LI Top Nurses Recognized

Long Island Nurses Recognized for Excellence

NYU Winthrop Hospital Nurse/ Seaford, NY Resident Takes Top Honor

HAUPPUAGE, N.Y. (May 25, 2018) – Nurse leaders from Long Island’s hospitals and nursing education programs gathered Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at the Woodbury Country Club to bestow recognition upon their nurse peers at the Nurse of Excellence Award Ceremony hosted by the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC). One nurse from each of the Hospital Council’s member hospitals was nominated for the award, which recognizes outstanding leadership and clinical practice. Deans of area nursing schools also submitted nominations recognizing nursing excellence in education and clinical practice.

Seaford resident Lila Hageman-Sheehan RN, Nurse Manager, Emergency Department, at NYU Winthrop Hospital, rose above a field of 27 nominees. Those nominees were selected from a field of about 500 nurses at hospitals and teaching institutions from across Long Island.

Hageman-Sheehan brings an unprecedented enthusiasm to her job and to her team. Drawn to emergency medicine because of the difference she could make in people’s lives in a short time, she extends her nursing skills beyond the ED to include volunteer work in the community near and far. She is a volunteer for the Nassau County Medical Reserve Corps and has provided medical support for the Special Olympics program and the Long Island Marathon. And for her emergency room colleagues who were treating victims of the Las Vegas shooting last year, she organized an effort among her hospital peers to send nourishment and encouragement to the overwhelmed staff. She also used that tragic event as a teachable moment in Winthrop’s ED to review and improve incident response. Hageman-Sheehan is an instructor for the American College of Surgeons program “Stop the Bleed,” which teaches lay persons how to administer basic medical care until the arrival of a medical team. She is currently leading the effort at her hospital to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) program.

The Hospital Council’s annual salute to nurses is fashioned after the New York State Legislature’s Nurse of Distinction Program that ended in 1995. NSHC is one of the few hospital associations in the state to continue this program voluntarily. It is now in its 23nd year. The NSHC represents Long Island’s not-for-profit and public hospitals.

For more information about this program and a full listing of nominees, visit www.nshc.org.

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