Krystal Stenholt
October 2025
Krystal
Stenholt
,
BSN, RN
ICU / MS1 / Telemetry
Aurora Medical Center - Kenosha
Kenosha
,
WI
United States
She is a great listener, empathetic, and works with each person’s needs to ensure they feel cared about and have the resources that they need.
Krystal is an exceptional leader and has great visibility and presence for our teams. Krystal’s knowledge of her specialty and outstanding communication skills are displayed in the education and training she provides to the team. Krystal is responsive to her team members’ needs and is quick to offer a helping hand when needed between the units. She strives to be engaged in conferences such as NTI, National Teaching Institute, Versiti organ and tissue events, and Nurses Day at the Capitol, to bring new initiatives forward in our practice.
It is a privilege to work with her as she is a strong mentor and advocate for her teammates. She is always approachable and highly visible on the units. Though she oversees Med Surg 1 and ICU, she is always appropriately splitting her time to ensure presence. She offers guidance, empowerment, and encouragement when warranted. She strives to see her teammates engage in and meet their goals. She attends and conducts daily safety huddles to ensure improved employee and patient engagement, safety, and quality outcomes.
She is an active member of both Med Surg 1 and ICU ACC meetings, always providing guidance. She advocates for the team, speaking up when ratios are unsafe or unfair, ensuring that workloads are spread out evenly. She assists with finding staffing coverage during days when there are gaps to ensure the unit is adequately staffed.
She participated in finance planning meetings to be able to advocate for team resources needed as well. She has helped facilitate the initiation of transforming Med Surg 1 into a stepdown ICU, while ensuring the readiness and comfort level of the Med Surg 1 nurses. She has partnered with EICU to create SAT, spontaneous awakening trial, and SBT, spontaneous breathing trial, work groups, while monitoring compliance with chart requirements.
She has improved ICU and Med Surg 1 quality scores by monitoring compliance with CAUTI, CLABSI, and HAPI. She has improved patient experience initiatives and satisfaction scores by meeting each patient and their family, performing leadership rounding on them and their families as well, to address any real-time concerns. This quality is demonstrated by the celebration of two blue wave awards in the ICU department, and MS1 celebrating their first blue wave award and 15 years of being CLABSI-free.
She plays a large part in ensuring RN satisfaction in her designated units. She demonstrates this by informing patients about the DAISY Award and encouraging patients to nominate deserving nurses. She takes pride in patient compliments and shares those nurse-specific compliments with her team by entering kudos or Cipher recognition awards. She also participates in planning teammate outings to encourage a non-stressful, engaging environment. She is currently engaged in bringing forth an initiative and change in practice called compliance and withdrawal of life support.
This initiative will benefit by providing a more comfortable and dignified dying process for patients and their families. She truly enjoys caring for the team and the patients we serve. She is a great listener, empathetic, and works with each person’s needs to ensure they feel cared about and have the resources that they need. She is transparent with our failures and shares coaching with the team in a non-punitive or accusatory manner to ensure they learn from mistakes to provide better patient care in the future.
It is a privilege to work with her as she is a strong mentor and advocate for her teammates. She is always approachable and highly visible on the units. Though she oversees Med Surg 1 and ICU, she is always appropriately splitting her time to ensure presence. She offers guidance, empowerment, and encouragement when warranted. She strives to see her teammates engage in and meet their goals. She attends and conducts daily safety huddles to ensure improved employee and patient engagement, safety, and quality outcomes.
She is an active member of both Med Surg 1 and ICU ACC meetings, always providing guidance. She advocates for the team, speaking up when ratios are unsafe or unfair, ensuring that workloads are spread out evenly. She assists with finding staffing coverage during days when there are gaps to ensure the unit is adequately staffed.
She participated in finance planning meetings to be able to advocate for team resources needed as well. She has helped facilitate the initiation of transforming Med Surg 1 into a stepdown ICU, while ensuring the readiness and comfort level of the Med Surg 1 nurses. She has partnered with EICU to create SAT, spontaneous awakening trial, and SBT, spontaneous breathing trial, work groups, while monitoring compliance with chart requirements.
She has improved ICU and Med Surg 1 quality scores by monitoring compliance with CAUTI, CLABSI, and HAPI. She has improved patient experience initiatives and satisfaction scores by meeting each patient and their family, performing leadership rounding on them and their families as well, to address any real-time concerns. This quality is demonstrated by the celebration of two blue wave awards in the ICU department, and MS1 celebrating their first blue wave award and 15 years of being CLABSI-free.
She plays a large part in ensuring RN satisfaction in her designated units. She demonstrates this by informing patients about the DAISY Award and encouraging patients to nominate deserving nurses. She takes pride in patient compliments and shares those nurse-specific compliments with her team by entering kudos or Cipher recognition awards. She also participates in planning teammate outings to encourage a non-stressful, engaging environment. She is currently engaged in bringing forth an initiative and change in practice called compliance and withdrawal of life support.
This initiative will benefit by providing a more comfortable and dignified dying process for patients and their families. She truly enjoys caring for the team and the patients we serve. She is a great listener, empathetic, and works with each person’s needs to ensure they feel cared about and have the resources that they need. She is transparent with our failures and shares coaching with the team in a non-punitive or accusatory manner to ensure they learn from mistakes to provide better patient care in the future.