Dear Cooper Team:
To our team members who will celebrate the Hindu festival this Sunday, we wish you a happy Diwali. We hope you are having a safe and productive week. Thank you for all you are doing to keep our patients, community, and each other safe.
What You Should Know This Week:
- Cooper launched the Center for Advanced Practice – the first in New Jersey to promote and support the role of advanced practice providers in health care. Read more about the Center for Advanced Practice, click here. To read the press release, click here.
- Tomorrow is Helping Families Thrive: Making Mental Health Care Work in Primary Care Practice. Join the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral health tomorrow, November 9, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for the second installment in its quarterly speaker series. Learn how to incorporate pediatric mental health assessment and skillful, prompt, and compassionate mental health treatment into your practice. For more information or to register, click here.
- There are nurses. And then there are Cooper nurses. Learn what sets Cooper nurses apart in our new Nurse Spotlight series. This week, we introduce Samantha Malsbury, RN. To find out why Samantha became a nurse, what she loves about being a Cooper nurse, and more, click here. Visit Weekly Rounds, Pulse+, and Cooper’s social media accounts for more Nurse Spotlights.
- Paid time off (PTO) sell-back opportunity. If you wish to participate, you must submit your requested PTO sell-back hours through the iCooper Team Member Space between November 13 and November 27, 2023. Click here for more information.
- Team Member Resource Groups. Three new TRGs were installed last week as part of Cooper’s DEI program – the groups include the Black, Latino, and Multicultural TRGs. To see pictures from the event, click here.
- Please join us as we recognize the national weeks for several groups of Cooper team members:
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- National Radiologic Technology Week. Thank you to Cooper’s dedicated radiologic technologists for their invaluable contributions to patient care. To read more about our radiologic technologists, click here.
- National Patient Transport Week. Cooper’s transport team plays a vital role in the patient experience and we thank them for their commitment to our patients.
- National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week. Thank you to our medical services professionals for the important work they do in ensuring Cooper physicians and providers credentials and licenses are up-to-date and accurate.
Reminders:
- Gratitude is the attitude. There are many benefits of practicing gratitude, both mental and physical. This holiday season, we are asking all Cooper team members to pause and reflect on positive things in their lives and share them with the greater Cooper community on our virtual gratitude wall. The wall is always active here.
- Hospital Assault Response and Prevention (HARP) training program update. The training includes assault safety best practices, de-escalation strategies, protect-exit skills, and management of volatile patients and visitors. HARP sessions are offered in person every Thursday. Register through the Cooper Learning Network (CLN). For more information, click here.
- Cooper Climbers Club challenge update. The next challenge has begun and ends on December 1, 2023. Sign up here. Get others to join you and don’t forget to submit your photos on Pulse+ with the header “Cooper Climbers Club.” To read more, click here.
- Veterans Day Celebration. All Cooper team members with current or prior military service are encouraged to attend this year’s event on Monday, November 13, 2023, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the hospital conference center. To RSVP, click here.
- Grow your career with Cooper. Join us for a series of in-person and virtual job fairs for Cooper team members. Explore your career advancement options at the region’s leading academic health system. Click here for more information.
- A Mindfulness Mystery. Each month will feature a new mystery mindfulness speaker. Guess the Cooper team member speaker and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a prize. To listen to the first speaker, click here. For more information, click here.
- Food Truck Fridays are back. Every Friday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sheridan Pavilion and MD Anderson at Cooper on our Camden campus. Check the food truck schedule here or on the home page of the Pulse, under Team Member Resources.
Other News:
- Click here to read the most recent Daily Dose, “Tai Chi for Memory.” As always, you can view the Daily Dose archives here.
- We love positive patient feedback. Kudos to all who are making The Cooper Experience a reality, including Taylor, Shirley, Dr. Kim, Carolann, and Fouzia. Click here to read more.
- Send your most-loved movie quotes to MessageFromCoCEOs@CooperHealth.edu and check back each Wednesday to see if your quote was picked.
- Movie Quote: “If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you better get what you appreciate.”
Please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu with any questions or comments.