Connections: January 2025 - 8

The Darlene Saler Patient and Family Centered Care Nurse Leadership Award
A
partnership in
2024 Nursing Awards
care
Each year, the Office of Patient and Family
Centered Care, a branch of the Office of Care
Experience, gives Patient and Family Centered
Care Nursing Awards. The successful candidates-
the ones you see here-are Dartmouth Health
nurses who demonstrate:
* Unwavering commitment to partnership
with patients and families.
* Patient- and family-centered care.
* Reaching to improve care for patients.
* Advocacy for patients and families.
* Creativity in overcoming obstacles or finding
answers for patients and families.
* Value of the essential role of the family
to the health of the patient.
Left to right: Sandra Dickau and winner
Sophia Fuesler.
Left to right: Sandra Dickau; winner Michelle Hemmerling;
and her nominator, Jane Ekwonye, a nurse educator.
The Didi Sheets and Bridget Mudge Patient and Family Centered Care Pediatric Nursing Award
was presented jointly to inpatient nurses Alexandria Giesing, BSN, RN, of the DHMC Intensive Care Nursery, and Kaitlyn Jackson, RN, BSN, CPN,
of the pediatric inpatient unit, and to outpatient nurses Kim Sleeper, RN, BSN, of the pediatric surgical team, and Teressa Buker, RN, of the pediatric
outpatient specialty clinics.
Left to right: Karen Punska, OB-GYN practice
manager, who nominated the winner; winner
Megan Michaud; and Darlene Saler.
Left to right: Heidi Petrin, supervisor, mobility
technicians, who nominated the winner; winner
Natalie Bishop; and Darlene Saler.
The Sandy Dickau Patient and Family Centered Care nursing Award
was presented jointly to Michelle Hemmerling, RN, BSN, from the medical specialties unit
at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and Sophia Fuesler, BSN, RN, CWOCN, a wound
care nurse.
was presented jointly to Megan Michaud, BSN, RN, a clinical nurse supervisor at the OB-GYN
clinic in Concord, and Natalie Bishop, MSN, RN, CNL, a clinical nurse leader at Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center.
Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) team members with Alexandria Giesing (bottom row, second from
right); and Bridget Mudge (bottom row, second from left); and Deirdre Sheets (top row, far right).
Left to right: Bridget Mudge; winner Teressa Buker;
and Deirdre Sheets.
Left to right: Deirdre Sheets; winner Kaitlyn " KJ "
Jackson; and Bridget Mudge.
The pediatric surgical team, including winner Kim Sleeper (bottom row, center) and Bridget Mudge (top
row, third from left). The three people who nominated Sleeper for the award: Daniel Croitoru, MD (top
row, first from left); Duncan Morhardt, MD (top row, second from left); and Bridget Linehan (bottom row,
second from right.

Connections: January 2025

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