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Workplace Safety Champions: Strengthening safety culture through nurse engagement

Catherine Capp1, Mel Brouillette, Nicole Burnett

  • 1At University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC, Catherine Capp is the Inpatient Nursing Director of the UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus and is the co-chair of the hospital-wide Workplace Safety Program Council. Mel Brouillette is a Clinical Nurse Education Specialist in the Center for Nursing Excellence at UNC Hospitals; she is a member of the hospital-wide Workplace Safety Steering Committee and former Chair of the Nursing Workplace Champion Council. Also at UNC Hospitals, Nicole Burnett is an Associate Director of Nursing Practice and Professional Development and a member of the Workplace Safety Champion Task Force. Nancy Havill is a Nurse Scientist at UNC Hospitals, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Nursing, and a member of the UNC Institutional Review Board. Ashley Amorello Kellish is a nurse executive, educator, and innovator who formerly served as Director at UNC, where she was a member of the Workplace Safety Champion Task Force.

Nursing
|August 24, 2026
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Keywords:
nurse engagementnursing leadershipsafety championssafety cultureviolence preventionworkplace safetyworkplace violence

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