ACHIEVEMENTS
Organizations applaud staff for pandemic responses Bryan Health received the annual Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Cornerstone Award for helping guide the city through the stages of the pandemic. This award recognizes the business or organization that best demonstrates leadership, and it recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit of those who take risks and invest time and resources to grow Lincoln. The Lincoln Friends Optimist Club presented all of Bryan’s nurses with the group’s annual Community Service Award, in recognition of the care givers’ work during the COVID pandemic. The Intensive Care Unit staff at Bryan West Campus received this year’s Team DAISY Award. The award’s nomination notes the unit deserves recognition for its display of empathy and compassion for a patient and family, whicht encompassed Bryan’s core values. This patient was in the ICU for about 70 days, suffering from the effects of COVID. “He had a personality that drew him to our hearts,” the nomination states. “We were his cheerleaders, although many times we came out of his room feeling a lift from him. His passing was traumatic, but it was heart warming to realize how many have been positively affected by this patient.” The ICU staff at Bryan East Campus also was nominated for an Excellence in Human Underderstanding Award from NRC Health. Read an inspiring story at nrchealth.com/bryan-health- recognized-for-their-excellence. n
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Sue Kaltenberger, RN This year’s Team DAISY Award went to the Intensive Care Unit staff at Bryan West Campus.
Neuroscience nurse manager Nicole Babst, Ashton Gerken, RN, and Brittany Solorzano Romero, RN, accepted the Community Service Award from Lincoln Friends Optimist Club representative Angela Driver on behalf of all Bryan nurses who care for COVID patients.
Kaltenberger wins DAISY award Presurgical and post anesthesia care unit nurse manager Sue Kaltenberger, RN, received this year’s DAISY Leader Award. Her nominators enthusiastically endorse her. “She’s an amazing leader,” one writes. “The timeliness of her follow through is the best I have experienced in my 39 years at Bryan. She listens without reacting, then, taking all things into account, shares her response and the reasoning behind it. She is accessible to staff and encourages critical thinking and challenges us to strive for excellence.” Another adds, “When you have a project to undertake, you are grateful for her presence, manner and leadership. Sue is the leader that others want to be like, and she promotes Bryan in our community through volunteering and mentoring students.” n
