Christiana Care celebrates 2015 Nursing Excellence Awards

The Excellence in Nursing Awards, organized by Christiana Care’s Professional Nurse Council, drew standing-room-only attendance to celebrate exceptional nurses during National Nurses Week. The ceremony, at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center on May 7, also acknowledged nurses newly promoted to RN III and RN IV, marking professional advancement on Nursing’s clinical ladder.

The celebration included recognition of the first DAISY Award-winning nurses, nominated by patients and colleagues for being expert, caring partners in health as part of the national DAISY program introduced at Christiana Care in September 2014. Allison Steuber, MSN, RN, CEN, chair of the Professional Nurse Council, shared comments from Kathleen Capozzoli, who nominated a DAISY Award winner and lauded inaugural winner Josie Robinson for supporting her “through the most difficult time of my life.” Said Steuber: “This is why we are all here. This is what inspires us as nurses.”

2015 Dot Fowler Award

Patricia Briggs – Cardiovascular Critical Care (winner)

Barbara Dena – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (nominee)

Janet Machulski – 4E (nominee)

Partners of Nursing Award

Clinical Pharmacists

Emergency

Christine Barbour – Middletown Emergency Department

Sarah Cross – Wilmington Emergency Department

Oksana Iwaskiw – Direct Care Expert, Transport

Jennifer Sikoutris – Direct Care Expert, Wilmington Emergency Department

Heart & Vascular

Amy Devece – Direct Care Expert, Heart & Vascular Interventional Services Prep and Hold

Judy Flitcraft – Heart & Vascular Interventional Services Prep and Hold

Mary Zita Guest – Heart and Vascular

Virginia Hoinowski – Catheterization Lab

Aimee Lucente – Cardiology Short Stay Unit

Alison Purner – Interventional Radiology

Tyralynn Wallace – Electrophysiology

Surgical

Marlo Bowser – 4D

Heather Bracken – Direct Care Expert, 4D

Lyrae Graham – 4C

Dorothy Hilton – 7E

Rita Kimani – Direct Care Expert – 4C

Steven Larrimore – Direct Care Expert, Surgical Critical Care Complex

Amanda Lennon – Direct Care Expert, Transitional Care Unit

George Potts – Direct Care Expert, 2C

Elsa Szczerba – Surgical Critical Care Complex

Kim Wanner – Surgical Critical Care Complex

Cardiac

Holly Beachard – 3D

Shannon Coble – Direct Care Expert, 5E

Greta Endres Brown – Cardiovascular Critical Care

Leanne Erickson – 4E

Jessica Hays – Cardiovascular Critical Care

Lindsey Hoosty – Medical Intensive Care Unit

Michele Jonkiert – E-Care

Michael Labarca – Direct Care Expert, MICU

Laura Mayover – Direct Care Expert, Cardiovascular Critical Care

Colleen McGhie – Direct Care Expert, 4E

Jamie McLaughlin – 5E

Becki Mears – Neuro Critical Care Unit

Jennifer Papi – Direct Care Expert, 3D

Marla Sanabria – Direct Care Expert, Cardiovascular Critical Care

Kristin Stevens – 4E

Medical

Samantha Baker – 6B

Theresa Boylan – 5C

Christine Brown – Direct Care Expert, 6B

Sally Burcham – Express Admission Unit

Kelli Cloud – 5D

Elaine Farr – 6C

Kim Frey – Direct Care Expert, Vascular Access

Karen Hollinsworth – Vascular Access

Noelle Johnson – Direct Care Expert, Hemodialysis

Paul Koscinski – 5A

Michelle Love – 5B

June Ndibo – 6A

Dawn Rosche – 6B

Colleen Schwandt – Direct Care Expert, 6E

Kendall Scott – Direct Care Expert, Express Admission Unit

Elizabeth Street – Direct Care Expert, 5A

Jamie Weisenborn – Direct Care Expert, Radiology

Perioperative

Dana Alexander – Christiana Hospital Surgicenter

Frances Archibald – Christiana Hospital Surgical Admissions

Jennifer Beers – Perioperative Evaluation and Preparation

Catherine DeMaio – Wilmington Surgicenter

Marie Gelmann – Wilmington Hospital Prep and Hold

Michelle Hall – Christiana Hospital Operating Room

Amber Keen – Wilmington Hospital Operating Room

Judith Lind-Maloney – Direct Care Expert, Christiana Hospital Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Tanya Marandola – Direct Care Expert, Wilmington Hospital Surgicenter

Heather Martin – Christiana Hospital Prep and Hold

Michael Price – Direct Care Expert, Christiana Hospital Operating Room

Jennifer Schulak – Christiana Hospital Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Victoria Sill – Wilmington Hospital Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Diana Wojinisz – Endoscopy

Abigail Wolfe – Christiana Hospital Operating Room

Theresa Zukowski – Direct Care Expert, Wilmington Hospital Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Visiting Nurse Association

Patricia Preston – Direct Care Expert, Visiting Nurse Association

Dinah Stewart – Visiting Nurse Association

Wilmington Hospital

Lisa Biordi – 6 South

Katie Heller – Direct Care Expert, 4 North

Mary Hendrickson – Joint Replacement Center

Crystal Hogate – Direct Care Expert, 6 South

Nora Jingeleski – 4 Surgical

Marguerite Keene – Wilmington Hospital Intensive Care Unit

Jeanne LeVasseur – Direct Care Expert, Joint Replacement Center

Kristin Macey – Wilmington Hospital Acute Care of the Elderly Unit

Lorie Meck – Direct Care Expert, 4 Surgical

Jeannie Parker – Psychiatric Nursing

Lea Purcell – Direct Care Expert, Wilmington Hospital Intensive Care Unit

Donna Scorziello – Psychiatric Nursing

Sharon Simeone – 4 North

Women’s & Children’s

Michele Aber – Labor & Delivery

Barbara Dean – Direct Care Expert, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Jen Farina – Labor & Delivery

Staci Ferrario – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Ruth Garibian – Direct Care Expert, Labor & Delivery

Daphne Henlon – Direct Care Expert, Labor & Delivery

Kathryn Low – Parent Educator

Kelsey Nass – 3B

Lisa Pesce – 3A

Margaret Whitworth – Obstetrics and Gynecology Outpatient

Advanced Practice

Deborah Hassler – Trauma, Nurse Practitioner

Jo Melson – Wilmington Hospital Palliative Care, Nurse Practitioner

Educator

Kathrine Crawford – Staff Development Specialist, Neuro Critical Care Unit

Kimberly Maull – Clinical Educator, Visiting Nurse Association

Leadership

Jennifer Johnson, Nurse Manager, 7E

Nicole McCarry – Assistant Nurse Manager, Wilmington Hospital Emergency Department