UConn Health is celebrating its nurses with a series of events to mark National Nurses Week.
Thursday night, 10 UConn Health nurses were honored at the 2016 Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing dinner at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Five of UConn’s Nightingale nurses have been featured in a new UConn Health video series, “Spotlight on Nursing”:
- Tim Tralli, correctional head nurse, Hartford Correctional Center
- Lynne Neff, Correctional Managed Health Care transitional services manager
- Arlene Morin, wound and ostomy clinical nurse specialist
- Jennifer Sposito, stroke/trauma coordinator
- Anne Niziolek, nurse manager, medicine and telemetry
UConn Health’s Nurses Week events start with a Friday afternoon with a reception that includes the announcement of nursing staff who earned a degree or certification, been published, presented at a professional conference, been promoted, or otherwise honored with a nursing award in the past year.
The days following include a roving coffee cart for both day and night shift by nursing managers, a reiki lecture and treatments (registration required), reflexology and massage treatments (registration required), and on Tuesday, a nursing grand rounds for which participants earn nursing continuing education credit.
“We really can’t do enough to show our nurses how fortunate we are to have them and how much we appreciate their tireless commitment to patient care,” says UConn Health Chief Nursing Officer Ann Marie Capo. “I hope the entire UConn Health community will join me in recognizing our fantastic nurses.”
Throughout UConn Health’s observance of Nurses Week, chaplain Catherine Wilcox is offering a blessing of the hands. Full schedule details are available at nursing.uchc.edu.
