Nursing Update 2007 - 2008 - Yale-New Haven Hospital

Service Excellence
Heroes for 2007
Sixteen Yale-New Haven Hospital employees
were named “I am Yale-New Haven” Service
Excellence Heroes. Five nurses were among
the first 16 employees to be honored with this
significant hospital award. They are:
Nicole Buxton, R.N.
Post-Partum (WP 11)
Earl Hapgood, R.N.
Nurse Educator, Adult and Pediatric Post-Anesthesia
Care Units
Larry Richardson, R.N.
Coordinator of Transplant Services,
Perioperative Services
Anne Summach, R.N.
Neuroscience/Acute Care Unit
Ena Williams, R.N.
Nursing Director, Perioperative Services
Recognition and Clinical
Advancement Program
In 1991, Yale-New Haven Hospital introduced
an internal clinical ladder called the Recognition
and Clinical Advancement Program (RCAP), and
more than 2,000 nurses have advanced on it.
RCAP has three rungs – Clinical Nurse II, III and
IV – and managers consistently encourage nurses
to climb the ladder through a rigorous program
in which nurses, working with a preceptor, record
their experiences with patients in a portfolio
of exemplars. Nurses who advance are recognized
at a quarterly ceremony. The following
nurses advanced to levels II and III in 2007.
Clinical Nurse III
Evelyn Afriyie
Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
Jill Azzarone
Oncology/Pediatric Respiratory Care Unit
Twila Balint
Occupational Health Services
Melissa Barre
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Janet Battaglia
Express Admissions
Michelle Bosley
Surgery Unit (7-5)
Nicole Buxton
Maternity (WP 11)
Kathy Caliendo
Surgery Unit (4-7)
Erin Cavanaugh
Labor and Birth
Christopher DeFrancesco
Adult Emergency Department
Laurie Devin
Resource Support Unit
Janina Dziurzynski
GI Procedure Clinic
Tamar Edelkind
Newborn Special Care Unit
Pam Fleming
Surgery Unit (4-7)
Elizabeth Flynn
Temple Recovery Care Center
Cindy Fusco
Surgery Unit (7-5)
Patricia Gray
Oncology/Pediatric Respiratory Care Unit
Daniel Hartmann
Adult Emergency Department
ABOVE Nurses attend the Recognition and Clinical Advancement
Program to celebrate the advancement of their colleagues
on the three-rung clinical ladder. The three nurses who
attained Level III and senior managers are shown (l-r): Chong
Jumarito-Panaguiton, R.N., CTICU; Sue Fitzsimons, senior
vice president, Patient Services; Debbie DiMarco, R.N.,
Perioperative Services; Leslie O’Connor, A.P.R.N., clinical
director, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital; Kevin Myatt,
senior vice president, Human Resources; and Alison Lucibello,
R.N., CICU.
Theresa Hyland
Labor and Birth
Katherine Mannochi
South Pavilion Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Staci McNeil
Adult Primary Care Center
Phyllis Murphy
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Eleanor Myers-Brown
South Pavilion PACU
Laetitia Nakaar
Gyn/Oncology Unit
Carol Nockunas
GI Procedure Clinic
Megan Nolan
Labor and Birth
Anne H. O’Connor
Hospital Research Unit
Danielle Orfitelli
Adult Emergency Department
Victoria Parker Orkins
Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
Jillian Orlando
Oncology/Pediatric Respiratory Care Unit
Alaire Perazella
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit
Stephanie Piscitelli
Oncology/Pediatric Respiratory Care Unit
Annalisa Porter
Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Carey Ranz
Surgery Unit (4-7)
Kelley Reddington
Labor and Birth
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