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Nursing at Texas Children's Hospital
Tammy Taylor, a registered nurse on
14 West Tower, was named 2004 Texas Children's Nurse of the Year.
The
award, established in 1985 through an anonymous donor and the Junior
League of Houston, honors outstanding nurses who demonstrate
professionalism, teamwork,
Service with HEART, and dedication to family-centered care.
Candidates are nominated by a member of their leadership team and
selected by a blind panel of nurse leaders.
Taylor has been working at Texas
Children's since September 1998 as a RN on the Pulmonary/Adolescent
unit. She graduated with an Associate Degree in Nursing
from Angelina College in 1995.
Mona Andrews, registered nurse from 14 West Tower, was named 2004
Preceptor of the Year. Nursing established the award in 1999 to
acknowledge the preceptor role as integral to the success of Texas
Children's nursing program. Preceptor candidates are nominated by
staff nurses, many of whom are the preceptors' current or previous
orientees and selected by a blind panel from Clinical Training and
Development.
Andrews has been a nurse for nearly 5
years. She started working at Texas Children's as a graduate nurse.
She graduated from The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston May 2002 where she earned a BS in Nursing.
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Susie Castillo was honored by the Texas Nurses Association District
9 for outstanding nursing practice. A registered nurse and mentor to
other nurses, Castillo has been at Texas Children’s since 1993.
Castillo serves on several unit-based committees at Texas
Children’s. She is a member of the parish nurse ministry at St.
Mary’s Catholic Church in League City and the Clear Lake Independent
School District Health Advisory Board. Castillo received her
bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston and is a certified pediatric nurse.
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Kathleen McLane, a wound, ostomy
and continence nurse, was awarded the first South Central Region
President's Award for her contribution to the Wound, Ostomy and
Continence Nursing Society (WOCN) in pediatric pressure ulcer
research. McLane spearheaded and published several benchmark studies
and contributed to a special edition of the
Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing. She
participated in the pediatric subcommittee of the WOCN's clinical
practice committee and served as preceptor for pediatric wound,
skin, ostomy and tube care in M.D. Anderson's wound, ostomy and
continence nurse-education program.
McLane has been a pediatric nurse for
16 years. She earned a BSN from Oakland University in Rochester,
Mich. and and MSN from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich.
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Carol A. Carrier, a neonatal nurse of 20 years, was a recipient of
the nursing leadership sabbaticals for her project "Information
Technology to Support High-Risk Infant Development". This project's
goals are to:
1) Design a database for individual
developmental exams;
2) Develop an information database to
provide transition for high-risk infant follow-up in community or
outpatient developmental programs; and
3) Implement an information exchange
between community services and Texas Children's Newborn Center that
supports clinical tracking of infants for long-term follow-up and
research.
Carrier
is a neonatal nurse with 20 years of experience. She is published in
peer reviewed journals and neonatal nursing textbooks. She has been
working in Texas Children's Newborn Center as a neonatal clinical
nurse specialist for 11 years.
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In January 2003, Texas Children's
Hospital received national
Magnet Recognition, one of the highest honors in nursing. The
hospital is re-evaluated every four years to ensure quality. Just 67
hospitals have achieved Magnet status nationwide, and only three are
freestanding children's hospitals.
Texas Children's employs more than
1,000 nurses in more than 42 pediatric subspecialties, including
neonatology, cardiology, surgery, cancer and many more.
The Magnet
designation is administrated by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC), the largest nursing accrediting and
credentialing organization in the United States.
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