A trio of Michigan Medication nurses have been honored Thursday night at Meadow Brook Amphitheatre throughout the 33rd annual Nightingale Awards for Nursing Excellence.
Ann Marie Ramsey, Nancy Tena and Noel Baldwin every took house awards, which includes a strong bronze statue of Florence Nightingale, checks for $1,000 and a Nightingale ceremonial pin. Congratulations to every of them!
Learn under to be taught extra about their impression on their sufferers and groups:
Ann Marie Ramsey, N.P. | Excellence in Advances Observe Nursing
Ramsey was acknowledged for demonstrating excellence in affected person care as an advance observe nurse. She is very regarded for her medical observe and experience with pediatric house ventilator sufferers. Moreover, she leads outreach teaching programs for community-based house care workers throughout the state.
Ramsey additionally volunteers at Trails Edge Camp for Ventilator Dependent Youngsters, which she has completed since 2003. As a lead medical officer, she coordinates medical assist for campers, trains and helps camp volunteers and administers on-site therapy to campers as wanted within the occasion of damage or acute sickness. Ramsey’s familiarity with the youngsters and their dad and mom performs a significant position within the camp’s success. She additionally assists with neighborhood fundraising, which permits campers to attend camp freed from cost.
As a pacesetter, Ramsey helped set up a Mott NP discussion board to debate observe points and updates. As a four-term program director for the Michigan Chapter of Nationwide Affiliation of Pediatric NPs, she deliberate a number of academic conferences and expanded choices to two-day packages with nationally acknowledged audio system. Now as president-elect, Ramsey is working with the U-M Faculty of Nursing to advance high quality digital choices. She’s additionally led initiatives that permit sufferers, historically hospital-bound for all times, to dwell at house.
Nancy Tena, M.S.N., R.N., CNS-BC, CPHON, BMTCN | Excellence in Training
Tena’s dedication to specialty certification is unparalleled. She has labored to extend the share of specialty licensed nurses on a pediatric hematology/oncology/BMT unit in 7E by making use of for, and receiving, funds for this unit certification. Moreover, she positioned a information to certification utility on the Oncology Nursing Hub web site with directions for using a selected program for cost. Her efforts led to a formidable 21% RN recertification price on 7E.
Tena acknowledged the necessity for sufferers and households to handle and take part in complete, protracted individualized care plans. Her affected person/caretaker binder was successful, permitting important content material competency and academic classes to be performed previous to discharge. It strengthened studying by presenting the proper info on the proper time.
In the course of the pandemic, she introduced a city corridor in MetalodoBrnzylGuinidine (MIBG) to show colleagues about this uncommon, creating therapy. Furthermore, she secured a grant to analyze the results of revolutionary preparatory practices, which embrace simulation, to handle the intense isolation MIBG sufferers expertise.
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Noel Baldwin, B.S.N., R.N. | Excellence in Workers Nurse Observe
A 22-year veteran, Baldwin demonstrated excellence in direct affected person care delivered in a hospital, serving in a crucial care medication unit (CCMU). He works with sufferers who are sometimes cognitively impaired or unconscious, in addition to on excessive ranges of mechanical assist. These elements make symptom administration on the finish of life complicated.
Baldwin partnered with physicians, pharmacists and respiratory therapists as a result of he acknowledged the necessity to enhance nurse evaluation and documentation of dyspnea-associated respiratory misery for noncommunicative sufferers. This partnership produced a validated respiratory misery commentary scale (RODS) with standardized opioid administration for sufferers experiencing respiratory misery on the finish of life. This resulted in a 17% discount in stress skilled by RNs, elevated symptom documentation from recording a median of 1.2 to six.5 and bolstered affected person consolation and supplied elevated household satisfaction with care.
In the course of the pandemic, Baldwin volunteered to go away his house unit to advise on the conversion of a basic care space to Michigan Medication’s Regional Infectious Containment Unit (RICU). There, he modeled methods to raised tackle and handle ache in ways in which scale back hurt and enhance operate thus optimizing high quality affected person care. His medical experience established him as a useful resource of data on medication, drips, respiratory interventions and speaking with households in excessive disaster. Finally, his efforts opened 50 ICU beds.
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Michigan Medication is proud to assist the Nightingale Awards for Nursing Excellence, performed by Oakland College’s Faculty of Nursing and its Board of Guests.
A number of Michigan Medication leaders have been in attendance together with: Chief Nurse Govt Nancy Might, D.N.P., RN-BC, NEA-BC; U-M Well being President David C. Miller, M.D., M.P.H.; Chief Nursing Officer of Ambulatory Care Julie Ishak, R.N., M.S.N., NP-C; Interim Chief Nursing Officer of C.S Mott Youngsters’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Ladies’s Hospital Kelly Baird-Cox, D.N.P., R.N., CPNP, CPEN, C.E.N., TCRN, NEA-BC, CENP; Affiliate Chief Nursing Officer of Medical Superior Observe Nursing Supervisor Andrea Kline, Ph.D., CPNP-AC/PC, PCCM, FAAN; Medical Nursing Administrators Julie Juno-LaPan, M.S., B.S.N., RN-BC, CNML; and MaryAnn Adamczyk, B.S.N., R.N.; and Medical Nurse Supervisor Sara Didoszak, B.S.N., R.N.
