by Gedi | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, Certification, Certified Nurse Day, Certified Nurses, Engagement, GEDI, Global, Leadership, Patient Experience
By Mary Alexander, MA, RN, CRNI®, CAE, FAAN Our current blog content comes from Mary Alexander, CEO of the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation and a GEDI Board Member/Secretary. Today’s healthcare environment is complex – patients are living longer, new...
by Gedi | Feb 7, 2019 | AIHA, Blog, Engagement, GEDI, Global, INLI, International, Leadership, Reality, Travel
I was bound for Murmansk, north of the Arctic Circle in December. My flight plan was Chicago to Frankfurt and Frankfurt to Moscow, where I would meet a colleague and travel together to Murmansk via local airline. The flight from Chicago was delayed 6 hours due to...
by Gedi | Apr 1, 2018 | Blog, Engagement, GEDI, Global, International, Leadership
How often are you asked to submit an abstract or a manuscript? Is it daily, weekly, monthly? And, how do you know if the request is coming from a FAKE or authentic source? It is not unusual for us, as professionals, to be “selected” to present a paper,...
by Gedi | Jan 1, 2018 | Blog, Engagement, GEDI, Global, INLI, International, Leadership, Patient Experience, Reality
We hear much about Population Health today; the literature references the topic as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals.” But, is it the group, or is it an effort to affect one person at a time to create that healthier group of people? What are...
by Gedi | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog, Engagement, GEDI, Global, Human Resources, International, Labor, Leadership, Onboarding, Patient Experience, Reality, Talent Management
During the Sigma Theta Tau International Biennial Conference in Indianapolis, three GEDI directors presented a powerful session that garnered great reviews and ongoing discussion. Thanks to Drs. Ann Marie T. Brooks and Sheila A. Ryan, and to Marianne Hess for sharing...
by Gedi | Jan 25, 2017 | AIHA, Blog, Engagement, Evolution, GEDI, Global, Human Resources, INLI, International, Leadership, Patient Experience, Reality
The following was taken from Nursing without Borders…values, wisdom and success markers and was written by Christine Newman, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program Coordinator at Henry Ford Hospital “With the fall of the iron curtain in the early 1990s, doors...
