Nursing Update 2007 - 2008 - Yale-New Haven Hospital

YNHH named 12
Nightingales in 2007
Each year, Yale-New Haven nominates nurses
for the Nightingale Award, an award the honors
nurses from greater New Haven area hospitals
and healthcare institutions for commitment to
excellence in their nursing practice. The Visiting
Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut,
the Hospital of St. Raphael, the Community
Foundation for Greater New Haven and
YNHH are founding sponsors of the Nightingales
program which raises awareness of the
contributions nurses make.
The 12 Yale-New Haven nurses honored as
Nightingales in 2007 were:
ABOVE Nine of the Nightingales honored in 2007 met in the Atrium for their “class” photo with Sue Fitzsimons (right). Shown are
(l-r): Gloria Wallace, Elizabeth Miller, Joan Workman, Jill Jolley, Barbara Ackerman, Deirdre Lonergan, Gerri Slowikowski, Millicent
Gershon and Earl Hapgood.
Five nurse leaders honored
At the 2007 Nurse of the Year ceremony,
five nurses were honored with four nurse
leadership awards. Shown (below) in Harkness
Hall, where the ceremony was held, are (l-r):
Surgical Intensive Care Unit nurses Zach Krom
and Rick O’Connor, who received the award for
research; Shelley Harrigan, Adult Primary Care
Center, for practice; Sue Fitzsimons, senior vice
president, Patient Services; Karen Camp,
retired nurse manager for whom the management
award is named; and Marie Devlin, R.N.,
patient service manager, SICU, who received
the Karen L. Camp Award for Management.
Unable to attend the ceremony was Ann Marie
Rausch, R.N., Surgery (6-5), who earned the
education award.
Barbara Ackerman (in memoriam)
Newborn Special Care Unit
Jeannine Bradley
Pediatric Emergency Department
Laurie Finta
Ambulatory Surgery
Millicent Gershon
Diagnostic Radiology
Earl Hapgood
Adult and Pediatric Post-Anesthesia Care Units
Jill Jolley
School-age/Adolescent Unit
Mengqing Lai
Winchester Chest Clinic
Deirdre Lonergan
Orthopedics
Elizabeth Miller
Maternal Special Care
Gerri Slowikowski
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Gloria Wallace
Acute Care for the Elderly
Joan Workman
Adult Inpatient, Yale-New Haven
Psychiatric Hospital
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