Bane Named Boston Business Journal Health Care Champion
Anne Bane, MSN, RN, was named a Champion in Health Care by the Boston Business Journal for her role as a national leader in patient safety. Bane, manager of Clinical Systems Innovations for the Department of Nursing, won in the nursing category for her commitment to create safe care environments for patients and nurses.
Bane worked hand-in-hand with physician, technology and pharmacy leaders to bring the clinical nursing perspective to BWH as the hospital launched and implemented its landmark electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR). In addition, she led the bedside implementation of this transformation, making sure nursing practice and patient safety were enhanced, not over-burdened with this new technology.
“It can be very difficult to pull a team together like that when you don’t know how people like to be managed,” Matthew Quin, BSN, RN, nurse manager in the Cardiac ICU, told the Boston Business Journal. “It was a very dynamic situation and really it was the consistency of her presence that kept things on track. She always seemed to be there—talking to the nurses one-on-one, finding out what problems they were having and taking that back to the IT people.”
As other health care organizations follow BWH’s lead and begin to implement bar code technology at the bedside, Bane often presents her work to national and international audiences. She continues with training and education at BWH to ensure nurses have the resources and understanding to implement new technology and systems upgrades. She makes sure clinical staff remain part of the ongoing evaluation loop so that newly discovered workflow issues, changes in clinical practice and patient safety issues are heard and addressed in a timely fashion.
Bane is on the leadership team of the hospital’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics and Drug Safety Committees, is an advisor on Nursing’s Informatics and Clinical Innovations Committee and serves as a consultant and clinical resource to nurse managers, educators and pharmacists regarding the eMAR/Bar code scanning application.