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Excellence in Management
An RN who makes signifi cant contributions to the management, supervision or direction of the environment of care and the performance of staff , demonstrating an ability to lead, infl uence and improve outcomes of care in any inpatient or outpatient setting.
Tamre Del Valle, MSN, RN
Director of ED and Cardiac Cath Lab
Valley Presbyterian Hospital Van Nuys, Calif.
Rising Star
An RN who has been licensed and working in any care setting for fewer than fi ve years and who possesses a strong nursing knowledge base and good clinical skills; who shows special characteristics and traits indicative of future leadership strengths; who has personal and career goals in place and who demonstrates knowledge of current professional nursing issues.
Alyse Straub, MSN, RN, PCCN
Clinical Nurse, Progressive Care Sharp Grossmont Hospital La Mesa, Calif.
Del Valle’s GEM nominator quoted John Quincy Adams to describe qualities Del Valle embodies: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
Del Valle said what aff ected her nursing career most was that she could develop her leadership attributes as she evolved from ED fl oor nurse to charge nurse, manager and director. She said this progression gave her the opportunity “to develop and build a leadership style from the grassroots … always remembering what I and my peers wanted in a leader.”
Del Valle said winning the GEM award made her feel “grateful and blessed to have great mentors and a supportive staff .”
One of her most significant contributions was the lead role she had in the ED redesign, which focused on improving how patients moved through the department while staff continued to provide safe, timely care. Del Valle worked with the ED team to map out workflows and identify best practices, and said she is proud that staff “owned the process they created and were empowered.”
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Last May was a banner Nurses Week for Straub. She was voted Nurse of the Year at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, and the next day she learned she was the Rising Star for
Nurse.com’s West region. “I was amazed and excited,” she said, and the recognition she received was overwhelming and “a lot of happy tears were shed.”
Straub began her nursing career on the PCU at Sharp and quickly began climbing the clinical ladder. She was “full of energy, passion and the desire to be an asset to our unit and the profession,” said her GEM award nominator, who is her nurse manager. Straub became a member of the Shared Governance Unit Practice Council and serves as its chairwoman.
Straub said one of her best career decisions was to further her education. In 2015, she completed her MSN, joined the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and attained certifi cation in progressive care nursing. She believes knowledge “goes a long way in improving your confi dence, critical thinking and professionalism.” Her advice to nurses is to never stop learning. •
Donna Novak, DNP, RN, CRNP, is a freelance writer and works as a community health nurse practitioner at the Bethlehem Health Bureau in Bethlehem, Pa.
READ EXTENDED PROFILES ON THE WINNERS AT
Nurse.com/Article/2016-GEM-West-Winners
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