NAON Outstanding Orthopaedic Nurse Practice Award

Outstanding Contribution to NAON

Simone Stein, RN, ONC, CMSRN

Distinguished Service to NAON

Debra Sietsema, PhD, RN

President's Award

Marjorie Kulesa, RN, BS, ONC, CNOR, and Christina Kurkowski, NP

Nan Hilt Writers Award

Marilyn Joan Cupec

Teresa Pellino Research Writers Award

Susan Rees, Linda Stevens, Deborah Dalsing, and Karen Lamb (not pictured)

2014 NAON Congress Poster Winners

* Clinical Practice

[black small square] 1st Place: CP 32 - One Unit's Journey to Reducing Falls in the Orthopedic Unit

Jonniesa Alvarez

[black small square] 2nd Place: CP 72 - Implementation of Telemetry to An Orthopaedic Nursing Unit to Increase Patient Safety and Satisfaction

Marybeth Wintrow

Michelle Kern

[black small square] 3rd Place: CP 65 - Joint & Spine Center at Northwest Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona - "Moving Patients Forward"

Mary Sotelo

Dinajawan Balderas

* Education

[black small square] 1st Place: E12 - Improving Orthopaedic Patient Readiness for Discharge Through Post-Operative Education Classes

Joanne Hobbs

April Mount

Ida Anderson

Medina Franzen

Jayne Petefish

[black small square] 2nd Place: E2 - Getting Hip: Using Simulation to Enhance Education for a Geriatric Hip Fracture Program

Nanette Morgan

[black small square] 3rd Place: E19 - Joint Venture: A Multidisciplinary Total Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Educational Program

Cynthia DeHoyos

* Leadership

[black small square] 1st Place: L10 - Hosting a Staff Nurse-driven Professional Conference

Chad Hutchinson

[black small square] 2nd Place: L18 - Professional Development Bundle: Leading the Way to Orthopedic Staff Nurse Development

Jessie Reich

Lorraine Green

Kathy Magnes

[black small square] 3rd Place: L23 - Using Whiteboards to Promote Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Increase Patient Satisfaction

Iris Gonzalo-Sowle

Donna Trerise

* Research

[black small square] 1st Place: R3 - Wound Complications with Therapeutic Anticoagulation after Total Joint Arthroplasty

Theresa St. John

[black small square] 2nd Place: R1 - The Relationship Between Non-Surgical Pain and Interference with Activity in Patients Undergoing a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Jacqueline Samms-McPherson

Deborah Wittig-Wells

[black small square] 3rd Place: R2 - Comparison of Pain, Anxiety, and Patient Experience after Caring Touch In Orthopedic Nursing (CONNECTION Study)

Lisa Gilmore

Kimberly Rice

Carolyn S. Fitzmaurice