Spotlight Award Winner

2016 Spotlight Award Winner (Q1) Anja Glassner, BSN, RN, CPN Anja Glassner was nominated last quarter for the Spotlight Award. Anja works on the surgical ward at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. She is known to be a strong nurse that advocates for her patients. She enjoys being a nurse to the fullest. There have been many…

2017 Spotlight Award Winner (Q1) Tonya Stafford, BSN, RN, CPN Tonya is a Clinical Nurse on the Pediatric Surgery & Trauma floor at UNC Chapel Hill. She is a member of the pediatric family advisory board, validator for pediatric competencies, frequent preceptors, retention and recruitment committee, and was voted Children’s Service Nurse of the Year…

2018 Spotlight Award Winner (Q4) Xoana Zampieri, BSN, RN, WCC, CPN Rebekah Barrette MS, RN, PCNS-BC, WCC and Xoana Zampieri BSN, RN, WCC, CPN were approached by the APSNA ECAG and were asked to revise the Ostomy web pages on the APSNA website. They were both previous Foster Grant winners. They conducted a thorough literature…

2018 Spotlight Award Winner (Q3) Rebekah Barrette, MS, RN, PCNS-BC, WCC Rebekah Barrette MS, RN, PCNS-BC, WCC and Xoana Zampieri BSN, RN, WCC, CPN were approached by the APSNA ECAG and were asked to revise the Ostomy web pages on the APSNA website. They were both previous Foster Grant winners. They conducted a thorough literature…

2020 Spotlight Award Winner (Q3) Brigitte Staum, MSN, BC-FNP Brigitte Staum, MSN, BC-FNP, is a Nurse Practitioner in the Pediatric Surgery Division at Maimonides Medical Center. Although the newest NP on the service she advocates for her patients and their families and enjoys her new role in the Division. Brigitte is bilingual in both English…

2020 Spotlight Award Winner (Q4) Rachel E. Nettle, APRN While fulfilling her responsibilities at the University of Florida, during this unprecedented time of a global pandemic, Ms. Nettle developed a new patient and teaching information sheet for APSNA on abscess diagnosis and management. As a common diagnosis that is frequently encountered by pediatric surgery providers,…

2021 Spotlight Award Winner (Q3) Janelle Sherman, MSN, RN, CPN Janelle Sherman MSM, RN, CPN is employed full time as a pediatric surgery nurse coordinator at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. Janelle has been an active member of the Program Committee for many years. She attends all meetings and recruits speakers & abstracts for…

2022 Spotlight Award Winner (Q1) Kim McHard, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC Kim McHard, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC is employed at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is active with the Chest Wall Anomaly Program, the Department of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, and is the manager of the Office of Advanced Practice for General Surgery, Foster…

2022 Spotlight Award Winner (Q3) Alicia McIntire, MSN, CPNP-PC Alicia McIntire, MSN CPNP-PC is employed at the Oregon Health & Science University Hospital [OHSU] in Portland, Oregon. As a long-standing member of APSNA, since 2017, Alicia has volunteered during unprecedented times of COVID and contributed her work in the Program Committee, helping to create APSNA’s…

2023 Spotlight Award Winner (Q2) Janet Kimble, RN, CPN Janet Kimble, RN, CPN has served APSNA over the last year and a half by attending virtual meetings on a committee looking at standardizing practice when changing gastrostomy tubes. She has diligently reported the committee’s work to our ECAG group and kept us apprised of the…