Emergency Department earns 2021 Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award

The Emergency Department (ED) received the 2021 Emergency Nurses Association’s (ENA) Lantern Award for demonstrating exceptional and innovative performance in leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research. The ENA is the premier professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing and the Lantern Award showcases an emergency department’s accomplishments in incorporating evidence-based practice and innovation into emergency care.

UC Davis Health’s ED team is grounded in the tenants of high reliability and focuses on how all staff members are leaders at the point of care, who embark on initiatives that support research, operational excellence and improving clinical outcomes. UC Davis Health nurses identify gaps and outline meaningful solutions to address key areas such as improving timely care for our patients, decreasing preventable errors, developing and implementing standard work, screening to predict for violence and creating meaningful changes to optimize workload balance. 

The staff has been pivotal in assimilating best practices and implementing multiple tests of change leading to reliable outcomes for our patients.  Nurses, technicians, and all our ancillary staff have been innovative in their approach and have navigated changes with grace and global purpose to elevate the care for all patients- maintaining equity in all that they do.

“I am deeply grateful for all the work, leadership, and resilience the emergency department staff has demonstrated throughout the past few years,” said Rupy Sandhu, executive director, emergency services at UC Davis Medical Center. “They are innovators and change agents in the field of emergency medicine and are committed to supporting both the art of compassionate care and the science of clinical care to improve the health of patients and their families. They are lifelong learners and continue to grow their knowledge each day.”