坦雅·爱德华兹,临床护士姑息治疗在MD安德森她是2016年布朗基金会肿瘤护理杰出奖的获得者。该奖项由布朗基金会于1982年创立,是该机构在护士中获得的最高荣誉MD安德森。
选拔委员会MD安德森临床教员、病人护理管理人员和护理人员审查了同行和病人的提名,然后将选择范围缩小到三名决赛选手。
爱德华兹获得了$ 15,000个奖从布朗的基金会,由南希Abendshein,董事长,以及水晶牌匾和纪念销在为首仪式代表罗纳德•DePinho医学博士总裁MD安德森。
爱德华兹说:“我对这个荣誉感到非常高兴,这完全出乎我的意料。”爱德华兹还是个小女孩的时候,她的祖母都死于癌症,现在她开始对帮助癌症患者、改善他们的生活产生了兴趣。“护理MD安德森让我有机会在学校的支持下,扩阔实践范围,追求卓越。”
爱德华兹从事护士工作已经超过21年,其中近一半的时间是在美国MD安德森。在加入该机构,她获得了硕士学位,老年学和护理学的副学士学位。从那时起,她已经完成了她理学士护理。她目前是德州大学阿灵顿分校攻读家庭护士执业许可证。
在MD安德森爱德华对姑息治疗部门产生了重大影响。她独自实施了一个核心团队的方法来保护阿片类药物的安全,并在防止阿片类药物滥用和滥用的同时对工作人员进行病人安全方面的教育。她的工作为缓解疼痛和药物滥用提供了一种新的方法,并得到了全世界姑息治疗界的认可。
爱德华兹说,她感受到了作为一名护士的真正意义MD安德森是她的核心。
“成为一名护士是我的荣幸和荣幸MD安德森帮助我们的病人感觉更好,减轻他们的压力,”她说。
在颁奖典礼上,徳平厚表彰了爱德华兹“激励和丰富”病人及其爱人生活的能力,并提到了她卓越的护理技能,这“帮助我们努力实现结束这种毁灭性疾病造成的痛苦和折磨的目标”。
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