Nursing
DAISY Award: Rochelle R
Congratulations to our newest DAISY Award Winner, Rochelle Ruff, an RN at Riverside’s Miller Rehabilitation Center in Kankakee. The DAISY Award is an honor that recognizes the exceptional, skillful, and compassionate care these nurses demonstrate for our patients and families every day.
Rochelle’s nomination noted: Mary, wife of Hospice patient, James. James gets agitated at times, and his wife informed her that singing old hymns to him will calm him down. Rochelle asked her what hymns he likes and told Mary she knows those and promised to sing to him. Mary states that nothing could have comforted her more than knowing Rochelle was willing to sing to her actively dying husband! While [the nominee was] coming to thank her after meeting with Mary, [the nominee] found Rochelle in James’s room singing to him.
We are grateful to have Rochelle caring for our patients and residents. #daisyaward
Nursing Honor Guard
Everyone is invited to help us recognized our nurses who have retired and also memorialize our nurses who have departed within the last year. The event will take place on August 18, 2021, at 4 p.m. in the Reflection Garden at Riverside Medical Center.
As Nurses pledge to care for their patients, with loyalty and as a missioner of health, devoting themselves to the service of human welfare, Riverside also pledges to support our Nurses.
On August 18th, 2021, in the Riverside Healing Garden, we will unite to recognize our RN’s and LPN’s who have retired from Riverside Healthcare, and we will also memorialize our nurses who have departed within the last year.
Riverside is grateful for each of our nurses who walk with each of us in our community on our remarkable journeys.
Do you know a Riverside nurse who has either retired or passed away during the last year. Contact Andrea Keith [email protected] with their name so we can make sure to include them.
Magnet Minute: July 2021
This month we feature Elizabeth Deck, DNP, FNP-BC, CDE, who is a Certified Nurse Practitioner Senior Advanced Practice Provider/Riverside Medical Group and Laura Fitzpatrick, MBA, MSN, RN-BC, who is our Onboarding Coordinator.
DAISY Award: Maria P.
Meet our newest DAISY award recipient, Maria Pappas. Maria is an Oncology Registered Nurse at Riverside Healthcare’s Frankfort Campus. The DAISY Award is an honor that recognizes the exceptional, skillful, and compassionate care these nurses demonstrate for our patients and families every day. Maria’s patient nomination noted, “Maria has been an important part of my life. … I could (not) have gone through chemo without her. I am eternally grateful for her compassionate care.“
If you have had or witnessed extraordinary nursing care and would like to nominate your Riverside Healthcare nurse, visit http://bit.ly/Riverside_Daisy
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