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PATE: September 23, 2008
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SUBJECT: Michelle Shanks-30 year service
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION: PRESENTATION to recognize Michelle Shanks, RN, Charge Nurse, on
the occasion of her 30th year of service to Contra Costa Health Services and Contra Costa
Regional Medical Center. (Lisa Massarweh, Chief Nursing Officer)
FISCAL IMPACT: None
BACKGROUND: With the complex and ever-changing health care environment, the nursing
profession has such a variety of venues to serve and Michelle has experienced most of them in
her 30-year tenure.
When Michelle started as a staff nurse at "The County Hospital," nursing looked much different.
A typical nurse's day may have started with cleaning and re-sterilizing and re-using needles,
knives and pads. Drapes were laundered and lint removed by the nursing staff. Rooms were
cleaned and inventory maintained by nurses. Patients stayed in hospitals for many weeks and
three weeks as an in-patient following a myocardial infarction (heart attack) was not uncommon.
Nurses, like Michelle, who have lived through these changes„ can testify to one fact: change is
the only variable that has been constant. The body of knowledge of medical care is growing at
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an exponential rate, technological advances, regulatory constraint, and sicker patients staying
for shorter periods of time in the hospital are all challenges nurses face.
Michelle, in her tenure at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center helped to usher the Emergency
Department into an age of technology by moving the department to an electronic environment
with Meditech's electronic documentation system. These changes have helped to lay the
groundwork for the rapid tests of,change in our Emergency Department flow that we are now
trialing and have laid a framework toward moving closer to use in automation to add a safety
check in medication administration.