2010 Founders Award Winner

Linda Haga has worked at Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) for over 30 years. Linda spent the majority of her years working in the Department of Surgery seeing inpatients and being in charge of the outpatient clinic. One colleague described Linda as “the surgery nurse” as nurses throughout the hospital would call on her for her clinical expertise and knowledge base. Linda was described as the “nurse that taught the physician group the clinical skills necessary to work in this subspecialty”. If a complex clinical situation would occur physicians would often say “let’s ask Linda”. Linda was also known to be “in charge” of the Pediatric Surgical Clinic assisting all the pediatric general surgeons. Linda was a charter member of the APSNA organization and throughout the years served on many committees; elected to be Secretary, Information Systems Chair and President of APSNA in 2006. Linda Haga retired in February 2010 after a long and distinguished career. Linda valued the APSNA mission and vision and upon retiring she was able to recruit more than 40 new members to the organization to help continue her goals.