About nursing at Salem Hospital
Salem Hospital Nursing delivers exceptional, high-quality, evidence-based care through a Relationship-Based Care (RBC) framework in which patients and families are the central focus. At the point of care, we honor three essential relationships — with patients and families, with colleagues, and with ourselves — fostering a culture of caring, healing, accountability, and professional excellence. With compassion and kindness, we strive to understand what matters most to each individual, actively engaging patients in all aspects of their care while improving community health and reducing healthcare disparities as proud members of the Mass General Brigham system.
Vision
Guided by the Relationship-Based Care (RBC) framework, the nurses of Salem Hospital envision delivering exceptional, high-quality, evidence-based care to the local community we serve, grounded in compassion, kindness, and equity. As part of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, we are committed to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and clinical excellence while advancing population health and reducing disparities. We strive to sustain an exceptional nursing practice environment that promotes lifelong learning, professional growth, and meaningful opportunities for career advancement.
Leadership
Kevin J. Inman, Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services/Chief Nursing Officer
Nursing practice and patient care
Shared governance
Nursing shared governance is a collaborative, staff nurse–driven decision-making model supported by interdisciplinary partners. It empowers nurses to organize, lead, and make formal decisions regarding clinical practice standards, quality improvement initiatives, professional development, and staff engagement. Through shared accountability and leadership, this structure strengthens nursing excellence and advances patient care outcomes.
Nursing Councils include:
- Relationship-Based Care (RBC) and Professional Nursing Council aims to drive a culture of excellence through the implementation of the RBC transformation care model. The council is committed to enhancing employee engagement and retention, elevating the patient experience, ensuring quality and safety standards, and optimizing financial performance.
- Quality/Safety and Clinical Practice Council aims to drive a culture of excellence through the implementation of evidence-based nursing practice and quality and safety standards set forth by professional organizations and MGB quality goals and initiatives. The council is committed to providing a safe environment for patients and staff, meeting quality metrics, and providing staff with the knowledge and skill necessary to practice to the scope of their nursing license and role.
- Nursing Peer Review Council provides a forum for our nurses to examine their practice within a patient – and – family centered model of care. It promotes exemplary practices and emphasizes learning. The Nursing Peer Review council also provides an opportunity for clinical staff nurses to review their peers’ in an objective, non-judgmental manner based on the standards of practice and Salem Hospital policies.
Awards and recognition
Commitment to quality and safety
Our Mass General Brigham goal is to lead the nation in providing the highest quality care For Every Patient. In alignment with this system goal, Salem Hospital nurses are contributing to delivering the highest quality care by engaging in strategies that improve the patient’s experience, and nursing quality outcomes, while also reducing mortality and hospital acquired infections. Using a High Reliability framework, nursing strategies are transforming care that is equitable, team-oriented, data driven, and rigorously focused on mitigating risk and continually improving care delivery.
Nursing education and professional development
The Center for Clinical and Professional Development (CCPD) is dedicated to ensuring that nurses and other members of the care team have the resources to excel in this increasingly complex and challenging health care environment. The CCPD offers orientation programs, in-service education, simulation training, continuing education courses, and professional development experiences. While most of what we do is focused on nursing, many of our programs and communications are pertinent to non-licensed clinical staff as well.
The CCPD also has cooperative relationships with local universities and colleges for staff who are interested in pursuing additional formal educational programs. The CCPD is dedicated to staff development through the promotion of evidence-based practices that foster the delivery of high-quality patient and family centered care.
The mission of the CCPD is to provide excellence in education and nursing professional development in an environment that is respectful of others, adaptive to change, and accountable for outcomes.
The mission will be accomplished through innovative programs that reflect needs and current trends of a diverse patient population of patients served. Our programs are implemented by nurse educators who are committed to the highest educational standards, promoting evidence-based nursing practice, scholarly activity which fosters high quality patient and family centered care and clinical outcomes. We are a model of a creative teaching and learning environment.
Classes offered by CCPD include the following:
- RN Skills Fair
- AVADE
- AHA ACLS
- AHA PAL
- AHA BLS
- IV insertion
- CPR & first aid
- RN stimulation
- Telemetry
- Charge RN workshop
- Preceptor workshop
The Salem Hospital Nurse Residency Program is designed to orient newly licensed nurses who graduated within 12 months of hire, to the organization and build confidence and skill through various learning modalities and guided experiences. Newly licensed nurses are enrolled in residency cohort program that lasts 12 months.
Program highlights:
- Hands on clinical skill practice
- Debrief topics in each session to provide an opportunity to share experiences in a safe environment
- Engaging conversations on professional nursing
- Novice to expert and growth mindset
- Simulation and escape room scenarios
- Shadow experiences
- Presentations from hospital leaders and subject matter experts
- From Paint to Patient, a visual thinking strategy experience in collaboration with leaders at the Peabody Essex Museum
- Clinical assessment tool to determine growth and learning opportunities
- New nurse presentations of clinical exemplars and case studies
- Tuition Reimbursement offered per Mass General Brigham policy
- Certification Support: Salem Hospital will reimburse for the cost of a successfully completed certification or recertification exam which relates to the nurse's area of practice. Any such nurses holding a current certification will be eligible to utilize up to $250.00 per calendar year for costs directly related to maintenance of such certifications.