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Deborah McCoy, Executive Director of the USC Nursing Institute, Keck Medicine of USC · Becker’s Healthcare - Clinical Leadership Podcast

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  Welcome everyone to the Becker Health care podcast
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  series. I am Mariah Muhammad, Ryder and moderator
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  with Becker Health care. And I'm thrilled to
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  have with me today, Deborah Mccoy, executive director
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  of the Usc Nursing Institute at Ke Medicine
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  of Usc. Deborah very nice to have on
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  the podcast today to get started with you
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  mind, please introducing yourself and telling us a
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  bit about your background?
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  Certainly,
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  thank you. It's very nice to meet you
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  today, Mariah. I really appreciate the opportunity to
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  speak with you.
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  Again, my name is Deborah Mccoy, and I've
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  been in nursing for a little over 50
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  years.
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  Working in both acute care hospitals and
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  outpatient ambulatory care settings.
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  Most of my career has been spent in
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  developing and leading clinical service lines,
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  those service lines being such things as high
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  risk ob, cardiovascular,
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  neuroscience,
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  surgical specialties, etcetera.
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  Most recently, I served as the Vice President
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  and Chief Nursing Officer for a 03:50
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  bed full service community hospital in Arcadia
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  California.
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  And this hospital has now joined Ke Medicine
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  of Usc Health system,
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  which provided the opportunity to transition to my
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  current role in the Health System as the
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  Executive Director of the Usc Nursing Institute.
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  And the the system now has 4 hospitals
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  ke hospital,
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  Norris Cancer Hospital,
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  Usc Arcadia Hospital, and Hills Community hospital.
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  Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing that,
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  and to begin with the first real question
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  I want to ask you, Deborah. What are
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  the biggest issues you're following in health in
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  this year?
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  The ones that we particularly interested in from
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  the... Of the nursing Institute perspective is nurse
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  recruitment and retention as well as the the
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  basic advancement of the practice of nursing.
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  And I would say that the number 1
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  issue that we discussed in our initial development
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  was nurse recruitment and nurse retention.
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  Got it. Got it. Thank you for,
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  sharing that information. I know for Becker, we
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  talk heavily about nurse recruiting and retention.
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  And that is something that's making a lot
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  of people nervous also and it inspires a
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  lot of conversation. Is there anything that you're
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  excited about with this new institute or anything
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  else that's making you nervous?
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  1 of the things that we were working
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  on in the very beginning as we thought
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  about developing the nursing Institute was
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  our education and development opportunities
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  and how we could lay a very strong
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  foundation for graduate
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  transition to practice.
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  Each of the hospitals has a new grad
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  residency program.
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  So we have incorporated the best practices of
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  each of the facilities and are now creating
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  what I would consider to be an exceptional
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  nurse residency program
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  to bring nurses into the facility and give
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  them the kind of confidence
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  and
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  expertise in practice that young aspiring nurses are
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  hopeful for. And I think that's 1 of
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  the things that will draw
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  nurses 2,
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  ke medicine of Usc and to nursing at
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  1 of our community hospitals or to check
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  medicine.
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  We're also looking at specialty care, including cardiovascular,
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  neuro surgical and transplant surgery.
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  So we have, care for patients in these
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  highly specialized programs.
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  So we are incorporating
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  education in the
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  expertise of caring for those patients as well.
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  And
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  I think that the varied career opportunities and
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  advancement that we have
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  and develop are developing is something that will
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  be very appealing to nurses as they're looking
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  to either enter the nursing career or perhaps
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  change careers and looking for an opportunity for
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  growth.
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  Yeah. Absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing that.
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  In deborah, before I let you go, The
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  last thing I wanted to ask you is
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  what would the most effective health leaders need
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  in order to be successful in the next
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  2 to 3 years do you think?
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  Well, we are beginning, our discussion is for
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  a nurse manager development program to support our
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  nurses who aspire to leadership positions.
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  We talk about
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  communication. We talk about confidence, courage, compassion, the
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  things that you normally read and hear about
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  when you're thinking about leadership development
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  We're also wanting to enhance our,
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  our research and education program for a nursing
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  scholarship.
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  We believe that there are many nurses in
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  the field who are looking to be able
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  to add
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  their initiative and their sense of fiery into
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  the profession and we believe that our nursing
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  research program through our research council as well
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  as our leadership development program will offer
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  those types of
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  opportunities for nurse leaders.
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  I would also say that we're looking at
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  flexibility
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  and risk taking.
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  We know that nurses really need to be
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  able to move quickly in this environment. We
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  want them to feel as though they have
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  the opportunity to experiment and to
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  create
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  innovations and practice that eventually could lead to
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  evidence based practice and publication. So we believe
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  that that is something that
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  leaders really need to consider moving forward. For
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  health delivery in the future.
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  Deborah, thank you so much for sharing that
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  information.
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  Is there anything
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  about the Institute that we didn't talk about
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  yet? That you wanted to share?
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  I think I'd just like to share that
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  as a young health system and in developing
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  the nursing Institute over the first year,
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  We brought together key stakeholders from each entity,
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  both academic and community
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  to participate
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  and created a vision for the early development
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  of this Institute. And like I mentioned before,
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  there are 4 hospitals in addition to our
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  Usc Care ambulatory division, which is
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  comprised of 100 sites across Southern California.
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  And
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  we
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  are now operating the Institute under the guidance
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  of the 6 chief nursing officers who actually
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  lead those
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  institute... Those organizations to create a Nursing Institute.
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  And it is such an, an amazing collaborative
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  opportunity
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  I think it's a model of that other
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  organizations could use and it is working beautifully
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  for this
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  organization. We're pulling the best practices from each
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  entity and putting them together to create a
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  system wide
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  enterprise approach to nursing development and clinical excellence.
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  Amazing. Thank you so much for those final
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  thoughts, Deborah. This has definitely been a informative
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  discussion. So and again, I wanna thank you
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  so much for coming on Becker health care
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  and I look forward to connecting with you
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  soon.