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Holy Innocents' Nurse Honored Nationally
Holy Innocents' Episcopal School's Nurse Tammy Green is the 2015 Outstanding Private and Parochial School Nurse of the Year.
Families at Holy Innocents’ Episocopal School know what a special caregiver they have in Lower and Middle School Nurse Tammy Green. Now the rest of the country does, too. The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) has named Nurse Green as the 2015 Outstanding Private and Parochial School Nurse of the Year!
The award is given by NASN to an individual who goes above and beyond to build a safe and healthy school environment, utilizes the most current research and resources, and displays effective leadership in his or her role. The organization’s stated mission is, “To advance school nurse practice to keep students healthy, safe, and ready to learn.”
Since she joined Holy Innocents’ in 1999, Nurse Green has done all this and more.
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“Tammy is a consummate professional and the guardian of all our kids – not just our Type 1 diabetic community, of which she is a treasured member,” says HIES parent, Jill Kampfe, the mother of a Type 1 student. “Because of her, our children have a mentor, a watchdog, and a compassionate friend. In our minds, Tammy sets the bar and hangs the moon.”
At first, Nurse Green had no desire to submit her name for consideration. “A colleague of mine from Santa Fe, NM, nominated me for the award,” she says. “But that created a lot of work for me, since there were all sorts of forms and program descriptions that needed to be filled out. So I told her, ‘I really don’t have time for this!’ But she just insisted—so I made the time. I couldn’t believe it when I heard I’d won!”
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Nurse Green received both her associate and baccalaureate degrees in nursing from Kennesaw State University (KSU), and her Master of Science degree in nursing from Jacksonville University. Besides her work at HIES, she also works as a part-time Clinical Faculty member at KSU, helps with a number of medical and nursing research projects throughout the country, and has published numerous articles in NASN communications.
She will receive her formal award at the NASN convention this June in Philadelphia.
