Tumor Board
- Medical Executive Committee
- Board of Trustees
- Medication Management Team
Professional growth
FRMC nurses value professional certification and advanced education:
- 49% of the nurses at FRMC are professionally certified per ANCC definition
- 53% of FRMC nurses have BSN, MSN, or DNP degrees
Our community
FRMC nurses serve the community through supporting organizations that serve the community and volunteering. Nurses volunteer by providing care at the free clinic in Frankfort, participating in the annual Day of Play, providing education in the public schools and elder care facilities, and staffing health screening events to name a few examples.
Prenatal education
Pregnant ladies who plan to deliver their babies at FRMC, attend prenatal classes including sibling classes, breastfeeding classes, newborn classes, and childbirth classes. Expectant parents can register using this link:
March of Dimes
The nurses working in the Center for Women’s Health coordinate raising money for the March of Dimes every spring. To raise this money, they participated in a walk-a-thon, hosted a bake sale, and sold t-shirts.
Charlie’s Challenge
In honor of a 6-year-old boy who lost his life while riding his bike, the ED nurses have partnered with his parents to host an annual safety day. This day is attended by approximately 300 community members.
Participants are offered tours of EMS and Fire Equipment, smoking cessation education, bike riding lessons, free food, and other safety information. Bikes donated by FRMC staff and physicians are raffled off to children attending the safety day.