As Canadians mark National Nursing Week, Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional Hospital are celebrating their nurses.
Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare held an awards ceremony on Wednesday to recognize the hard work nurses do every day.
It awarded the Jeanne Mance Extraordinary Nursing Care Award, which recognizes nurses who consistently go above and beyond for their patients, to Registered Nurse Shelly Ouellette, Registered Practical Nurse Antonella Whalen, and Charge Nurse Eleysha Pare.
This year's Lori Dupont Bursary was awarded to Registered Nurse Brooke Campoli and Nurse Practitioner Shauna Carter. Campoli will use the bursary to get her Nurse Practitioner designation, while Carter will use it to pay for her studies in Catholic Bioethics. The bursary is worth $1,000.
The bursary is named after Nurse Lori Dupont, who was murdered in 2005 in an act of intimate partner violence.
Windsor Regional Hospital named three of its nurses recipients of the bursary.
At that hospital, six nurses won the Jeanne Mance Extraordinary Nursing Care Award. They are Registered Practical Nurse Spenser Dionne, Registered Nurse Michelle Gagne, Registered Practical Nurse Ahmad Khalil, Registered Practical Nurse Linda Laramie, and Registered Nurses Karen McConnell and Josephine Piazza.
Windsor Regional Hospital also introduced six new award categories: Rookie of the Year, Student of the Year, Nursing Leader, Veteran of the Year, Patient Safety Award, and Patient Experience Award.