Margaret Perry has been an outstanding example of the Education Mentorship award in the many years that she has worked as a Clinical Educator for the Human Resource Education & Organizational Development department at Carilion Clinic. Her commitment and passion to helping grow new educators from novice to expert is a characteristic that I have long admired and model my personal growth after.

Congratulations to the Physicians of Carilion Family Medicine in Wytheville as they were voted Best Physicians in the community!! It is an honor to work with such an amazing group of providers as they work very hard serving the patients of Wythe County. So proud to be a part of Team Wytheville as they are all awesome! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication!

On October 19th, The Nursing Center of Excellence presented the Outstanding Preceptor Award to Kim Manning, RN from 10MPCU.  Leaders from the Nursing Center of Excellence presented her with the award alongside her team members and nursing leaders. Brittany Ashwell, RN, Transition to Practice Facilitator, who submitted the nomination said that " Kim Manning is not only an outstanding employee, whom has worked for the organization for 42 years (20+ on 10MPCU), but an outstanding preceptor to new hires, nursing students, & nurse externs.

Congratulations to Pediatrics and PICU who just celebrated 0 CLABSIs!   Zero CLABSIs for 7 years for Peds and 3 years for PICU!    Thank you for your commitment to keeping our patients safe!

On 10/30/22 we had a ESRD patient coming to the dialysis unit for an marked decrease in their sodium level. A repeat lab was drawn at the beginning of dialysis to verify result and when the results were completed the sodium was unchanged but there was a critical change in this patient's potassium levels. Sarah Allen RN and Kim Crigger RN had Respiratory bring an IStat down to perform a lab at the bedside. The results were low.  If they had treated the critical high it would have been detrimental to the patient. This was a great catch!

On October 18th, The Nursing Center of Excellence traveled to CNRV to present the Outstanding Preceptor Award to Sara Sartin, RN.  Leaders from the Nursing Center of Excellence presented her with the award alongside her team members and nursing leaders.

Kudos to our dining and nutrition team for their commitment to staff and patient safety by taking time to learn how to use a fire extinguisher.  Over 60 team members were certified to use a fire extinguisher by the emergency management and life safety team.

We wanted to recognize Tyschana Turnage for the excellent job she is doing in Endoscopy. She has kept up with our supply, which we know can be difficult because of how much supplies we need. It's important to us to keep our stock so we can better help our patients, and she helps us by keeping us in check. We appreciate how hard she works for our department and her always willingness to help.

On October 17th, The Nursing Center of Excellence awarded the Outstanding Preceptor Award to Lexie Pollard, RN.  Leaders from the Nursing Center of Excellence presented her with the award alongside her team members and unit leaders. Kate Meredith, LPN, who submitted the nomination said that Lexie "took the utmost of care to teach, explain, demonstrate, and reinforce the education and knowledge that I needed to be the best nurse I could be here at Carilion.

Wishing all the Respiratory Therapist in the Carilion System a wonderful week.  Thank you for all that you do!!!

Nikki