Applicants must meet 14 standards and 95 substandards. Rosemary Luquire, St. Luke's senior vice president for patient care and chief quality officer, said her hospital hopes to receive the designation this week. If St. Luke's is chosen, it would be the first in the state. Officials hope that would make it easier to recruit nurses. We've have a culture here that supported nursing, shared leadership, shared governance.
Staff nurses are very involved as decision-makers.
We don't have a top-down approach.