The awards recognize outstanding clinical contributions of nurses in each of the five magnet model components: transformational leadership; structural empowerment; exemplary professional practice; new knowledge, innovations and improvements; and empirical outcomes.
Here are this year’s awardees:
- Transformational Leadership: Anita Rich, DNP, RN, the heart failure coordinator and diabetes care and education specialist at Emory Johns Creek (Ga.) Hospital.
- Structural Empowerment: Katrina Brown, MSN, RN, a sexual assault nurse examiner and clinical nurse in the emergency department at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Hospital.
- Exemplary Professional Practice: Diane Scheb, MSN, RN, the advanced specialty program coordinator for the interprofessional acute pain service at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System.
- New Knowledge, Innovations and Improvements: Kayla Witthoeft, BSN, RN, a post-anesthesia and critical care nurse at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial in Seneca, S.C.
- Empirical Outcomes: Leah Rawdon, DNP, the lead pediatric nurse practitioner at Akron (Ohio) Children’s Hospital.
