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2020 NJENA Professional Development Awards Recipients
Clinical Leadership Award
Amy Casteline
Described as a warm, approachable, present, inspiring leader with a vision for the ED, Amy makes the staff feel supported, listened to and inspired. Although the ED daily census doubled, her leadership enabled the ED to continue proving extraordinary patient care. 100% of the staff achieved TNCC and many completed ENPC and CEN.
Nursing Education Award
Patricia Nierstedt
Retired trauma nurse and very active ENA volunteer.
Pat, your NJENA peers are extremely grateful for your many years as a volunteer working to advance emergency nursing knowledge in NJ and nationally. As Trauma Educator, lecturer, TNCC faculty, TNCC and ECC Program committee chairperson and so many more roles you have expertly and graciously fulfilled. Also, you have been quietly there to educate, assist, mentor and encourage us as we take on new roles within NJENA at the chapter and state level such as officer roles, education, trauma, and conference committee work.
Nursing Practice and Professionalism
Barbara McCormick
U.S. Air Force Reserve Nurse serving as Chief Nurse for her squadron, a civilian SCTU nurse coordinator, and a clinical professor at Rutgers University.
Barbara, you have been described as a consummate professional nurse who embodies exceptional clinical skills, care and compassion for every patient and family member. During your deployment in Afghanistan you included Iraqi nurses, medics and physicians in basic trauma and emergency education. You also defined the new role of an emergency nurse in aeromedical transport. You never say no and have inspired many nurses through mentoring and support.
Quality, Safety and Injury Prevention
Jennifer Leaman
ED Geriatric-Palliative Nurse Navigator at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Your peers have recognized you for your involvement in safety and injury programs at St Joseph’s Health ED since 2016. As an active member of the NICHE program you advocate daily for palliative and hospice patients. You are recognized for your collaboration with the Health Care Coalition of Passaic County, National Council of Aging and participation in Boston on the delirium expert work group on how a family’s perspective of delirium effects on daily lifestyle.
APN Award
Tony Malek
ED Advance Practice Nurse at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Your peers have described you as a warm and caring bedside advance practice nurse who is an exceptional team player and strong patient advocate. Tony includes everyone on the care team in the patient plan of care. His humility, wisdom and compassion combined with his passion for high-quality and unwillingness to settle for less as a nurse make him a complete force that is truly appreciated in the ED.
Chapter Award
Northern New Jersey Chapter—Kim Russo, 2019 Chapter President
Northern Chapter is being recognized for implementation of creative solutions which have been successful over the past few years with increasing member involvement in chapter events.
Team Award
St. Joseph’s Health ALTO Team
This multidisciplinary team worked to create Alternatives to Opioid use in the ED. Comprehensive clinical practice guidelines enabled the ED to use many different approaches to control pain reducing ED opioid use by over 80%! The team created important partnerships with community organizations to promote OORP (Outpatient Opioid Recovery Programs) for patients with Opioid Use Disorder. This team developed MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment) in the ED for buprenorphine treatment along with a Naloxone outreach program. The nationally recognized ALTO team is leading the education of Opioid Reduction Options in partnership with NJHA.
President’s Awards
Presented by Jessica Trivett, 2019 NJENA President
Catherine and Richard Trivett (pictured on left)
Patricia Nierstedt
Elizabeth Mizerek
Congratulations to all of this years nominees and award recipients! To receive an award is not only a remarkable achievement, it also speaks to the respect that you have earned from your peers and of your dedication to your patients and fellow emergency nurses.
Check back in January for 2021 Professional Development Awards applications!
NJENA Past Award Winners
2020 Awards
Clinical Leadership - Amy Casteline
Nursing Education - Patricia Nierstedt
Nursing Practice and Professionalism - Barbara McCormick
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention - Jennifer Leaman
APN Award - Tony Malek
Chapter Award - Northern New Jersey Chapter / Kim Russo - 2019 Chapter President
Team - St Joseph’s Health ALTO Team
President’s Award:
Catherine and Richard Trivett
2019 Awards
Clinical Nurse Leadership - Mercedittas Mallari
Nursing Education - Lisa Winchester
Nursing Practice and Professionalism - Jeri Ennis
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention - Martina Skibola
Rising Star - Jamie Bohn
Team - Atlantic Mobile Health
President’s Award:
Emily Braun
2018 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Emilia Wawszczyk
Clinical Leadership - Victoria Soque
Education - Bobbi-Jean Plummer
Practice and Professionalism - Kathy Findlay
Quality, Safety & Injury Prevention - Beth Quraishi
Research - Dr. Mary Kamienski
Rising Star - Christine Gallego
Team Award - St Joseph’s Observation Unit
President’s Award:
Lisa Winchester
Bill Miller
Gust Bages
Jackie Wagner
Heather Linsalata
Dan Misa
Kim Russo
Tracey Scaletti
Anthony Angelow
Elizabeth McFarland
2017 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Ramazan Bahar
Clinical Leadership - Ana M Gehan
Education - Anthony Filippelli
Practice and Professionalism - Katherine Ann Gabin
Quality, Safety & Injury Prevention - Sharon Pineda
Research - Dr. Mary Kamienski
Rising Star - Kimberly Russo
Team Award - St Joseph’s Geriatric ED
President’s Award:
Jessica Trivett
2016 Awards
Behind the Scenes - Daniel Misa
Clinical Excellence - Susan Guilliams and Kimberly Russo
Competence in Aging - Richard Schultz
Educator - Cathlyn Robinson
Professionalism - Tracy Scaletti
Quality & Safety - Eva Rojas
Research - Elizabeth Mizerek
Rising Star - Heather Linsalata
President’s Award:
Bebe Greenberg
2015 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Anthony Angelow
Clinical Excellence - Joleen Ruth
Educator - Dawn Specht
Innovations in Nursing - Noreen Occhipinti
Quality & Safety - Margaret Thornton
Team - NJENA Southern Consortium
President’s Award:
Kelly Mcfarland
2014 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Gwyn Parris-Atwell
Behind the Scenes - Karen Halupke
Clinical Excellence - Debora LaTorre
Educator - Ray Bennett
Innovations in Nursing - Mary Kamienski
Quality & Safety - New Jersey Hospital Association
Rising Star - Sean Varricchio
Spirit - Bill Miller
President’s Award:
Patricia Nierstedt
Beth Macfarland
2013 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Mary Strauss
Behind the Scenes - Fred Fitchett
Clinical Excellence - Beth Manganaro
Educator - Jude Lark
Fundraising - Jackie Wynkoop
Leadership - Deb Cioffi
Rising Star - Daniel Misa
Team - Overlook ED
Vendor Support - Dan Smith - Vidacare
President’s Award:
Robyn Nierstedt
Barbara Conicello
Tim Murphy
Jeanette Ash Lifetime Achievement Award:
Jim Hoelz
Emergency Nursing 2021
Emergency Nursing 2021 will be a hybrid experience! Whether you can attend in person or virtually you can register now for the full conference!
General Assembly
General Assembly 2021 will occur on September 21 & 22 in Orlando, Florida! This event will be IN PERSON (there is not a virtual option for GA). NJ State Council has been allotted 23 delegates + 1 alternate delegate. If you are interested in serving as a delegate this year you can apply by clicking the link associated with your chapter below. If you have any questions you can reach out yo NJENA Board of Directors or your Chapter President.
Jersey Shore: Click Here to Apply
Northern: Click Here to Apply
Southern: Click here to apply
West Central: Click Here to Apply
Welcome to the New and Improved New Jersey Emergency Nurses Association Website!
Featured
Professional Development Award Applications 2021
Application deadline has been extended to April 21, 2021. Send applications to Beth McFarland at the email address listed in the nomination form!
Nomination Form: Click Here
Advanced Practice Nurse Award: Click Here
This award recognizes excellence as an advanced practice nurse in an emergency care setting. Recipients will be recognized by their peers, nursing and/or physician colleagues, and/or patients as clinical experts who deliver compassionate care in an emergency care setting. Recipients will be actively involved in promoting the role and strengthening emergency nursing.
Behind the Scenes Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions behind the scenes to promote NJENA’s mission of advocating for patient safety and excellence in nursing practice through their support of a member or members. This person is an NJENA advocate who is often seen but not heard and who donates countless hours to assist in achieving our goals.
Clinical Nurse Leadership Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who has consistently demonstrated excellence in the profession of emergency nursing and has made significant contributions through an emergency nursing management role. At least one letter of support must be from a nurse or nurses that the nominee supervises.
Crisis Response Team Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an emergency department healthcare team who has risen above-and-beyond to achieve ENA’s mission by responding to the challenges of working during a crisis situation (natural or man-made disasters, public health crisis).
Emerging Professional Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a new ENA member (membership less than 5 years) who has made significant contributions to ENA and/or NJENA as exhibited by involvement at chapter, state and/or national levels, lighting the way for the future of emergency nursing. One of the letters of support must be from the nominee’s State or Chapter President.
Nurse Research Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual nurse who has made significant contributions to the profession of emergency nursing by conducting research, disseminating research findings or using research to improve outcomes.
Nursing Competency in Elder Care Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a NJENA nurse who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the care of the older adult in an emergency care setting.
Nursing Education Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who has made significant contributions to the education of colleagues, nursing students, EMS personnel, patients, families or the community through the publication of articles, formal or informal courses, or the development of a specific emergency nursing program or curriculum.
Nursing Practice and Professionalism Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a nurse who exemplifies outstanding emergency nursing practice as demonstrated through clinical skills, care and compassion. This nurse consistently performs above and beyond the requirements of the job description in delivering quality care to patients, and participates in nursing programs, committees, or projects contributing to emergency nursing practice. The nurse is an expert in emergency nursing who consistently exhibits traits associated with professional behavior and commitment to professional values. The individual must be active within the profession and influences emergency nursing through interaction with other professionals, the media or the public. This individual may demonstrate outstanding commitment to a to a specialty population such as pediatrics or older adults within the specialty of emergency nursing.
Pediatric Readiness Improvement Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a NJENA nurse who has demonstrated outstanding efforts to improve readiness in caring for children in the emergency care setting.
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention Award: Click Here
This award recognizes an individual nurse who has developed and implemented, or advocated for innovative quality, safety or injury prevention initiatives in the emergency care setting.
Team Award: Click Here
This award recognizes a group that has made a significant contribution towards achieving the mission of ENA through a project or development of a sustainable program.
2021 NJENA Professional Development Committee:
Elizabeth (Beth) McFarland - Chair
Robin Boyer
Brenda Braun
Barb Conicello
Dana Kemery
Bill Miller
Pat Nierstedt
Jackie Wynkoop
2021 NJENA Professional Development Awards Recipients
Clinical Leadership Award
Amy Casteline
Described as a warm, approachable, present, inspiring leader with a vision for the ED, Amy makes the staff feel supported, listened to and inspired. Although the ED daily census doubled, her leadership enabled the ED to continue proving extraordinary patient care. 100% of the staff achieved TNCC and many completed ENPC and CEN.
Nursing Education Award
Patricia Nierstedt
Retired trauma nurse and very active ENA volunteer.
Pat, your NJENA peers are extremely grateful for your many years as a volunteer working to advance emergency nursing knowledge in NJ and nationally. As Trauma Educator, lecturer, TNCC faculty, TNCC and ECC Program committee chairperson and so many more roles you have expertly and graciously fulfilled. Also, you have been quietly there to educate, assist, mentor and encourage us as we take on new roles within NJENA at the chapter and state level such as officer roles, education, trauma, and conference committee work.
Nursing Practice and Professionalism
Barbara McCormick
U.S. Air Force Reserve Nurse serving as Chief Nurse for her squadron, a civilian SCTU nurse coordinator, and a clinical professor at Rutgers University.
Barbara, you have been described as a consummate professional nurse who embodies exceptional clinical skills, care and compassion for every patient and family member. During your deployment in Afghanistan you included Iraqi nurses, medics and physicians in basic trauma and emergency education. You also defined the new role of an emergency nurse in aeromedical transport. You never say no and have inspired many nurses through mentoring and support.
Quality, Safety and Injury Prevention
Jennifer Leaman
ED Geriatric-Palliative Nurse Navigator at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Your peers have recognized you for your involvement in safety and injury programs at St Joseph’s Health ED since 2016. As an active member of the NICHE program you advocate daily for palliative and hospice patients. You are recognized for your collaboration with the Health Care Coalition of Passaic County, National Council of Aging and participation in Boston on the delirium expert work group on how a family’s perspective of delirium effects on daily lifestyle.
APN Award
Tony Malek
ED Advance Practice Nurse at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
Your peers have described you as a warm and caring bedside advance practice nurse who is an exceptional team player and strong patient advocate. Tony includes everyone on the care team in the patient plan of care. His humility, wisdom and compassion combined with his passion for high-quality and unwillingness to settle for less as a nurse make him a complete force that is truly appreciated in the ED.
Chapter Award
Northern New Jersey Chapter—Kim Russo, 2019 Chapter President
Northern Chapter is being recognized for implementation of creative solutions which have been successful over the past few years with increasing member involvement in chapter events.
Team Award
St. Joseph’s Health ALTO Team
This multidisciplinary team worked to create Alternatives to Opioid use in the ED. Comprehensive clinical practice guidelines enabled the ED to use many different approaches to control pain reducing ED opioid use by over 80%! The team created important partnerships with community organizations to promote OORP (Outpatient Opioid Recovery Programs) for patients with Opioid Use Disorder. This team developed MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment) in the ED for buprenorphine treatment along with a Naloxone outreach program. The nationally recognized ALTO team is leading the education of Opioid Reduction Options in partnership with NJHA.
President’s Awards
Presented by Jessica Trivett, 2019 NJENA President
Catherine and Richard Trivett (pictured on left)
Patricia Nierstedt
Elizabeth Mizerek
Congratulations to all of this years nominees and award recipients! To receive an award is not only a remarkable achievement, it also speaks to the respect that you have earned from your peers and of your dedication to your patients and fellow emergency nurses.
Check back in January for 2022 Professional Development Awards applications!
NJENA Past Award Winners
2021 Awards
Clinical Leadership - Amy Casteline
Nursing Education - Patricia Nierstedt
Nursing Practice and Professionalism - Barbara McCormick
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention - Jennifer Leaman
APN Award - Tony Malek
Chapter Award - Northern New Jersey Chapter / Kim Russo - 2019 Chapter President
Team - St Joseph’s Health ALTO Team
President’s Award:
Catherine and Richard Trivett
2020 Awards
Clinical Leadership - Amy Casteline
Nursing Education - Patricia Nierstedt
Nursing Practice and Professionalism - Barbara McCormick
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention - Jennifer Leaman
APN Award - Tony Malek
Chapter Award - Northern New Jersey Chapter / Kim Russo - 2019 Chapter President
Team - St Joseph’s Health ALTO Team
President’s Award:
Catherine and Richard Trivett
2019 Awards
Clinical Nurse Leadership - Mercedittas Mallari
Nursing Education - Lisa Winchester
Nursing Practice and Professionalism - Jeri Ennis
Quality Safety and Injury Prevention - Martina Skibola
Rising Star - Jamie Bohn
Team - Atlantic Mobile Health
President’s Award:
Emily Braun
2018 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Emilia Wawszczyk
Clinical Leadership - Victoria Soque
Education - Bobbi-Jean Plummer
Practice and Professionalism - Kathy Findlay
Quality, Safety & Injury Prevention - Beth Quraishi
Research - Dr. Mary Kamienski
Rising Star - Christine Gallego
Team Award - St Joseph’s Observation Unit
President’s Award:
Lisa Winchester
Bill Miller
Gust Bages
Jackie Wagner
Heather Linsalata
Dan Misa
Kim Russo
Tracey Scaletti
Anthony Angelow
Elizabeth McFarland
2017 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Ramazan Bahar
Clinical Leadership - Ana M Gehan
Education - Anthony Filippelli
Practice and Professionalism - Katherine Ann Gabin
Quality, Safety & Injury Prevention - Sharon Pineda
Research - Dr. Mary Kamienski
Rising Star - Kimberly Russo
Team Award - St Joseph’s Geriatric ED
President’s Award:
Jessica Trivett
2016 Awards
Behind the Scenes - Daniel Misa
Clinical Excellence - Susan Guilliams and Kimberly Russo
Competence in Aging - Richard Schultz
Educator - Cathlyn Robinson
Professionalism - Tracy Scaletti
Quality & Safety - Eva Rojas
Research - Elizabeth Mizerek
Rising Star - Heather Linsalata
President’s Award:
Bebe Greenberg
2015 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Anthony Angelow
Clinical Excellence - Joleen Ruth
Educator - Dawn Specht
Innovations in Nursing - Noreen Occhipinti
Quality & Safety - Margaret Thornton
Team - NJENA Southern Consortium
President’s Award:
Kelly Mcfarland
2014 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Gwyn Parris-Atwell
Behind the Scenes - Karen Halupke
Clinical Excellence - Debora LaTorre
Educator - Ray Bennett
Innovations in Nursing - Mary Kamienski
Quality & Safety - New Jersey Hospital Association
Rising Star - Sean Varricchio
Spirit - Bill Miller
President’s Award:
Patricia Nierstedt
Beth Macfarland
2013 Awards
Advanced Practice Nursing - Mary Strauss
Behind the Scenes - Fred Fitchett
Clinical Excellence - Beth Manganaro
Educator - Jude Lark
Fundraising - Jackie Wynkoop
Leadership - Deb Cioffi
Rising Star - Daniel Misa
Team - Overlook ED
Vendor Support - Dan Smith - Vidacare
President’s Award:
Robyn Nierstedt
Barbara Conicello
Tim Murphy
Jeanette Ash Lifetime Achievement Award:
Jim Hoelz
Featured
42ND annual
emergency care conference
Save the Date: March 18-20, 2020
Registration and Exhibits opens soon!
2019 State challenge
In 2019, NJENA raised over $18,000 for Emergency Nursing Scholarships. Our goal for 2020 is $20,000! Stay tuned for more information. The 2020 State Challenges kicks off on January 23, 2020.
Professional development awards
Do you know an emerging professional in the ENA? How about the best RN Team in the state? Is your educator amazing? These are just a few of the 2020 NJENA Professional Development awards, Nominate someone today!