Amanda Koop
May 2026
Amanda
Koop
,
MSN, RNC-OB, CBC
Corewell Health West
Grand Rapids
,
MI
United States
Amanda's commitment was not just to our new staff, but also to supporting all of our nursing staff and enhancing patient care.
In 2025, Amanda tirelessly led the Labor and Delivery Unit at Butterworth Hospital to a new level of excellence in nursing care.
It began with a massive hiring of nursing staff (around 50) to bring us to the staffing standards set by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing. She led the management team, educators, and nursing preceptors in the hiring and orientation of these new nurses, balancing skill sets and nursing experience in an effort to build a caring and competent team.
In a remarkably short time, she remained committed to giving each individual the education needed to succeed in Labor and Delivery by providing coaching and mentoring when necessary.
Amanda's commitment was not just to our new staff, but also to supporting all of our nursing staff and enhancing patient care.
As a result, Bundle Birth classes were offered this year to all of our nursing staff. This training focuses on techniques designed to promote physiological birth, aimed at reducing the overall cesarean rate and improving patient satisfaction and outcomes. Equipping our nurses with this training empowers them with the skill set necessary to effect positive change for our patient population and has facilitated conversations and collaboration on our unit, where nurses share their experiences with each other in an effort to learn from one another.
Finally, heading into 2026, Amanda has implemented a nurse mentor role for our unit. The nurse mentor acts as a resource for our abundance of novice nurses, putting the focus of our unit as a whole on collaboration and coaching to build the clinically competent nursing workforce that we all want to be a part of.
In the past year, led by Amanda, these things have collectively moved the nursing staff of Labor and Delivery to the forefront of providing trusted and respected care for the women of West Michigan.
It began with a massive hiring of nursing staff (around 50) to bring us to the staffing standards set by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing. She led the management team, educators, and nursing preceptors in the hiring and orientation of these new nurses, balancing skill sets and nursing experience in an effort to build a caring and competent team.
In a remarkably short time, she remained committed to giving each individual the education needed to succeed in Labor and Delivery by providing coaching and mentoring when necessary.
Amanda's commitment was not just to our new staff, but also to supporting all of our nursing staff and enhancing patient care.
As a result, Bundle Birth classes were offered this year to all of our nursing staff. This training focuses on techniques designed to promote physiological birth, aimed at reducing the overall cesarean rate and improving patient satisfaction and outcomes. Equipping our nurses with this training empowers them with the skill set necessary to effect positive change for our patient population and has facilitated conversations and collaboration on our unit, where nurses share their experiences with each other in an effort to learn from one another.
Finally, heading into 2026, Amanda has implemented a nurse mentor role for our unit. The nurse mentor acts as a resource for our abundance of novice nurses, putting the focus of our unit as a whole on collaboration and coaching to build the clinically competent nursing workforce that we all want to be a part of.
In the past year, led by Amanda, these things have collectively moved the nursing staff of Labor and Delivery to the forefront of providing trusted and respected care for the women of West Michigan.