Almost 33 years after being hired at North Country Hospital, Kim Major R.N., a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at North Country Hospital, and 1976 graduate of North Country Union High School was honored with the sixth annual North Country Hospital Nursing Excellence Award. The honor was bestowed upon her by her peers at an award ceremony on May 12 at the Eastside Restaurant in Newport as part of Nurses Week.
The award recognizes a North Country Hospital nurse who exemplifies excellence in nursing through compassion, ownership, partnership, dignity, integrity, knowledge and communication. They are nominated by their peers. The five previous winners of this award reviewed the nominations and letters of support. This task fell into the capable hands of Eileen Burnor, Robin Hahn, Rita Nye, Joanne Root and Sue Morin. for reviewing the nominations and letters of support and carrying out the remarkable task of selecting one award recipient.
When she was invited to the award ceremony, Kim said she knew she was one of the three nominees but she had no idea that she was the recipient. The two other nurses nominated were: Abby Provost RN, a nurse in the Emergency Department, and Bruce Muir RN, a nurse in Med/Surg.