 As
the Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services, Nancy has enhanced
and improved health care quality, education and professionalism in
numerousways by creating and implementing the following initiatives:
The Nursing Center for Professional Development. This Center provides
the professional nurse not only with guidance, but with a centralized
resource of learning opportunities to assist in their development and
enhancement of professional practice, as well as career goal achievement.
- The Introduction of the Nursing Report Card.
This system-wide initiative provides a sophisticated
and consistent measurement of quality across
the health care system. The report card measures
patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes and human
resources and provides benchmarks to evaluate
and improve nursing.
- A Peer Review process unique to Barnabas
Health enables review of nursing
care by nursing peers to evaluate whether the
expectations for the proper standard of care
have been met.
Prior to her appointment to Barnabas Health Senior
Management Team in 1996, Ms. Holecek served as Vice President for Patient
Care Services at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, where she participated
as a member of that organization's Senior Management Team and played
a key role in the development of case management, quality improvement
and patient satisfaction initiatives. Ms. Holecek developed and oversaw
implementation of a comprehensive nursing peer review process, created
a formal competency assessment program, and established benchmarks against
which trends in key indicators of patient care performance could be
tracked over time and across settings. She has experience in reengineering
and work redesign as Project Coordinator for same in 1990 and 1991.
Ms. Holecek began her career at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in 1982
as a Registered Nurse in Critical Care. In the years leading to her
appointment as Vice-President, she had several patient care management
positions with increasing responsibility.
Nancy has devoted her career to advancing the profession of nursing
as a whole. With style and grace she has contributed to nursing competency
throughout New Jersey by envisioning programs that instill responsibility
and leadership. Sensitive to the cultural differences among the six
hospitals and other facilities of Barnabas Health she has worked effectively to balance the needs of nurses throughout
the state. Her support at the staff level has led to her high credibility
and admiration with nurses throughout the system who know her to be
fair, especially when it comes to tough decision-making. She is a leader
who follows through until a resolution is achieved. Her innovative models
of nursing care have been recognized among her profession and serve
as an example for other health care systems. She has promoted the value
of education for nurses as it relates to patient care, patient satisfaction,
nursing recruitment and retention, and utilizes the resources available
to her to the fullest to achieve these goals.
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