Nursing Excellence unit, divisional winners
MUSC Medical Center and UMA Ambulatory Care saluted health care registered nurses at the Celebrate Nursing Excellence 2002 Awards Ceremony.
Nursing
Divisional Award winners from left are: Linda Howie, Radiation Oncology;
Debra Lambert,NNICU; Cheri McElwee, Ambulatory Services and 2002 Nurse
of the Year co-winner; Gwen Beall, 2 North; and Myrtle Edwards, Labor and
Delivery and 2002 Nurse of the Year co-winner. Not pictured is Janet Verhagen,
Burn; Lisa McAlhaney, 7E; and Connie Barbour, CCU.
Unit and division winners were evaluated by award criteria which was based on the MUSC core values of Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Adaptability. Unit winners were nominated and chosen by their peers. The Celebrate Nursing Excellence 2002 committee judged all unit nominations to determine the division winners and the tie for 2002 MUSC Nurse of the Year Winner.
On Monday, May 6, the following nurses were publicly recognized at the Celebrate Nursing Awards Ceremony for their commitment to caring and consistent excellence in nursing practice.
MUSC 2002 Nurse of the Year Co-Winner: Myrtle Edwards, Labor and Delivery
MUSC 2002 Nurse of the Year Award Co-Winner: Cheri McElwee, Ambulatory Care/University Medical Associates
Institute of Psychiatry
Division Winner—Gwen Beall, 2 North
1N—Wanda Brown; ICU—Alison
Meeks; 3N— Claudia Davis
Children’s Services
Division Winner—Debra Lambert, NNICU
7A—Stephanie Morris; 7B—Robin
Evans; 7C—Melissa LaRusso; 8D—Linda
Wagner; GCRC—Winnice B. Walker; PICU—Teresa
Watt; HOP—Wendy Meacher
Digestive Diseases, Medicine and Oncology
Division Winner—Linda Howie, Radiation
Oncology
8 West—Judith Correll Smith; 10 East—Linda
Dennis;
and 10 West—Dawn Salem
Critical Care and Emergency Services
Division Winner—Janet Verhagen, Burn
MICU—Kristin Tawes; Emergency Services—Tara
Ahlberg; CMH Emergency Services—John Boolen;
Pediatric Emergency Services—Deborah Browning;
8E— Traci Ray; 6W—Pat
Porter; and 4 Eye—Ruby Sexton
Surgery, Womens and Infants Services
Division Winner—Myrtle Edwards and co-winner
of 2002 Nurse of the Year, Labor and Delivery
Perianesthesia Unit—Linda Smith; PACU—M.
Caroline Williams; 5E Nursery—Diane Taylor;
5E— Susan Cook; and 5W—Vickie
Hoover-Daniell
Therapeutic Services
Division Winner—Lisa McAlhaney, 7E
Dialysis—Nancy Black; 7 West—Mary
Duvall; and 6East—Marianne Schumacher
Heart and Vascular Center
Divisional Winner—Connie Barbour, CCU
CTICU—Janene Roberts; and 9PCU—Beverly
Shine
Ambulatory Services
Divisional Winner—Cheri McElwee and co-winner
of 2002 Nurse of the Year.