Nursing Excellence Award

Congratulations to our very own Sue Averill, as she received an award from Nurse Week, www.nurse.com this last Friday for Volunteering and Service. 

Nurse week recognizes registered nurses who have given themselves in outstanding humanitarian or heroic ways by providing nursing care, skills and expertise in outreach to the community, either at home or abroad, to improve the lives, well-being and health care of others.

Gannett Healthcare group (who publishes Nurse.com, Nursing Spectrum, NurseWeek and others) is a nursing and healthcare communications company. Nurse.com is a great resource for nurses, as it provides local and national nursing news, job information, nursing continuing education and a large thriving nursing community.

The mission of the company is fairly simple – to enrich the professional lives of nurses and healthcare professionals, as well as celebrate their unique contributions to society.

So, each year, Nurse.com seeks nominations for Nursing Excellence Awards in six categories:

                Advancing and Leading the Profession

                Clinical Nursing, Inpatient

                Home, Community and Ambulatory Care

                Staff/Patient Management

                Education and Mentorship

                Volunteerism and Service

Nurse.com has created a great national program of recognizing extraordinary contributions nurses make to their patients, each other, and the nursing profession.

Please join in congratulating Sue in receiving this award!   So, thanks Sue! We wouldn't be here without your hard work and tremendous dedication. 

Cheers!

                 - Crew at ONAAT

Congratulations Sue Averill, Nurse Week Nursing Excellence Award Nominee!

Congratulations is in order to Sue Averill, RN!  She has been nominated by a colleague and was notified that she is a finalist in the Nurse.com/NurseWeek Nursing Excellence Awards 2012 in the category of Volunteerism & Service.  As a finalist, she has been invited to the Nursing Excellence Awards Gala which will be held at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino in Chandler, Arizona on Friday, August 10,2012!  


An excerpt from Sue's nomination form, "On her many missions, Sue learned "up close and personal" how others live and how they provide health care, however meager.  She adapted her practice to fit within the culture and resources available to her.  More than once the TV character Macgyver was an inspiration!  Teaching and sharing has been key.  Her favorite story is helping a well-meaning group of non-medical staff in Darfur transform from not knowing how to feel a pulse to a team capable of emergency blood transfusions and even minor surgeries.  Showing A-B-O blood typing on the back of a metal emesis basis was the aha! moment.
Tens of thousands of under served across the world have received medical services from One Nurse's support of the "boots on the ground" nurses who have received assistance on their journeys.  Hundreds of nurses have been directly helped and thousands have been inspired to serve locally, nationally and internationally."

Congratulations Sue! We will be rooting for you!

To read more information about Sue visit our website: http://onenurseatatime.org/about/sue-averill-rn/