Brianne has made the inpatient wound care team! Wound care was something that wasn't very 'talked about'. The nurses tried their best, but they had a day full of inpatients and then had to come over and try to see the inpatients. When Bri came to Southern, she put her heart and soul into providing education to the unit, getting the right dressings, and getting everything that we need as inpatient nurses to provide the best care for our patients. One of the biggest things that Brianne has done is create the SWAT team. A group of floor staff (RN's, LNAs, OT's, etc.)together to provide education and knowledge so that we can go share with our units! I honestly think that this has improved patient care tremendously! More staff are knowledgeable about the supplies we have and even the terminology in EPIC to chart accurately. I can't say enough about the great things that Bri has done. One of the more recent things that Bri has made so much easier is the NDNQI survey studies. Wound care used to go unit to unit, just the two or three nurses seeing every patient with a 12-hour day. The new way has the SWAT team involved! The SWAT team pairs up, and then they go to the unit where they normally work and check the patients' skin from head to toe. This is great because most time, the patients are familiar with the floor staff, and the SWAT team knows where the supplies are on their unit. Doing it this way, it takes the SWAT team, along with the WCN, just a few hours on the floor, and the survey is complete. Brianne makes it known to the floor staff that she always has her Volte on and is always available for questions, even when she is out of the building, and she responds quickly! Being an LNA, I don't have much wound experience, and Bri is so good at answering my questions, explaining everything in a way that makes sense to me and the patient. One great example of that was Ostomy care. We had a patient with a colostomy centimeters away from their surgical incision, and we had such a hard time getting the dressings to stay clean. Bri came in first thing in the am, and she took me and the RN aside, brought some 'special dressings' and showed us how to apply them and a better way to keep the incision clean. Bri then kept reaching out to make sure that the dressing was still working and that everything stayed clean, dry, and intact. Then she came down later, before she left, to make sure we had the supplies we needed and to check the dressing. Bri didn't have to do that. She could've applied the dressing herself and just forgotten about it. She went above and beyond to make us, the floor staff, feel supported, and now we have the knowledge to help the next nurse, or if we run into that situation again.