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Bennett Receives NANN's Top Honor
MaryAnne Bennett, BSN, RN, of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, this month received the National Association of Neonatal Nurses' highest honor: the Robyn Main Excellence in Clinical Practice Award.
The award is bestowed annually to one exceptional neonatal nurse to recognize and encourage excellence in direct patient care. Bennett, who has worked in the NICU for 20 years, knows immediately what needs to be done for a critically ill patient and how to do it. This allows her to excel as a preceptor for newer NICU nurses and to pass her expertise on to them.
"MaryAnne is a role model to all of us in the NICU," Marianne Cummings, RN, nurse manager of the NICU, said. "Her intuitive understanding of the needs of her patients, families and fellow nurses is what really sets MaryAnne apart. A member of our staff said it best: to work with MaryAnne is to know you will be well taken care of."
The families of Bennett's patients agree. Her ongoing relationships with many former NICU patients and families who still visit her and send her cards—some even after 18 years—is testament to the impact of her compassion and skill.
Doyle Named OR Manager of the Year
Margaret "Peggy" Doyle, MSN, RN, this month was named OR Manager of the Year by the national publication OR Manager, Inc.
Doyle, who joined BWH in 1980 as manager of Perioperative Services, is now director of Perioperative Services and oversees more than 30,000 procedures annually. BWH's safe environment has benefited tremendously from Doyle's innovative and successful initiatives. Thanks to her Dynamic Scheduling initiative launched in 1995, 90 percent of patients are admitted to the hospital on the day of their surgeries.
During her more than 25 years at BWH, Doyle has served as an advocate for nurses and nursing students. She established the newly licensed nurse program in the OR, which provides top graduates from Boston-area nursing schools the opportunity to shadow and be mentored by OR nurses at BWH. She also organized Nursing Grand Rounds and created a training program that ensures effective communication among caregivers and between caregivers and patients.
"Peggy has developed a loyal and dedicated management team through highly effective day-to-day leadership," John Fernandez, vice president of Clinical Services, said. "She has done this by having structured and thoughtful retreats for the perioperative leadership staff, team-building exercises, implementing flow improvement projects and, most importantly, by zealously pursuing safe and good patient and family care."