Marge Vortherms, Fulda, was awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Hass Excellence in Practice Award at the Minnesota Nurses Association 2016 Honors and Awards Ceremony held on Monday, October 10th at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Bloomington, MN.
The Ruth L. Hass Excellence in Practice Award is awarded annually to a nurse who has been involved in direct nursing care who has demonstrated expert knowledge and practice in a selected clinical area of nursing and is recognized by his or her peers as a role model of sustained, consistent, high quality nursing practice.
Vortherms, who retired in July of this year, was a nurse at Sanford Worthington Medical Center, formerly known as Worthington Regional Hospital, for forty years.
She began working in 1975 as a registered nurse on the first floor medical surgery extended care unit. She was the head nurse on that floor.
“When our second son, Matt, arrived, my schedule on first floor didn’t work well with our family. Mike was on-call with his job quite a bit and we wanted one of us with Mark and Matt, so I began working in the Dialysis Unit. The hours were 5 a.m. to 6 p.m., and worked well for our family,” Vortherms said. She was a Dialysis Unit nurse for 28 years, which requires being knowledgeable about electrolytes, waste products, fluid removal, monthly lab values, blood samples, and being sure that each individual patient is made to feel valued and unique.
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