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Finally, A Nurse Perspective! With Lily Werenczak, RN


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Join Dr. Andrew Tisser (Talk2MeDoc Podcast) with Lily Werenczak as she talks about the significance of communications in the healthcare industry. She explains the problems with team-based communication and how hierarchy within organizations and teams lead to a power gradient that hinders progress. Lily shares her experience in the matter and also touches on burnout that she noticed among her fellow nurses. They also go into detail about her new project aimed to address the gap in communication in the field.

 

By the end of the episode, you will recognize who your team is, value each member, and be more open to changes. Enjoy!

 

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About Lily Werenczak: 

 Lily is a 30-year-old wife and mother of two, thirteen-year-old Maya and two-year-old Lincoln. She has been a registered nurse for ten years. Half of that time, she worked in emergency medicine, and the other half in the inpatient psychiatric setting. Lily is currently the charge nurse of the 24-bed acute care inpatient psychiatric unit, a local community hospital in upstate New York, She’s on the Quality Committee for her organization and has had multiple opportunities to present quality projects and initiatives to the board and administration of the organization. 

Lily also began the first unit-based shared governance council for inpatient psychiatry, of which she is the current president. She is a credential trainer of the New York State Office of Mental Health, preventing and managing crisis situations curriculum that focuses on communication and relationships as a basis to both preventing crises as well as de-escalating crisis in the healthcare setting. Her newest project has been a Facebook group called collaborative inpatient psychiatry that is focused on creating a platform that allows providers of care in the inpatient psychiatric setting to communicate and share ideas beyond their own units and organizations in hopes that this will lead to better patient care and outcomes.

 

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You can find Lily Werenczak on…

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2064645190347486/

Email: [email protected]


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