Excellence Awards 2022

Eisenhower Medical Center’s Nursing Excellence Awards formally recognize 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.

Congratulations and thank you to every nominee and to each award recipient. The winners for 2022 in each category are:

Nursing Excellence: Inpatient

Sheila Kato, BSN, RN
Family Birth Center, NICU

Nursing Excellence: Outpatient / Procedural

Joshua Harrigan, BSN, RN
Cardiac Cath Lab

Nursing Excellence: Clinic Division

Junko Wolff, BSN, RN, CURN
Urology Clinic

Nursing Excellence: Advanced Practice Nursing

Fnu Alfandy, DNP, RN, AGACNP-BC, ANP-BC, CNRN, SCRN
Stroke Services

Nursing Excellence: Licensed Vocational Nurse Primary Care

Jocelyn Avila-Bustos, LVN
Primary Care Rimrock

Nursing Excellence: Licensed Vocational Nurse Specialty Care

Dulce Martinez, LVN
Family Birth Center OB-ED

Nursing Excellence: Nurse Leader

Tina Wallum, MSN, RN, CCRN, NE-BC
Director Critical Care and Inpatient Dialysis

Nursing Excellence: Care Coordination

Michelle Rascon, BSN, RN
Clinical Coordinator/Educator

Exemplary Practice as a Teacher/Patient Advocate

Julie Patterson, BSN, RN, OCN,
Lucy Curci Cancer Center - Bighorn Infusion (Argyros)

Innovation/Creativity in Nursing

Athena Harrigan, RN, BSN, RN-CCV
Electrophysiology Lab

Nurse of the Year

Sheila Kato, BSN, RN,
Family Birth Center NICU

The 2022 Eisenhower Medical Center Nurse of the Year winner was selected by her peers from among the three Nursing Excellence Award winners (Inpatient, Outpatient / Procedural and Clinic Division).