Ronald Hocker Celebrated With ROSE Award

Ronald Hocker, a patient care technician in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) at Wilmington Hospital, has received the ChristianaCare ROSE Award. ROSE stands for Raising Our Standard of Excellence, recognizing outstanding partners in nursing who help deliver compassionate, excellent care to patients and families.

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Hocker was nominated by a patient who was pleasantly surprised by the abundance of love he delivered while caring for her.

“His full attention on me was very caring, but more than that, it came from the real essence of love – the love of his job, the love of his patient,” his nominator wrote.

Everything he did, the nominator expressed, was done with gentleness, care and precision. Hocker frequently checked to make sure her needs were being met and that she was comfortable. He carried himself with a “special Ronald radiance” that made being his patient a blessing, the nominator wrote.

“People who carry this feeling and put it into everything they do are rare,” the nominator wrote. “He is one of God’s stars!”

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The Professional Nurse Council at ChristianaCare selects ROSE Award recipients using an anonymous process based on nominations from patients, families and ChristianaCare caregivers. Nursing partners in caregiving — behavioral health specialists, clerks, home health aides, homemakers, medical assistants, monitor technicians, office assistants, patient care technicians, perioperative care technicians, procedural area technologists and surgical technologists — are eligible.