6 Northern Health Nurses To Receive Awards
Prince George, B.C.- Six nurses with Northern Health will be honoured this September by the College of Registered Nurses of B.C..
“Having our staff recognized by the CRNBC is a big honour” says Suzanne Johnston, Northern Health Vice President of Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer “It also shows the fantastic team of registered nurses working in northern B.C.”
Here are the six and the category in which each will be recognized:
Excellence in Nursing Administration
- Val Waymark – Regional Manager Community Care Facilities Licensing Public Health Protection – Prince George
Excellence in Nursing Practice
- Linda Keefe – Coordinator HIV / AIDS Prevention Program – Prince George
- Barb Schuerkamp – Head Nurse – Tumbler Ridge Health Centre
- Celia Evanson – Nurse Practitioner – Nak'azdli Health Centre
- Leslie Murphy – UHNBC Maternity Child Manager – Prince George
Rising Star
- Lisa Cox – Registered Nurse – Valemount Health Centre
The CRNBC says the awards program presents an opportunity to honour nurses “for their outstanding contributions to the profession and demonstrating excellence in relation to the CRNBC Professional Standards for Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners”.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Vancouver in September.
Comments
Wahoo, way to go. thanks for doing the thankless jobs so well.
There aren’t any nurses with boots on the floor that are actually worthy recipients? There are an awful lot of management recipients here.
Think about where they are. Barb, Celia, and Lisa have “boots on the floor” the others have already been there done that. I appreciate the recognition in our communities for emergency services, and these folks are all part of it. Congrats and thanks, folks.
I wonder how many people Northern Health employees in the “Making Up Titles” department. :)
If you haven’t been in the remote north and seen what these people do, please don’t criticise. They have an often thankless job often very remote and isolated and have to deal with emergencies with very limited resources. Besides that they do their best to teach whole communites better health care and are often the educators of new procedures.
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