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Winners and Runners-Up Have Been Selected for the 20th Annual Nightingale Awards for Nursing!

The 20th Annual Nightingale Awards for Nursing are only a few weeks away! Oakland University's School of Nursing and its Board of Visitors as well as over 700 nurses, doctors, hospital administrators and other healthcare workers from all over the state of Michigan will celebrate 20 years of excellence as we honor hundreds of exceptional current and past nurses who put forth so much effort, time and patience into the care of others.

This year's awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 8th at the San Marino Club in Troy. Our emcee for the event is Local 4-WDIV morning news anchor, Rhonda Walker. We invite you to support those in your profession by attending the Nightingale Awards dinner which will include a silent auction featuring a Boyne USA Ski/Golf package, Detroit Tiger's tickets, rounds of golf from local golf courses, fine jewelry, spa gift certificates and much more as well as a delicious Italian family style dinner.

Our selection committees' have chosen the winners and runners-up for the 2008 awards. Here they are:

Administration:
winner Denise Bertin-Epp, Brighton Hospital
runner-up Debra Ann Williams, Garden City Hospital.

Advanced Practice:
winner Melanie Keiffer, Providence Hospital
runner-up Linda Schrettner Miller, Huron Valley Sinai Hospital Education/Research: winner Nancy Gibbs, Detroit Receiving Hospital runner-up Sue Kokko, William Beaumont Troy Hospital

Long Term Care/Rehabilitation:
winner Pamela Thomson, Garden City Hospital
runner-up Linda Yoder, Garden City Hospital

Nursing in the Community:
winner Susan Zacharski, Pontiac School District
runner-up Ameldia Brown, Henry Ford Macomb Hospital

Distinguished Alumni:
winner Charlotte Mather, Genesys Regional Medical Center
runner-up Sheryl Cummings, Cancer & Leukemia Center

Staff Practice:
winners Melissa Mayes, Huron Valley Sinai Hospital-Charach Cancer Center and Mary Ellen Zajac, Children's Hospital
runners-up Brigid McCabe, Providence Hospital and Jodi Radtke Munson Medical Center

People's Choice:
winner Jennifer Cassady, Providence Hospital
runner-up Julia Gerdes, Henry Ford Hospital

Oakland University's School of Nursing encourages fellow nurses and health related professionals to attend this wonderful event. The Nightingale Awards were created to honor all of the hard-working and dedicated nurses from all across the state of Michigan. Whether you work in a hospital, nursing home, private practice, community or elementary school -- come support your colleagues. You do not have to be nominated or selected for an award to attend the Nightingale Awards.

Your support in attending will help raise money for scholarships for deserving future nurses as well as ensuring our nursing students have the best preparation possible with the most up-to-date equipment and technology.

The event and silent auction will begin promptly at 5:00 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:45 p.m. To order tickets or for more information, please contact Amy Holloway at (248)370-3799 or hollowa2@oakland.edu. Tickets are $75. Talk to your employer about ordering a table. We hope to see you there!

About Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale is considered to be the founder of modern nursing. Her systematic organization of knowledge about person, health and environment, as reflected in her laws of nursing, provided a distinct perspective for the discipline of nursing. She was dedicated to the care of the sick and injured and immersed herself in research to improve their lives. According to Nightingale, a nurse was any person who had the charge of the personal health of somebody whether sick or well.

She believed that nursing activities were to be based on passion, observation and experience, as well as statistical data, knowledge of cleanliness, nutrition, clean environment, and administrative skills. She took these values to the front lines in the Crimean War and subsequently established a school for the formal education of nurses at London's St. Thomas Hospital in 1860.

Nightingale's philosophy is reflective of the beliefs held by Oakland University School of Nursing - that nursing, and nurses, are integral to facilitating the health and well being among all people and their communities. For this reason, the Nightingale Awards for Nursing® were established in 1989. Nightingale nurses are caring, compassionate, and apply the education they have to problem solving and leadership. These are the characteristics that the Nightingale recipients portray, and the characteristics that we instill in our students.

Become a part of the growing community who support these outstanding nurses!

Important Reasons To Support the Nightingale Awards for Nursing

• Recognizes the contributions of professional nurses
• Enhances an organization's reputation and visibility as a strong supporter of nursing and health care
• Supports scholarships for nursing education
• Assists in obtaining cutting edge technological equipment to prepare nurses for the rapid changes in health care
• Establishes a positive image with tomorrow's nurses

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE NIGHTINGALE AWARDS AND PROMOTE NURSING EDUCATION

Advertise in the annual Nightingale Program Book

• distributed to over 700 attendees at the Nightingale Awards dinner
• distributed at recruiting sessions at schools and health care facilities

Provide In-Kind Services

• printing
• advertising design/layout
• decorations/flowers

Offer Goods and Services

• locations for continuing nursing education programs and meetings
• equipment for the learning resources lab
• prizes for the Nightingale raffle, e.g. gift certificates, food/wine baskets, etc.

Make a Tax Deductible Gift

• Endowment support
• scholarships for nursing education
• learning laboratory equipment

The annual Nightingale Awards for Nursing® are supported by hospitals, health care institutions and businesses such as these, represented by our Board of Visitors:

Please join our efforts in recognizing outstanding nurses from throughout Michigan.

NOMINATIONS / MORE INFORMATION

If you wish, you may obtain the nomination form either as a PDF or MS Word document. Just click on either link at the top of this page. For information on other support of the awards dinner, please contact Amy Holloway at the Oakland University School of Nursing, (248) 370-3799 or hollowa2@oakland.edu.