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I would like to nominate Karen Davis from the PICU at Dayton Children's. Karen is a day shift charge nurse and member of the Mobile Intensive Care Unit team at Dayton Children's. Karen has very strong clinical skills. She frequently orients new employees to the unit and she also readily works with nursing students. She can comfortably care for the sickest child in the unit, and she collaborates well with the intensivists related to the patient's plan of care. She is a very strong patient and family advocate. She works with the Caps for Kids program which provides autographed hats for children receiving chemotherapy. She loves working with this group and she enjoys giving these hats to the children. This is just on example of how she advocates for children. She is a very compassionate person, and she always spends extra time with the families and/or the patients to make sure that all of their needs are met. She is excellent with family education and she takes the time to answer all of their questions. she is also a charge nurse in the unit, and she is a strong leader for the group. I am very happy to nominate Karen for the salute to nursing, she is an excellent clinician, mentor and advocate and Dayton Children's is lucky to have her.
Nominated by Tammi Wiggins