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When Heather Forbes, RN, BSN, CEN, CSHA, HACP, accreditation and regulatory coordinator at Southern Maine Medical Center (SMMC) in Biddeford, first took over the role of survey coordinator, she looked at the entire process of accreditation and asked one simple but encompassing question: “If I were a new nurse, what would I want to know?”

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