Nursing Excellence Awards 2016
Eisenhower Medical Center’s Nursing Excellence Awards formally recognize registered nurses for their efforts to promote and advance the nursing profession, for displaying caring and commitment to patients, families and co-workers, and for demonstrating leadership in the nursing profession.
Left to right: Christy MacKewen, Rosemary Flaherty, Sally Wright, Susan Veldey, Barbara Fulmer, Anne Dyer and Brian Esser.
Congratulations and thank you to every nominee and to each award recipient. The winners for 2016 in each category are:
Nursing Excellence: Inpatient
Anne Dyer, RN
4 East
Nursing Excellence: Outpatient/Procedural
Susan Veldey, BSN, RN
Emergency Department
Nursing Excellence: Clinic Division
Sally Wright, RN
Clinic Division
Advanced Practice Nurse
Barbara Fulmer, MSN, RN, GNP-BC, CWOCN, CWCN-AP
Inpatient Wound Care
Clinical Nurse Change Agent/Thought Leader
Christy MacKewen, RN
Acute Inpatient Rehab
Innovation/Creativity in Nursing Practice
Brian Esser, BSN, RN, SCRN
3 North
Exemplary Practice as Teacher/Patient Advocate
Rosemary Flaherty, BSN, RN, CBEC
Breast Center
Nurse of the Year
Susan Veldey, BSN, RN
Emergency Department
The 2016 Eisenhower Medical Center Nurse of the Year winner Susan Veldey was selected by her peers from among the three Nursing Excellence Award winners (Inpatient, Outpatient / Procedural, and Clinic Division).
It was an honor to recognize award recipients, as well as nominees, at the 2016 Awards Ceremony held the evening of April 6 in the Annenberg Center for the Health Sciences Dining Room.