Maryland
State ENA Receives ENA
State
Council Achievement Award
Once again, Maryland State ENA has received the ENA
State Council Achievement Award for the work that was done in 2009. Each of
the leadership and active members has contributed to this award.
The award criteria that is established by National
ENA is reviewed by our Maryland State President who completes the
application and report that validates our participation and goal
achievements for the year. This is then evaluated by staff and leaders at
the National ENA level who designate eligible State Councils this award.
We were notified that we would be a recipient by
Diane Gurney, RN, MS, CEN, 2010 ENA President.
The State Council Achievement
Award recipients will be honored at the opening session of Leadership
Conference on
Friday,
February 19, 2010, 7:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
2009 National ENA
Md State Booth Winners
Congratulations, Karima Durrazai from Texas (won a
Coach Purse) and Julie Heasly from Iowa (won G & M Crab Cakes) who were
winners at the Md. State ENA Booth in Baltimore.
Scholarship Winners to
2009 National ENA from Maryland
Maryland
State ENA awarded full scholarships to Debbie O’Brien and Sandy Waak (both
from
Prince Georges
Hospital
Center) and Christine Deckard (from Havre De Grace) to
National ENA Conference in Baltimore October 2009.
They both were contest winners after submitting compelling essays and
statements regarding their reasons for wanting to attend the conference.
Mid Maryland Chapter ENA Awards 2009 Scholarships
MMC President Cindy Sellers wrote a letter to each of
the 15 hospitals asking for their recommendation for one day scholarship
recipients to the National ENA Conference in Baltimore. Of the hospitals that responded, 6
scholarships were awarded and those recipients represented Maryland State
for one hour during the conference as an ambassador. Those scholarship
winners were
Ron Hoggard from Shady Grove Adventist
Hospital
Kelly Criswell from Montgomery General
Hospital
Daisy Abella from Fort Washington
Medical
Center
Theresa Gibson from Washington Adventist
Hospital
Laura Schick from St. Mary’s Hospital
Jeanmarie Ricks from Calvert Memorial
Hospital
Maryland Chapter ACEP Emergency Nurse of the Year Award
Congratulations to Mary
Ellen Wilson, our 2009 Maryland ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) Emergency
Nurse of the Year !! Mary Ellen is currently employed in the Emergency
Department at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, and is the current 2009 Metro
Baltimore Chapter ENA President.
“From left to right-
Cyndy Wright-Johnson, Sandy Waak, Lynn Brown, Mary Ellen Wilson (Nurse of
the Year), Caroline Doyle, and Linda Arapian.”)
Congratulations to the 2009 National
ENA Maryland State Scholarship
Winners
ENA
Foundation EMS Undergraduate
Scholarship
$5,000
Hershaw Davis, Jr., EMT
Hershaw serves as a role model for
both EMS providers and student
nurses. Active in the health
care field for 5 years, Hershaw, in
addition to attending nursing
school, is an active EMT-Basic in
the state of Maryland and an active
ENA member. Hershaw recognizes
the importance of the collegial
relationships in professional
organization. In addition to
being a member of ENA, in June of
2008, he will move from the
president-elect position to
president of the Maryland
Association of Nursing Students.
During his tenure in health care, he
has served as president of the
Minority Student Nurses Association
at the University of Maryland at
Baltimore and treasurer of the
Nursing Student Government
Association at the University of
Maryland.
This
young man is an example of the next
generation of Emergency Nurse who
recognized the importance of
professionalism and role modeling
while being a motivated and excited
to be a member of the health care
team.
ENA
Foundation Advanced Practice
Scholarships $3,000
Bonnie
J. Skinner, RN, CEN
Bonnie
Skinner is an emergency nurse at St.
Mary’s Hospital in rural Southern
Maryland and an Allied Health
teacher at the St. Mary’s County
Public Schools. She has been a RN
since 1991 and has always worked in
the ED. Bonnie is also a Navy spouse
and in 2003 moved from Washington
State where she was active in ENA as
a State Injury Prevention
Coordinator. She won an award from
NHTSA and the ENA for her work in
injury prevention. Bonnie completed
her BSN degree requirements and
obtained a teaching certificate
during her moves to Iceland and then
Maryland. Additionally, she has
volunteered as an ENA EN411
resource. She is currently pursuing
a Master’s degree in nursing
education and she looks forward to
sharing her knowledge and expertise
about emergency nursing with others
in the future.
Bonnie
has said this scholarship has been a
blessing and an honor. She wants to
encourage her students towards
careers in the health care field.
Her favorite saying is “Yesterday is
history, tomorrow is mystery, but
today is a gift and that is why they
call it a present.”
