"That level of negativity happening out in the world was making its way into the hospital setting, and I wanted to figure out a way to address that." — Carolyn Booker, chief nursing officer, Northside Hospital Forsyth Carolyn Booker, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, chief nursing officer of Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming, Georgia, was seeking an antidote to the violence making its way into places she considered to be sacred and safe: schools, churches, and hospitals. Her solution: kindness. For this week's lead story, I spoke with Booker about how she developed The Kindness Initiative, which has caught on and rippled through all of Northside’s campuses. |