Mount Sinai South Nassau Celebrates, Honors Its Nurses at Annual National Nurses Week Kickoff Breakfast
Margaret Hempstead, RN, Receives 2023 Daisy Lifetime Achievement Award for 44-Year Nursing Career
Posted: May. 5, 2023
Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Conference Center was packed from wall to wall and seat to seat this morning as the hospital joined by family and friends and state and local elected public officials gathered to recognize, honor and thank the members of its’ nursing staff at the hospital’s Annual National Nurses Week Kickoff Breakfast celebration.
The uplifting and spirited celebration included the presentation of the 2023 Daisy Lifetime Achievement Award to Margaret Hempstead, RN, Nurse Manager of Intravenous Therapy, and the 2023 Daisy Leader Award to Lynn Bert, RN, NP, Nurse Manager of Pediatrics. Other significant highlights included the recognition of Gretchen Kretkowski, RN, Labor & Delivery, who was Mount Sinai South Nassau’s nominee for the 2023 Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council Nurse of Excellence Award; the awarding of the 2023 Daisy Team Award to the hospital’s Wound Care; a commemorative graduation ceremony for nurse staff members who recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or higher degree; awards presentations to nurse staff members for clinical, service and quality excellence, and special recognition of nurses with 20 and 25 years of service.
Ms. Hempstead received the Daisy Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of her 44-years dedication nursing through active mentoring, role modeling, advocating for their patients and promoting the positive image of nursing, while Ms. Bert received the Daisy Nurse Leader Award in recognition of her enduring and trademark work to support staff in their mission and vision to provide standard-setting, compassionate, skilled care for patients and their families.