Meet 2 HCA Nurse Executives Who Are Inspiring and Influencing The Practice of Nursing

Today’s guest Yvette Dorsey, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at HCA Healthcare Capital Division and Nancy Boykin MBA, RN, MBA, CMSRN, CENP, Chief Nursing Officer, Retreat Doctors’ Hospital talk with Randy Wilson about the next generation of nurses and health care professionals and issues that impact the African American culture.

Yvette Dorsey, DNP, RN has a compelling record of leadership in nursing academia and in acute healthcare. She has been a nurse for over 20 years and obtained BSN from Chamberlain College of Nursing. She received an MSN from American Sentinel University, specializing in Nursing Education, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice specializing in Healthcare Systems Leadership from Chamberlain College of Nursing in August 2016.

Born in Richmond, Va, but calls St. Louis, Mo home, Yvette has worked in some of nursing’s most complex and high acuity specialties. As a registered nurse, she worked 8 years in labor and delivery and she has over 8 years of experience working in critical care. Before starting a new role with the Capital Division, Yvette worked at Henrico Doctors Hospital – Forest where she started her leadership career in 2015 when she became the Perinatal Nurse Manager at HCA Commonwealth Perinatal Services; a OB/Antepartum practice with 5 locations throughout the Richmond market and worked with some of the nation’s most recognized Perinatologists. After fulfilling the role of the Perinatal Nurse Manager, Yvette became the Nurse Manager and then Director for a 21 high-risk OB/Antepartum unit at Henrico, with oversight of the Perinatal Navigator Program in the Women’s Hospital. The most recent role before transitioning to the Capital Division as Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, Yvette was the Director of Oncology, Progressive Care Neurological Unit, and the Central Decision Unit which was the unit known to administer some of the first infusions in the outpatient setting during the pandemic for the MAB infusions in efforts of helping those diagnosed with COVID. Yvette also has a passion for nursing academia where she spent over 5 years as lead instructor for medical surgical, women and newborn health, and high-fidelity simulation in a hybrid program for both licensed practical nursing students and registered nursing students.

Nancy Boykin is the Chief Nursing Officer/Chief Operating Officer at HCA Virginia’s Retreat Doctors’ Hospital. I have been a nurse for over 26 years and started my nursing career at Henrico Doctor’s Hospital. My clinical background includes Medical/Surgical, Oncology, Telemetry, and Intensive Care Unit. My leadership career started as a Nurse Manager of a NeuroVascular Intensive Care Unit and a Nursing Director for several units including the NeuroVascular Intensive Care unit, NeuroVascular step-down unit, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Cardiac Medical Intensive Care Unit, Interventional Unit, and the Progressive Care Unit. My leadership has been identified by Corporate HCA and is one of a small group of people with particularly high performance and strong leadership skills to be included in the CNO Executive Development Program for 2015 where I then transitioned to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer position at Chippenham Hospital. I later became the Associate Chief Nursing Officer at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital and for the last 7 years, I have been the Chief Nursing Officer of Retreat Doctors’ Hospital. In May 2023, I took on a duo role and assumed additional responsibility and became the Chief Operating Officer. My goal in obtaining my DNP in May 2023 is to continue to advance the nursing practice to bring evidence-based knowledge into the practice arena, improve healthcare outcomes and strengthen the leadership role in guiding complex care delivery and nursing education.