Ms. Holecek oversees a nursing staff of more than 11,000 at RWJBarnabas, leading nursing initiatives, strategic planning, fiscal decisions, patient satisfaction, care coordination and quality. She has been instrumental in strengthening the system’s patient experience efforts and standardizing nursing clinical practice. She also encourages professional development among other nursing professionals on the team. She helped to institute the first systemwide Professional Nurse Practice Council, which acts as a coordinating and information-sharing forum for all individual unit-based committees to ensure strategic alignment. She also oversaw the development of transition of care nurse roles, which are designed to better support safe patient discharges. She also implemented the first academic partnership for a senior practicum program, which was recognized and presented internationally, and created the system’s first formal nursing leadership development program for new nurse leaders. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she oversaw the implementation of a comprehensive nursing peer review process.
