Hospital employees recognized for efforts
By Phyllis Moore
Published in News on December 15, 2014 1:46 PM
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Nurse Excellence awards were recently presented to 10 recipients at Wayne Memorial Hospital. From left are Alice Summerlin, Holly Daly, Dean Barfield, Julie Smith, Dawn Branson, Eliza Delara, Corine Holmes, Diana Holland, Emily Bailey and Leslie Ricker.
Ten representatives from the nursing areas at Wayne Memorial Hospital were recently recognized with Nurse Excellence awards.
The employees were chosen from 33 nominated for the distinction by supervisors, co-workers and peers.
Final selections were made by three independent judges who scored the candidates based on integrity, honesty, accountability, character, enthusiasm, caring, compassion and competency.
The annual recognition targets outstanding nurses, nursing assistants, technicians and surgical staff at the hospital.
Wayne Memorial President and CEO Bill Paugh and the vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer, Shirley Harkey, presented this year's awards.
Nannette Newcomb, a registered nurse and manager of recruitment and retention at the hospital, was the guest speaker.
The 2014 Nurse Excellence recipients includes eight registered nurses and two nursing assistants.
* Emily Bailey, RN, is a surgical nurse who has worked at WMH for 10 years. She is a graduate of Wayne Community College and East Carolina University.
* Dawn Branson, RN, a nurse in the dialysis unit, is a graduate of WCC. She has worked at the hospital for three years.
* Holly Daly, RN, is a school health nurse at Carver Elementary School. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, she has been a nurse for 18 years, 13 of those at WMH.
* Corine Holmes, RN, is also a graduate of WCC. She has been at the hospital for 11 years and works in the post-acute care unit.
* Leslie Ricker, RN, a nurse for 30 years, 15 of those at Wayne Memorial, is employed with the hospital's WISH, Wayne Initiative for School Health, program. She is a graduate of Capital University and ECU.
* Julie Smith, RN, an oncology nurse, has been at WMH for three years. She received her degree from WCC.
* Alice Summerlin, RN, has been at WMH all of her 15 years in the profession. A nurse in the WISH program, her education was completed at WCC and N.C. State University.
* Diana Holland, RN, has worked at WMH all seven years of her career. A graduate of WCC, she is assigned to the hospital's sixth floor.
* Dean Barfield has been a nurse assistant for 30 years, 25 of those at WMH. He earned his NA1 certification at Cherry Hospital and his NA2 certification at WCC.
* Eliza Delara, a nurse assistant who works with patients on the sixth floor, has spent seven of her eight years in the profession at WMH. She earned her certification at WCC.
Each recipient received an acrylic, flame-shaped award -- a symbolic tribute to Florence Nightingale, who was known for carrying an oil lamp at night as she made rounds tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.
They were also presented with a copy of the book "Caring Science, Mindful Practice," co-authored by one of this year's judges, Dr. Kathleen Sitzman, a professor at the ECU School of Nursing.