New York Methodist Hospital honors Registered Nurses at annual RN Dinner
On Nov. 5, New York Methodist Hospital (NYM) held its 23rd Registered Nurses Dinner, an annual event devoted to recognizing the hundreds of men and women who serve NYM as registered nurses. Each year, the Registered Nurses Dinner gives NYM’s nursing administration the opportunity to recognize individual registered nurses and their units through the presentation of “Flo Awards,” which are named after Florence Nightingale, the progenitor of modern nursing.
“This is one of my favorite nights of the year,” said Rebecca Flood, RN, senior vice president for nursing. “You may be a nurse manager, a case manager, a staff nurse — if you have that ‘RN’ after your name, it means that you are part of the fabric of any hospital.”
For 2015, the chief honor of the evening, the Florence Nightingale Award, went to Michele Thomas, RN, senior staff nurse in New York Methodist’s Intensive Care Unit. Thomas, who currently resides in Midwood, first came to NYM in 1981 and worked as a licensed practical nurse while also attending nursing school at Long Island University.