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Valerie Gale-Moffitt, MAOM, BSN RN
VP, Head of Quality & Safety
Executive Leader and Executive Coach committed to bringing authenticity, innovation and organizational excellence to life at work, restoring confidence and building cultures that thrive.
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About Valerie
Valerie leads the Quality & Safety practice for HXF to help hospital and health system leaders—and their teams—truly connect to their purpose to practice, while simultaneously helping teams navigate maintaining and sustaining cultures of safety that positively impact clinical excellence and patient outcomes.
Valerie is a nurse and transformational healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience leading across North Texas healthcare systems, including Baylor Scott & White, HCA, Methodist Health System and Texas Health Resources. She is widely recognized for driving clinical excellence, patient safety, and organizational transformation, with achievements ranging from zero-finding Joint Commission surveys to the pursuit the Malcolm Baldrige Award.
Her influence extends nationally, having served as The Vice President of Clinical Excellence at Nomad Health and Head of Credentialing Quality Solutions at AMN Healthcare, where she ensured safe, rapid deployment of 1000’s of clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She was also responsible for spearheading a clinician educational program that earned national recognition by the American Staffing Association for excellence and innovation in workforce training.
As an executive coach, Valerie equips leaders with knowledge, skills and tactics to elevate patient experience, operational performance, as well as employee, physician, and board member engagement. In her role, Valerie will be responsible for evaluating and identifying organizational excellence as well as gaps in performance to transform practice and improve outcomes.
Beyond her passion for healthcare, she is a published author and songwriter, wife, mom, Vivi, daughter, sister and friend. She finds tremendous joy in family, creative event planning, building community and connection wherever she goes.
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Recent Contributions
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Virtual Webinar: The Gypsy Nurse (Jan 8, 2024)
Communicating Clinical Concerns with Evidence-Based Tools to Drive Positive Outcomes
The Gypsy Nurse (TGN) Live Presents: Talking the Talk – Communicating Clinical Concerns Effectively As a travel clinician in a new environment with new colleagues, it’s important to have the tools to advocate for patient care and safety.
Join Valerie Gale, RN, BSN, MAOM, vice president of clinical excellence at Nomad Health, as she discusses the tools and tactics to keep you and your patients safe, in a conversation with Steve Curtin, CEO of Gypsy Nurse.
Evidence-based tools like SBAR, ARCC, and CUS are a “common language” used by caregivers in the healthcare industry. They were developed to ensure more clear and concise communications among clinicians, to be given and received in a constructive, consistent manner to drive action or outcomes while removing emotion to enable a full focus on the facts.
However, there are challenges and obstacles. This webinar will discuss these issues as well as present real-world methods and strategies for addressing them.
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Publication: The Daily Nurse (Sep 26, 2023)
Satisfaction Guarantees? Data Reveals What Motivates and Retains Traveling Nurses
The nursing shortage isn't a new headline — but the solution might lie in the voices of the nurses who chose to stay. As burnout and turnover push hundreds of thousands of registered nurses toward the exit, one question becomes urgent: what keeps the ones who remain?
In this piece for Daily Nurse, Valerie Gale-Moffitt draws on firsthand survey data from traveling clinicians to unpack what actually motivates nurses to not only choose travel assignments, but to stay in the profession altogether. The findings challenge some common assumptions about what nurses want — and reveal a more nuanced picture of satisfaction, flexibility, and career control than the industry often acknowledges.
With nearly 900,000 RNs projected to leave the workforce by 2027, the stakes for getting this right couldn't be higher. The data Gale-Moffitt presents offers healthcare leaders and staffing professionals a rare, ground-level view of what it takes to recruit, retain, and re-energize the nursing workforce.
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Publication: The Daily Nurse (Jul 24, 2023)
Why Nurses Need Systemic Change to Overcome Job Burnout
Nurse burnout is often treated as a personal problem — something to be managed with self-care routines and resilience tips. But what if that framing is part of the problem?
In this piece for Daily Nurse, Valerie Gale-Moffitt makes the case that burnout among nurses isn't just an individual struggle — it's a symptom of a healthcare system under serious strain. With nearly a million nurses projected to leave the profession in the coming years, and the environmental and institutional pressures on those who remain continuing to mount, she argues that wellness initiatives alone won't move the needle.
Drawing on her experience leading clinical excellence at a national healthcare staffing firm, Gale-Moffitt examines the structural forces — from staffing ratios to shift length to workplace culture — that are quietly eroding the workforce. More importantly, she outlines what meaningful, lasting change actually looks like, and who needs to be at the table to make it happen.
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Virtual Podcast: TravCon Podcast (Dec 19, 2022)
Discussion: Overcoming Difficult and Challenging Situations While On-Assignment
Every travel assignment comes with its own set of challenges — new environments, unfamiliar teams, and situations that don't always have an easy answer. But what happens when those challenges start to feel unmanageable?
In this episode of Travel Nursing & Allied Life by TravCon, Valerie Gale-Moffitt joins the conversation to talk about the realities travelers face on assignment and what it looks like to work through them. Drawing on her work in clinical coaching at Nomad Health, she shares three real-world scenarios where early intervention made all the difference — and makes a compelling case for why speaking up, sooner rather than later, is one of the most important things a traveler can do.
She also offers practical advice on something travelers often overlook: how to be proactive about references and build meaningful relationships with unit managers from day one.
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