Nurses are the Heart and Soul of Your Care Team
At AdventHealth Celebration, our award-winning nurses go above and beyond the call of duty. We know that nurses are the foundation of the care team and can leave a lasting impression on the experience of our patients and their families.
Through our Magnet Recognition®, professional development and innovative programs, our nurses are supported and empowered to provide the highest quality health care. Inspired by our mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ, our nurses are committed to providing compassionate care to our patients and striving to be leaders in nursing.
A Letter From Our Chief Nursing Officer
At AdventHealth Celebration, patients and families place their trust in nurses who are deeply motivated by our mission and committed to delivering the highest quality whole-person care across every setting—including the Emergency Department, inpatient areas, specialized services, the Transition Clinic, ancillary services, and all facets of a patient’s continuum—ensuring seamless support throughout every stage of care.”. Our skilled nurses serve the community with clinical expertise, compassion, and purpose, partnering with patients and families to promote healing, recovery, and optimal well-being. As Celebration nurses, we integrate advanced technologies with evidence-based practice and professional excellence to provide leading-edge care. Our destination services offer the most current treatment options and comprehensive rehabilitation, reflecting our promise to deliver exceptional outcomes. United by a calling to Extend the Healing Ministry of Christ, our Magnet nurses exemplify excellence in professional practice, innovation, and person-centered care, ensuring our community receives the highest quality care from highly skilled nursing professionals.
As Chief Nursing Officer, I am deeply honored to lead and support our extraordinary, Magnet-recognized nurses—true champions of compassionate, whole-person care. Earning Magnet recognition in 2018 was a testament to our unwavering commitment to excellence, and our ongoing journey toward redesignation in 2027 reflects our relentless pursuit of the highest standards in nursing. Magnet, the pinnacle of national recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), is more than an award—it is a symbol of our dedication to fostering a culture where every nurse, from those just beginning their calling to the most seasoned experts, is empowered to thrive. Through this program, we nurture an environment of continuous growth, collaboration, and purpose, ensuring that every nurse is equipped to make a profound difference in the lives of our patients, families, and community. We are also proud of other recognitions including Baby Friendly, Leap Frog Grade A, and Becker’s Top Places to work in Healthcare (2023), and Best Hospitals US News (2025-2026) AHA Gold Plus Get with the Guidelines, Certified Comprehensive Stroke Program, Advanced Certification Spine Surgery, Certified Knee and Hip Replacement, National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers and Bariatric Comprehensive Center under MBSAQIP.
At the core of our organization, our nurses collaborate seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams, support one another, and—above all—stand as steadfast advocates for our patients and families; they are the heart and voice of our organization. Through shared governance, every nurse, especially those on the front lines, is empowered to shape practice, influence decisions, and drive innovation at the bedside and beyond. Their unwavering commitment to professional development, evidence-based practice, research, compassion, and teamwork forms the bedrock of our culture of excellence. By elevating the voice of nursing, we ensure that consistent practice and continuous improvement are guided by those who know our patients best. It is my privilege to serve alongside this extraordinary team, whose dedication and leadership inspire me daily. I invite you to discover more about this remarkable group and the exceptional, compassionate care they provide to our community and beyond, as we strive together to Extend the Healing Ministry of Christ to all.
Growing Through Professional Development
- Preceptor Program
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Our preceptors are an integral component of the success of our training and orientation programs. Our preceptors are clinicians living the AdventHealth mission, vision and values and who model excellence. They are chosen for their dedication to patient care and their desire to improve patient outcomes.
To prepare these team members for precepting, we offer a preceptor program every month.
This class features knowledge checks, case scenarios and role-playing in areas such as:
- Clinical experience
- Critical thinking development
- Preceptor basics
- Feedback and communication
- Evaluation tools
- Adult learning concepts
Our preceptor development classes provide the tools to grow into efficient, effective, competent preceptors who can develop the next generation of nurses.
- Leadership Development
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Leadership development is integral to our success in clinical excellence and service to our patients and community. Annually, the education team conducts an education needs assessment, including the “voice of our leaders” and an evaluation of the state of leadership across health care.
This information is built into a plan to grow leaders at all levels, beginning with the charge and supervisory team members, then expanding to assistant nurse managers, managers and directors. The educational programs provide a collaborative, interactive learning experience to support the organization’s leadership values of communication, critical thinking, process improvement, conflict and the art and science of accountability to lead self, lead others and lead results.
- Mentoring Programs
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Our mentoring programs include both a leadership and a clinical focus. Both programs are supported by team members who have demonstrated expertise and provide a competency-focused, collegial approach to support reflection and growth.
The programs last six months to support gradual and lasting development.
The leadership mentoring program incorporates key areas like communication, emotional intelligence, team building, change management and results to create self-reflective leaders, lasting relationships, and support personal and professional growth and retention.
The clinical mentoring program offers a one-to-one relationship for graduate nurses to encourage, guide and coach new nurses' professional growth. The goals are retention, a successful transition of the graduate nurse to the work environment and a community of support resulting in a welcoming culture in the clinical units.
- Professional Excellence Program (PEP)
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We are committed to ensuring our nursing staff feels confident, motivated and valued.
Our professional excellence program supports the professional growth of our nurses in the following areas:
- Leadership development
- Professional growth
- Clinical achievements and outcomes
- Education and specialization
- Evidence-based nursing practice and research
- Exemplary self-care
When nurses feel empowered and are supported in their professional growth, they have greater job satisfaction, resulting in improved patient outcomes.
At AdventHealth Celebration, we strive to recognize our nurses in their practice to provide the highest quality patient care.
Our Professional Practice Model
A Professional Practice Model (PPM) is a visual representation that symbolizes the beliefs, values, theories, and systems for nursing practice. It describes how registered nurses practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide the highest-quality care for those served by the organization. Utilization of a professional practice model guides nursing practice and fosters professional identity, encouraging alignment with the organization’s Mission and Vision. When a model guides professional nursing practice, nurses can articulate the impact of nursing care on improving patient and family outcomes as well as a healthy work environment. With leadership endorsement and support, the PPM’s theoretical framework becomes the lens through which nurses see themselves.
Most PPMs incorporate five subsystems that help direct the delivery of care, including:
• A care delivery model
• Management or governance
• Professional recognition
• Professional relationships
• Professional values
The AdventHealth Nursing Professional Practice Model
In 2022, a group of AdventHealth nurses and nurse leaders from across our system gathered to create the AdventHealth professional practice model (PPM), a framework that aligns structure, processes, mission, vision and service standards to our nursing practice. The visual guides the philosophy, culture and decision-making of AdventHealth nurses and communicates how work at the unit level drives quality, safety and evidence-based practices, leading to excellence in care delivery and optimal outcomes.
Philosophy — Whole-Person Care
The heart-shaped model represents our commitment to care for every patient as if they were our own loved ones. At the center, we are guided by our vision of whole-person care and our mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Patient and Family-Centered Care is our care delivery system and establishes the framework of how nurses provide care to our patients and families. It is at the forefront of all nursing practice decisions at our organization. AdventHealth nurses advocate for patients and families across the care continuum by ensuring their voice is heard.
Service Standards
AdventHealth nurses express our mission through our service standards — Keep Me Safe, Love Me, Make It Easy and Own It — as we connect to each other and our patients. We provide compassionate whole-person care by treating patients and families in all aspects — body, mind and spirit.
We are Honored to Achieve Magnet Recognition®
Recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Magnet Recognition® is the highest nursing honor an organization can receive.
Our journey began with our first Magnet designation in 2018, followed by our second designation in 2023, and we are now proudly working toward our third designation on October 1, 2027.
Magnet-recognized organizations empower nurses and celebrate the invaluable potential of nurses to lead to meaningful health care change.
Happy nurses make healthier patients, and we remain dedicated to providing the highest quality patient care for years to come.
The Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade "A"
AdventHealth is the only all “A” rated hospital network in Central Florida, assuring that you and your family receive the safest care possible.
Empowerment Through Shared Leadership
Our Shared Leadership Council empowers our staff to define, implement and maintain current practice standards and to build the vision and campus priorities for patient care.
This program includes nursing staff from every unit who make decisions together to:
- Ensure patient safety and promote quality service
- Drive accountability to the level of frontline staff
- Provide a vehicle for shared decision making
- Engage staff in innovation and collaborative problem solving and strategy development
- Encourage discussion and resolution of clinical or professional operational issues as the voice of the frontline nurse
Leading the Way with Research and Innovation
Our nurses are not just reading about new research — they are actively conducting it, continuously improving and ensuring we can provide the best care possible.
We encourage our nursing staff to be inquisitive and provide them with the support they need to complete the research and find their voice in health care.
Some examples of nursing research that is completed or currently in progress include:
- “The Effectiveness of Self-Administered Acupressure in Improving Perceived Stress of Nurses” conducted by Deborah Laughon MSN-Ed, DBA, CCRN, CENP and Rekha Nadarajan, RN, BSN
- “The Impact of a Clinical Nurse Education Facilitator on the confidence and competence of Nurse Residents” conducted by Suzanne Davies DNP, MSN/Ed, RN, CCRN, NPD-BC
- “The Impact of an Innovative LPN-RN Care Delivery Model,” conducted by Marie L. Desir, MSN, RN, CCRN-K and Deborah Laughon MSN-Ed, DBA, CCRN, CENP
- “Hospital Nurse Coordination for Process Improvements Leads to Reductions in Chemotherapy Turn Around Times,” conducted by Hannah Hallman Quirk, MSN, RN, MSED
- “Roadshow ‘Paves the Way’ to Promote Vaginal Births,” conducted by Angela McGrath, BSN, RNC-OB, RNC-IAP, C-EFM, Patricia Furey, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CCE, Allyson Lomberk, RNC-OB, C-EFM and Amber McClure, BSN
Examples of the active role of frontline staff in quality and process improvement projects:
- Healthy Work Environment 2-year National Collaborative - Cardiovascular Services
- Falls Stop Light Patient Education tool: 2025 Inpatient Nursing
- HAPI Stage Two Reduction through Two Person Skin Assessment: 2025 Inpatient Nursing
- Use of Macros to Improve Efficiency of Documentation- AdventHealth Celebration
- Most Visited Patient Process Improvement: AdventHealth Celebration
- Implementation of a Leadership Mentor Program – 2023 AdventHealth Celebration
- Increasing RN Specialty Certification Percentage – AdventHealth Celebration
- “Commit to Sit” – ED Patient Experience Improvement Project
- Unit Retention and Morale – C5SU
- Improve Hourly Visits – CDU
- Using a Healthy Work Environment Standard to Improve Patient and Nursing Outcomes – C4W
- Increased Vascular Access Staffing as a Best Practice Intervention for CLABSI Infection Prevention – VAS
- Increase Hand Hygiene Compliance – C2SU
- Hand-off Communication Across Peri-Anesthesia Pathway- 2024 Peri-Anesthesia/OR
- Meaningful Recognition- 2025 Peri-Anesthesia Departments
Recognizing Extraordinary Nurses
The DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award honors and celebrates the skilled, compassionate care nurses provide every day.
Established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes in 1999 after his death from autoimmune disease complications, they created the award to publicly thank all nurses in honor of the care and compassion shown to Patrick and his loved ones during his hospitalization.
Recognizing Extraordinary Team Members
The Iris Award was developed to recognize outstanding team members without whom the nursing team would be incomplete.
The three leaves of the iris represent faith, wisdom and valor. As a sacred flower, it was said to have healing powers, and each supporting team member brings these values to the critical role they play in excellent patient care.