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by John Leighty
September 1, 2003
The winners of this year's Nursing Excellence Awards
for Midwest/Great Lakes and Midwest/Heartland are creative,
hardworking, enthusiastic, compassionate and dedicated
to improving the quality of patient care.
Among them is a transcultural nurse who has developed
innovative ways to remove the cultural barriers to health
care for the large Arab-American community of southeastern
Michigan. Another nurse has retired from a long and
distinguished teaching career.
In the clinical setting, a veteran neonatal intensive
care nurse recalls working in "preemie nurseries"
without monitors or ventilators, and one of her primary
roles-then and now-is helping parents cope with having
a premature infant in the NICU.
In addition to the Innovation/Creativity and Clinical
Care categories, winners were named in Advancing the
Profession, Commun-ity Service, Leadership, Mentoring,
Patient Advocacy and Teaching.
In almost all cases, the nurses selected went above
the call of duty to reach out and help someone in a
time of need and to volunteer their services in a wide
range of settings, including mercy missions abroad.
The winners were selected by a panel of 12 nurses from
a field of 51 finalists. Nominations came from a 15-state
region that includes Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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