Welcome, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center Nurses

You Care for Our Community – We Care for You

Your Practice, Your Control

Collaborative governance is at the heart of our MMMC Nursing Professional Practice Model – this means you have the power to drive and control changes that impact your daily practice through shared decision making. When the voices of our Nurses inform our decisions, it benefits our entire work environment and, most importantly, our patients.

Ways to stay engaged across the hospital

Unit Based Practice Council
Hospital-Wide Nursing Practice Council
Evidence-Based Practice Initiatives on your Unit
Champion Committees (Falls & Safe Patient Handling, Skin, and Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystems Elders/NICHE)
Workplace Violence, Ethics and EI&D (Equity, Inclusion & Diversity) groups

Have specific ideas or immediate needs?

Connect with your leader or educator
Connect with your Unit’s Council Representative
Communicate Directly with Claire as she is rounding on the unit, or send her a direct message with this form.
Submit an anonymous question or feedback on our Ask Us form.

Safe Staffing

MedStar Montgomery’s current vacancy rate is 5%. While this number is low compared to our region, we know that we sometimes still face acute stressors in our daily practice. Through our professional practice model and collaboration, we continue to improve our nursing practice environment to streamline and reduce friction in our daily work. With our partnership with the MedStar Institute for Innovation, we continue to look at our Model of Care and opportunities to improve your work environment and well-being.

Recruitment, Retention and Recognition are key to ensuring that MedStar Montgomery remains a beacon for Nursing Excellence in our community. Here are some highlights:

Recognition

Daisy Award Honoree launched this year
Nurse of the Year Awards during Nurses Week
Certified Nurses Day
Monetary Recognition for your certification, knowledge and skills through our Clinical Advancement Program
- Clinical Nurse III: 5% hourly addition to your base pay
- Clinical Nurse IV: 11% hourly addition to your base pay
- Open Year Round and EdAssist Support for Certification

Recruitment & Retention

We know to keep skilled and compassionate associates we must pay our nurses competitively. Our pay increases are a combination of annual across-the-board increases and off-cycle market adjustments in 2021 and 2024.

Historically, MMMC Nurses have been eligible for up to a 4.5% annual increase, compared to a cap of 4% the union negotiated for MWHC Nurses

Date	MMMC	MWHC (Unionized)
2022	4%	2%
2023	4-4.5%	4%
2024	3.5% – 4.5%	4%

To find the best new nurses to join our team, we now use targeted digital campaigns on social media and other online sites and use MedStar resources for enhanced nurse recruitment through MedStar’s Talent Acquisition Department.
Implemented virtual nursing, and we are continuing to expand this throughout the hospital.
Increased the number of PRN nurses and established a robust team to manage sick calls and census-related spikes effectively.
Recalibrated several floors in response to increased census and acuity, enabling us to hire more nurses and technicians in those areas.

Your Safety: Keeping Nurses Safe at Work

Our Workplace Violence Prevention Committee has been instrumental in turning ideas into action to protect our nurses.

Immediate action by our Executive Team Members to protect you through behavioral contracts and the barring of individuals in response to unacceptable conduct.
Code Green Response
- Re-established roles and responsibilities for providers based on feedback from our Nursing Practice Council
- Developed an Order Set for providers based on available medications
Increased Security Measures for Visitors
- Evolve Metal Detection system installed, and additional security personnel added in our ED
- Wanding protocol implemented in 2023
- Green security system at the front entrance with barring list for visitors with a previous history of workplace violence (WPV); all visitors require new badge after 12 hours
- Increased attention to management of visitors and family members
Protective Services Department (PSD)
- Additional associates hired and trained
- Code Silver Training
- Code Green
Masada de-escalation and hands-on training
Potential for Harm to Others Protocol
Introduced comprehensive wellness benefits and care for caregivers. These resources, among many others, can be found here.

Truth Pledge

Facts About Union Organizing

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