Yalanda Osborne Recognized with ROSE Award

Yalanda Osborne, a patient care technician on the 4W unit at Wilmington Hospital, has received the ChristianaCare ROSE Award. ROSE stands for Raising Our Standard of Excellence, recognizing outstanding partners in nursing who help deliver compassionate, excellent care to patients and families.

Osborne’s dedication to providing outstanding patient care through transformative and innovative ideas inspired her manager, Crystal Hogate, to nominate her for the award.

“Yalanda proposed a solution to the Technology Council that allows for the documentation of patients’ food intake during the night shift,” Hogate wrote. “Yalanda’s innovative idea to improve our documentation system will provide a significant impact on patient outcomes.”

Understanding the importance of food to a patient’s care plan, Osborne knew that all eating activities, even those late at night, needed to be considered. Her close work with patients continues to inspire new ways of care.

“This enhancement is crucial as it helps in monitoring patients’ nutritional status more accurately, preventing unnecessary feeding tubes, and may be shown to ultimately reduce the length of hospital stays.” said Hogate.

The Professional Nurse Council at ChristianaCare selects ROSE Award recipients using an anonymous process based on nominations from patients, families and ChristianaCare caregivers. Nursing partners in caregiving — behavioral health specialists, clerks, home health aides, homemakers, medical assistants, monitor technicians, office assistants, patient care technicians, perioperative care technicians, procedural area technologists and surgical technologists — are eligible.