Hesta Nurse of the year awards
onemargie
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Here is the post about the Hesta awards and the link
it’s always nice to be recognised for a job well done. Us nurses never expect it as its as a job you do for love and not money or awards but it’s humbling and an honour when you do get an award such as that. So good job Riki.
I was nominated for the Hesta nurse of the year awards in 2015 and I received a certificate for that nomination which I still.display at work even though it’s just a nomination!. I’ve been back working for 12 months now and I love nursing more than ever and I think having breast cancer has made me a better nurse to be honest. It raised my awareness of several important issues like wait times for recon in qld, the fact that recon surgery is classed as elective, the ridiculous restrictions on trying to access your superannuation when you’ve been diagnosed with a life threatening illness, not being able to access a Centrelink benefit of any kind if you have a partner that works as the thresholds are just ridiculous (less than the minimum wage) I had to research myself what local bc support groups are in my local area and where to access the local look good feel better program for example as well as other online resources such as the BCNA and I’ve been able to pass this info onto my patients and other bc survivors as I wasn’t lucky enough to have a good bc nurse to advise me of these services.
It’s made me passionate about advocating for bc survivors by writing to and meeting with politicians to raise these issues and I was even interviewed by channel 10 news about the wait times thanks to the BCNA and I will continue to bitch moan and complain to try and get these things changed if I can. So whatever I can do to bring awareness for these issues that are important to me and other bc survivors I’ll do my best to do.
the one and probably only nomination certificate I do have or will ever get probably lol I treasure it’s like an Oscar to me!! I’m nominating someone for this years awards and if there’s a nurse any of you would like to nominate perhaps your breast care or oncology nurse or even Riki then just go to the Link below there’s so many great nurses out there we all speak so highly on here about that take care of us (except for me my bc nurse who was bloody awful) and you never know the one you nominate might win how cool would that be or they can just hang their nomination certificate up like I have and be proud to just simply be one.
And RIki thank you for your compassion and kindness the two most important qualities you need to have to be a nurse as far as I’m concerned these are obviously the things that have contributed to your member of the month award so congratulations to you again.
it’s always nice to be recognised for a job well done. Us nurses never expect it as its as a job you do for love and not money or awards but it’s humbling and an honour when you do get an award such as that. So good job Riki.
I was nominated for the Hesta nurse of the year awards in 2015 and I received a certificate for that nomination which I still.display at work even though it’s just a nomination!. I’ve been back working for 12 months now and I love nursing more than ever and I think having breast cancer has made me a better nurse to be honest. It raised my awareness of several important issues like wait times for recon in qld, the fact that recon surgery is classed as elective, the ridiculous restrictions on trying to access your superannuation when you’ve been diagnosed with a life threatening illness, not being able to access a Centrelink benefit of any kind if you have a partner that works as the thresholds are just ridiculous (less than the minimum wage) I had to research myself what local bc support groups are in my local area and where to access the local look good feel better program for example as well as other online resources such as the BCNA and I’ve been able to pass this info onto my patients and other bc survivors as I wasn’t lucky enough to have a good bc nurse to advise me of these services.
It’s made me passionate about advocating for bc survivors by writing to and meeting with politicians to raise these issues and I was even interviewed by channel 10 news about the wait times thanks to the BCNA and I will continue to bitch moan and complain to try and get these things changed if I can. So whatever I can do to bring awareness for these issues that are important to me and other bc survivors I’ll do my best to do.
the one and probably only nomination certificate I do have or will ever get probably lol I treasure it’s like an Oscar to me!! I’m nominating someone for this years awards and if there’s a nurse any of you would like to nominate perhaps your breast care or oncology nurse or even Riki then just go to the Link below there’s so many great nurses out there we all speak so highly on here about that take care of us (except for me my bc nurse who was bloody awful) and you never know the one you nominate might win how cool would that be or they can just hang their nomination certificate up like I have and be proud to just simply be one.
And RIki thank you for your compassion and kindness the two most important qualities you need to have to be a nurse as far as I’m concerned these are obviously the things that have contributed to your member of the month award so congratulations to you again.
https://www.hesta.com.au/awards/nursing-midwifery-awards/nomination-tc-nursing-awards.html
Hope there are some awesome breast care or oncol nurses that have taken such good care of you that you might like to nominate them or Nominations close February 23rd. Margie. Xx
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Great post. I received a nomination and won an employee of the year once. It was lovely to be recognised. So sad in that same job I ended up leaving due to ridiculous work loads and bullying 7 years later. Times do change. And I agree, as a nurse we just get on with our jobs but it is lovely when people recognise that you are often working well above expectations (and pay grade)1
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It does not matter what type of career one has, it is always nice for others to recognize anything that is done well. Many people love to criticize or dob in a bad worker but often people simply don't bother to say ''thanks''. Me ? I am always careful to thank helpful shop assistants and take my dirty dishes back to help the waiter if I have enjoyed the service and meal.
If I am super surprised about good service of any sort I will even send a ''thank you'' card (as many of us did after our treatments) and make sure their supervisor is aware of our satisfaction.1
