1. 2009 Nursing Excellence Awards Ceremony Thursday, May 7, 2009 10 a.m. Northwestern Memorial Hospital Feinberg Pavilion Third Floor Conference Room A

2. W ELCOME Dean M. Harrison President and Chief Executive Officer Northwestern Memorial HealthCare I NTRODUCTION TO A WARDS Michelle A. Janney, RN, PhD, NEA-BC Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive Northwestern Memorial Hospital P RESENTATION OF A WARDS Excellence in Nursing Practice Award Winners Michelle Munroe, RN, BSN, OCNOncology Nursing Karina Gonzalez, RN, BSNNeuro/Ortho Nursing Kathleen Quail, RN, BSN, CVNMedicine Nursing Oscar Perry, RN-CStone Institute of Psychiatry Rebecca Harap, RN, BSNInpatient Surgical Nursing Brenda Burke, RN, CENEmergency Department Semico Miller, RN, BHA, CCRN, CNRNFloat Pool/Rapid Response Team Patricia Gierut, RN, BSNKovler Organ Transplantation Center Katie Doyle, RNC, MSNWomen’s Health Vanessa Payne, RNCWomen’s Health Melanie Silos, RN, BSNSurgical Services Christina Baumrucker, RN, BSNRadiology Katie Dejuras, RN, MSNOperations and Quality APN Peer Recognition Award Winner Laura Mazzenga, APRN, BC, CNP, CUNP Surgical Patient Care Hospitalwide Partner in Care Award Winner Environmental Services

3. S PECIAL R ECOGNITION Chapman Scholars Mary Alice Ackerman, RN, BSN Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit “Nurse-Guided Extubation Protocol for CTICU Patients” Sara A. Flickner, RN, BSN, OCN Hematology “Patient and Family Education: Before, During and After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT)” Minnie Gaffney, RN, CCRN Float Pool/Rapid Response Team “Evaluating an Intervention: The Rapid Response Team” Princess Ivy, RN-BC, BSN 8 West Stone “Using De-Escalation Skills to Manage Agitated or Threatening Patients” Lisa M. Scholz, RN, MS Kovler Organ Transplantation Center “Use of an Assessment Tool to Determine Psychological Distress Among Abdominal Organ Transplant Recipients in an Outpatient Setting” Lita Simpson Sabonis, RN, BC, BS, BSN 8 East Stone “Assessing Inpatient Psychiatric Nurses’ Knowledge of Sensory Intervention Techniques for Decreasing Disruptive, Disregulating and/or Self-Injurious Impulses in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorders” Maureen Swiderski, RN, CHPN, OCN 16 Prentice “Death Rattle as Predictor of Time Until Death” Erin Higgins Darguzas, RN, BSN Medical Intensive Care Unit “Assessment of Delirium in the Critically Ill Patient with CAM-ICU” Brinson Scholars Elishia Spitler, RNC, BSN Renée Schine Crown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Erin O’Brien, RNC, BSN Renée Schine Crown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Unit Partner in Care Award Winners Marcos Lara Food and Nutrition Nominated by 8 East and 8 West Stone Leonardo Rivera Environmental Services Nominated by 9 Prentice and Prentice Float Pool Sarah Manes Physical Therapy Nominated by 10 Southeast Feinberg Regina Boamah Inventory Management Nominated by 10 Northeast Feinberg LaShonda Hayes Environmental Services Nominated by 10 West Feinberg

4. Unit Partner in Care Award Winners Christina Silkaitis Infection Control Nominated by 11 East Feinberg Brenda Brown Environmental Services Nominated by 11 Prentice LaQuinta Willis Environmental Services Nominated by 11 Prentice Humphrey Phillips Facilities Management Nominated by 11 West Feinberg Alicia Moffett Hospitality Nominated by 12 East and 12 West Feinberg Wayne Bork Prentice Management Operations Nominated by 12 Prentice Elizabeth Vetter Pharmacy Nominated by 13 East Feinberg James Randall Point of Care Testing Nominated by 13 Prentice and Radiology Jessie Green Materials Management Nominated by 13 West Feinberg Kevin O’Leary, MD Medicine Nominated by 14 East Feinberg Jorge Mamon Environmental Services Nominated by 14 Prentice Krystal Jones Case Management Nominated by 14 West Feinberg Brenda Henson Case Management Nominated by 15 East Feinberg Andrea Thomas Environmental Services Nominated by 15 Prentice Diane Lampe Heart Failure Pulmonary Nominated by 15 West Feinberg Mileva Savich Case Management Nominated by 16 East Feinberg Elvis Taylor Volunteer Nominated by 16 Prentice Katie Vanderzwan Hospitalist Physicians Nominated by 16 West Feinberg Francisco Vallejo Facilities and Engineering Nominated by Ambulatory Surgery and the Olson Operating Room Fernando Acevys Miramed Company Nominated by Case Management Prentice Resource

5. Unit Partner in Care Award Winners L. Fabiola Briones Patient Representative Nominated by the Cardiac Cath Lab, the Cardiac Surveillance Unit and Invasive Cardiology Recovery Edward Bowens Prentice Management Operations Nominated by the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Kirt Gerber Adult Respiratory Care Nominated by the Cardiac Care Unit and the Medicine Intensive Care Unit Kevin Desai Clinical Information Systems Nominated by the Emergency Department Brian Galitz Materials Management Nominated by the Feinberg Operating Room Mary Pat Brennan Integration Nominated by the Float Pool Chris Canto Pathology Nominated by the GI Lab Ali Riahi Biomedical Engineering Nominated by Inpatient Dialysis Dr. Michael Ison Medicine/Infectious Diseases Nominated by the Kovler Organ Transplantation Center Steve Beamon Environmental Services Nominated by Labor and Delivery Nancy Kreider Clinical Systems Patient Care Nominated by the Renée Schine Crown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Sally Kinnamon Chaplain Nominated by the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit Joe Byrnes Environmental Services Nominated by the Feinberg Post Anesthesia Care Unit Stephanie Butler Olson Operating Room Nominated by the Prentice Operating Room Dr. Peter Kallas Medicine/Hospital Medicine Nominated by the Pre-operative Clinic Patricia Allen Environmental Services Nominated by Same Day Surgery Noemi Quezada Environmental Services Nominated by OB Triage C LOSING R EMARKS Dennis M. Murphy Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Northwestern Memorial Hospital Please join us for a reception immediately following the ceremony.