From left: ELIZABETH ASHWORTH B.S.N., RN, OCN, and DIANE HUDSON, RN, OCN: © PHOTOS BY ALEX HEARN
It’s with nice satisfaction and admiration that I nominate Diane Hudson, RN, OCN, for the Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing. She has supplied distinctive care, compassion and experience in oncology for a few years. In actual fact, she mentored me once I was new to the outpatient oncology setting in 2005 and has continued to be a revered chief for brand spanking new nurses over all of those years.
ELIZABETH ASHWORTH B.S.N., RN, OCN, and DIANE HUDSON, RN, OCN: © PHOTOS BY ALEX HEARN
She is a nurse who stands out as a beacon of compassion and skilled medical care, all the time prepared to share her information and expertise to assist nurses develop abilities and confidence. She has the innate potential to take a look at a affected person together with her fine-tuned evaluation abilities and decide whether or not they’re in misery, their laboratory outcomes are off or they simply want a hug. Her emotional help is as skilled of a ability as her scientific abilities.
Being an oncology nurse requires a excessive degree of scientific abilities, and Diane regularly exceeds expectations. Throughout my years of working with Diane at Rocky Mountain Most cancers Facilities, I’ve watched her name about new therapies akin to a speedy protocol and focus on the way it have to be primed down the road to work successfully. She has meticulous consideration to element, guaranteeing that each facet of a affected person’s care is managed. She appears to be like on the complete affected person, and it’s evident in the way in which she practices as an skilled nurse in oncology.
Diane Hudson exemplifies what it means to be a rare oncology nurse. She has had a profound influence on the lives of sufferers and nurses, together with on my life. This isn’t solely a nomination, however a “Thanks” to her. The world has been made higher together with her in it!
