Greetings,
The 2017 Restoring Joy Award recognizes nurses who add JOY to the work environment. Nurses from a variety of organizations were nominated for this award. Through this process, I hope to promote a focus on Joy in the work environment. Research recognizes the benefits of Joy in the workplace and its link to patient safety and satisfaction. Enjoyment is the spark that ignites passion and enthusiasm. Joy is about recognizing that you are not how you feel. Joy is a state of the heart, an attitude of the mind and a condition of the will. The 2017 Restoring Joy Award winners are intentional in their efforts to add JOY to the work environment. In spite of the whirlwind, these nurses manage to brighten their environment with the light of a joyful heart! Award recipients will be featured on the Restoring Joy to Leadership website in the near future as well as other media avenues. Award recipients receive complimentary registration to the 2017 Restore Joy Now conference as a way to promote strength for their continued journey.
Please join me in congratulating the 2017 Restoring Joy Award Recipients:
Carrie Hallock, Get Well Network
Delia Card, UF Health, Jacksonville
Ileana Martinez, UF Health, Jacksonville
Julia (Vickie) Norris, UF Health, Jacksonville
Kizzy McCray-Sheppard, Malcom Randall VAMC
Missy Reynolds, UF Health, Gainesville
Paige Coggin, UF Health, Jacksonville
Sharita Gaither, NF/SG Veterans Health System
Stephannie Renee Cooper, NC Recovery Services
Tawana Brown, UF Health, Jacksonville
We congratulate and recognize all those who were nominated by their peers or colleagues for this award. We thank you for being a source of Joy for your colleagues and patients and hope you continue this legacy.
The 2017 (eligible) Joy Award Nominees are:
Brittany Swann, UF Health, Jacksonville
Carrie Hallock, Get Well Network
Courtney Sweeting, UF Health, Jacksonville
Delia Card, UF Health, Jacksonville
Ileana Martinez, UF Health, Jacksonville
Ileana Martinez, UF Health, Jacksonville
Josh Campbell, UF Health, Gainesville
Julia (Vickie) Norris, UF Health, Jacksonville
Kizzy McCray-Sheppard, Malcom Randall VAMC
Leanne Jones, UF Health, Gainesville
Lillie Goshay, UF Health, Jacksonville
Melissa Kapp, UF Health, Gainesville
Missy Reynolds, UF Health, Gainesville
Myriam Alexander, Florida Cardiology Associates of Ocala
Paige Coggin, UF Health, Jacksonville
Paula Johns, UF Health, Gainesville
Priscilla Pettrey, UF Health, Gainesville
Sebastian Webbe, UF Health, Jacksonville
Sharita Gaither, NF/SG Veterans Health System
Stephannie Renee Cooper, NC Recovery Services
Tawana Brown, UF Health, Jacksonville
Valerie Platt, UF Health, Jacksonville
All of the nominations were heartfelt which made it quite difficult to select only 10 award
recipients. The Award Recipients were selected by a subgroup of Restoring Joy to Leadership Advisors.
It is my hope to one day be able to provide all Joy Award Nominees with complimentary registration to
the annual Restore Joy Now Conference.
A special thank you to those who took the time to nominate a joyful nurse!
Good evening Dr. Rivers, and Dr. M. Sherman, I was so surprised to know that I was consider for your Restortibg Joy Award. I am only returning some of the Joy rhat the Lird God gices to me. I believe that, and the word of God says that the Joy of the Lord is ny strength. Working with people and raising children requires the love if God. There is no way you can be effective and take proper care of anyone or anything without joy and God in your heart. I can not and will not take a chance on losing God ‘s love or blessing.
Special thanks to Dr. Myra Sherman who nominated me for the Restoring Joy Award, and to rhe committed for their considerate. I tell people alk the time that God himself made me a nurse. That there is nothing that I have done. The one thing that I remember asking God for in my life. That is to keep me with my Joy. This is where my Strength comes from the Lord. Taking care of others is apart of my Joy and without Joy i can’t give the the proper care they need, without Joy we are unable to look past the wrong and see the Good that’s in others or ourselves. So asking God said Lean not to your Own understanding, Trust in the Lord with My whole heart mind body and soul . This is where My Joy comes from. AGAIN I THANK YOU AND THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
shirley Youmans, LPN
Reddick Church of God