{"id":40962,"date":"2018-12-06T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=40962"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T13:35:55","slug":"outstanding-b2-nurses-treated-patient-as-a-family-member-won-team-nursing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/outstanding-b2-nurses-treated-patient-as-a-family-member-won-team-nursing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding B2 nurses treated patient as a family member, won Team Nursing Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nurses on B2 at the Civic Campus, led by Clinical Manager Betty Clark (right), won the Team Nursing Award at the Nursing Recognition Celebration in November. They were nominated by Ora Cook (left) and her family.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Allan Cook became discouraged, they urged him on, high-fiving him as he managed to walk down the hallway of Unit B2 at the Civic Campus where he was a patient for seven months. Their compassion and caring shone through \u2013 not just for Allan but for all his family and friends as well. And after he passed away, they attended his wake and celebration of life, continuing to care for his family.<\/p>\n<p>All that and more is why the nurses on the B2 General Surgery unit won the Team Nursing Award at the Nursing Recognition Celebration ceremony in November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40964\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40964\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-40964 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-2-Nursing-Awards-2-Ora-Cook-left-Dr.-Jack-Kitts-cropped-448-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ora Cook (left and Dr. Jack Kitts (right)\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-2-Nursing-Awards-2-Ora-Cook-left-Dr.-Jack-Kitts-cropped-448-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-2-Nursing-Awards-2-Ora-Cook-left-Dr.-Jack-Kitts-cropped-448.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jack Kitts (right) was pleased that Ora Cook and her family nominated the nurses on B2 at the Civic Campus for the Team Nursing Award. The Cook family said the nurses treated patient Allan Cook \u201clike a father, grandfather, friend and any other member of their families.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMr. Cook, known as \u2018Cookie,\u2019 was very special to the staff on B2,\u201d said Clinical Manager Betty Clark. \u201cWinning the Team Nursing Award was particularly meaningful because of the personal connection the entire B2 team developed with Cookie and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey embraced us as much as we did them,\u201d said RN Laura Bloom. Other staff comments included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThey truly became part of our team.\u201d Andrea Barrass, Physiotherapist<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe was a very special man.\u201d Sandra Boston, RN<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThey were like family.\u201d Joe Bothamley, RN<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThis family will remain in our hearts and thoughts forever.\u201d Sue Allen, RN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThey treated him like a father, grandfather, friend and any other member of their families,\u201d wrote Allan\u2019s wife, Ora Cook, in nominating the B2 team for the award. \u201cEven when they weren\u2019t on shift, they would stop by to say \u2018Hi\u2019 and see how he was doing. That\u2019s just who they are. My husband\u2019s home for the last seven months of his life became the \u2018Happy Room\u2019 for us and the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daughter Robyn Godin and her husband, Keith Godin, said the nurses encouraged their father to get \u201cout and about, high-fiving him as he strolled by with his shades on, the cheering as he walked the hallways and said Hello to the ladies at the desk, to the best wishes for his fourth surgery, to the respect you showed visiting him in ICU. For all that, we are forever grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ora was so touched by the nursing care that she has become a volunteer on B2. \u201cTheir support, commitment and compassion continue on to help me through this loss of my dear husband of 47 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patients and families nominated 20 nursing units for the Team Nursing Award. Other major award winners were nominated by their nursing peers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40965\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40965\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-40965 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-3-Nursing-awards-3-Robin-Morash-448-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Morash\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-3-Nursing-awards-3-Robin-Morash-448-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-3-Nursing-awards-3-Robin-Morash-448.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Morash (centre) is the 2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Oncology Nurse of the Year. At the presentation ceremony, she was accompanied by Linda Irwin from Boehringer Ingelheim (left) and Colleen Campbell, CANO Recognition of Excellence Committee Member and 2017 Oncology Nurse of the Year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Newton<\/strong>, Nurse Educator in the Outpatient Oncology Program, won the Wendy Nicklin Professional Image of Nursing Award. She redesigned and updated the orientation program for five areas from start to finish \u2013 chemotherapy\/biotherapy, outpatient hematology, cancer clinics, cancer assessment program and brachytherapy. \u201cHer education sessions are fun, interactive and extremely informative,\u201d wrote her nominators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julie Graham<\/strong>, Registered Practical Nurse with 6 West Radiation Oncology and Sub-Acute Medicine, won the Sue Robblee Clinical Practice Award for her compassionate approach to patients. \u201cNo matter who the patient, she connected with them and intuitively knew how to best care for them as an individual,\u201d wrote her nominators. \u201cJulie sets the bar in terms of her overall nursing and clinical reasoning skills. Her years of working in geriatrics have honed a superior holistic approach to nursing that is truly unique. From her interactions with patients (and their families), her bedside demeanor and nursing skills, and her ability to create, review and bring suggestions to individual care plans, she shines and personifies what a phenomenal nurse is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Module B oncology nurses<\/strong> in the Cancer Centre, led by Clinical Manager Kate Duke, won the Dr. Ginette Lemire-Rodger Nursing Quality Improvement Award for a project that set up a new nursing triage workflow process. The process, supported by the Quality team, successfully frees nurses to work more to the scope of their practice, while volunteers help patients check in, complete their symptom assessments, and find their rooms. \u201cPhysicians report anecdotally that there is no negative impact to care, and nurses report more positive experiences in clinic, increased scope and autonomy of practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oncology RN <strong>Andrea Keller-Robinson<\/strong> won the Annual Nursing Education Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership and tireless efforts to improve the chemotherapy treatment unit. She is keen to learn and share new information, furthered her own education, created an orientation and mentoring program for newly hired nurses, and led a helpful workshop to introduce and familiarize the nurses on our unit to these programs. \u201cAndrea\u2019s commitment to lifelong learning and compassionate care make her an admirable nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony also honoured nursing research awards and various professional accomplishments, including advanced education and publications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-6 col-md-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-40966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4a-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Newton-CANO-enhance7YLAGFV0-448.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Newton\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4a-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Newton-CANO-enhance7YLAGFV0-448.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4a-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Newton-CANO-enhance7YLAGFV0-448-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-6 col-md-6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone wp-image-40967 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4b-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Smylie-CANO-enhanceAEBDGDCQ-448.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Smylie\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4b-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Smylie-CANO-enhanceAEBDGDCQ-448.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/PHOTO-4b-Nursing-Awards-4-Jennifer-Smylie-CANO-enhanceAEBDGDCQ-448-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jennifer Newton (above, centre) won the Pfizer Award of Excellence in Nursing Education from the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology, while Jennifer Smylie (below, centre) won the Pfizer Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three of our nurses \u2013 who all inspired their fellow nurses \u2013 were honoured by the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology (CANO).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Robin Morash<\/strong> was named the 2018 Oncology Nurse of the Year for her work in direct patient care and transformation of regional cancer centre programs, including developing a prostate cancer assessment centre. Until her retirement earlier this year, she worked as an Advanced Practice Nurse in the regional cancer program, providing education and support to patients with bladder cancer. She led several programs in recent years, particularly the Wellness Beyond Cancer program and the Smoking Cessation program. Her work, and her volunteer work, has improved outcomes for cancer patients. \u201cHer passion for assisting others is evident in everything that she does, which inspires those around her to be better,\u201d wrote her nominators.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Newton<\/strong>, Nurse Educator in the Cancer Program, won the Pfizer Award of Excellence in Nursing Education. She redesigned five areas of oncology nursing orientation to make education more comprehensive, focused, safe and effective. She uses interactive strategies that are engaging and informative and she embraces many learning styles. Her nominators said her contagious zest for knowledge inspires her colleagues, who feel like they have won the lottery!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Smylie<\/strong>, who recently retired from The Ottawa Hospital, won the Pfizer Award of Excellence in Nursing Leadership. \u201cShe is one of those unique leaders who is able to inspire nurses to improve their practice, work to their full scope, and constantly endeavor to improve the experience of their patients and families,\u201d wrote her nominators. She has implemented central intake clinics and nurse triage, and has reduced diagnostic wait times. Among her leadership accomplishments is achieving consensus with 41 oncology surgeons and several general practitioners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their compassion and caring shone through \u2013 not just for Allan Cook but for all his family and friends as well. And after he passed away, they attended his wake and celebration of life, continuing to care for his family. All that and more is why the nurses on B2 won the Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":40963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[167,480,381,404],"class_list":["post-40962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-awards","tag-compassion","tag-patient-experience","tag-working-together"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}