Augusta, Ga. ? ?Missy? Angeline Pratt, Assistant Vice President of Perioperative Services at Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center, was named CSRA Nurse of the Year at the 2012 Nursing Showcase hosted by the CSRA Chapter of the Georgia Nurses Association. The Showcase and awards banquet is an annual prelude to National Nurses Week.
Pratt was cited for being a skilled mentor, educator and nursing hero who lives by the mantra that ?You can never be wrong if you always do what is best for the patient.? She also received the Nurse Administrator of the Year award at the banquet.
Pratt joined Georgia Health Sciences Health System in 2002, where she oversees 20 Operating Rooms; two Women?s Operating Rooms; Perfusion Services; Anesthesia Services; the Post Anesthesia Care Units; Same Day Services; Endoscopy; Central Sterile Reprocessing and OR Purchasing/Materials. During her tenure, she significantly reduced the average cost per surgery as well as the amount of blood used. She is also credited with improving employee retention and reorganizing Perioperative Services into a patient-focused, service-oriented team.
Previously, she was Director of the Surgical Services Division at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Miami Heart Institute in Miami Beach, Fla. Pratt earned an AA degree in nursing from Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Fla., and Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Health Administration from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill.
Pratt is a member of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, Georgia Nurses Association and the University HealthSystem Consortium Perioperative Council. She is also active in the local Heart Walk that? benefits the American Heart Association.
In all, there were 14 GHS nominees for Nurse of the Year, and two other nominees received recognition awards: Margaret Johnson, Senior Staff Nurse in Adult Perioperative Services was awarded Nurse Educator/Researcher of the Year, and Sue Andrews, Perianesthesia Manager, was awarded Nurse Manager of the Year.
Furthermore, the following GHS nurses received Spirit of Nursing awards at the Showcase for reflecting a positive image of the nursing profession and serving as role models and mentors to other nurses:
- Brenda Pitt, Emergency Department
- Dieredre Grzeskiewicz, Emergency Department
- Sarah Cartwright, Adult Perioperative Services
- Debra Marranci, Adult Perioperative Services
- Neva Harrsion, Medical Office Building
- Tod Schnetzler, Medical Office Building
- Susan Gurley, Children?s Medical Center
- Leesa Mary Hancock, Children?s Medical Center
- Pamela Gardner, Patient Care Services
- Rochelle Hunt-Kahn, Patient Care Services
- Kathryn Mathis,? Patient Care Services
- Kelli Holder, Patient Care Services
The Georgia Association of PeriAnesthesia Nurses also recognized GAPAN member Mariamma John, a Same Day Care Nurse on 8 West at GHS Medical Center, with a Spirit of Nursing award.
According to the American Nurses Association, there are about 3 million registered nurses in the United States today. Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that has grown tremendously over the years. Most people associate nurses with hospitals, but hospitals are just one of the many areas where today?s nurses practice.
National Nurses Week is celebrated annually beginning on May 6, also known as National Nurses Day, through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
The 478-bed Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center is operated by the Georgia Health Sciences Health System, a not-for-profit corporation that manages the clinical operations of Georgia Health Sciences University. The health system also includes a Critical Care Center, housing the region?s only Level I trauma center ; the 154-bed Children?s Medical Center, providing the highest level of pediatric critical care and neonatal intensive care; and more than 80 outpatient clinics that provide primary and specialty care inside the Medical Office Building.
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