2) Advance Practice Nurses (APNs):

Cherokee Uniforms, a leading provider of healthcare apparel, announced the winners of its 11th annual Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award. The award honor#

- Grand Prize - Romeatrius Moss - RN, MSN, APHN-BC, DNP, United States Air Force, Hurlburt Field, FL

 

Romeatrius Moss is the Health Care Integrator and Disease Manager with the 1st Special Operations Medical Group at Hurlburt Field Air Force Base in Florida. 

She founded the Mississippi Gulf Coast Black Nurse Association (MGCBNA) and established the Mississippi Gulf Coast chapter of the Medical Reserve Corps, which focuses on improving the health and safety of local communities while helping to prepare for and respond to public health and medical emergencies. 

 

Since Moss founded the MGCBNA in 2008, she has mentored more than 500 nurses and impacted more than 200,000 coastal residents through education and healthcare services. She has created and implemented 20 programs for the association, including HIV/AIDS prevention programs and a teen pregnancy-reduction program for female African-American students in fourth through eleventh grades. In 2012 alone, she donated more than 1,200 hours to the communities that she serves.

 

- National Prize - Bill Legere, FNP, ACNP, Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, ME

After the tragic death of his daughter, Grace, in 1993, Bill Legere, a family nurse practitioner at Central Maine Medical Center, became a fierce advocate for at-risk children – in Maine and around the world. Legere started the non-profit Foundation of Hope and Grace to serve as a voice for at-risk women and children, especially victims of child abuse, domestic violence and human trafficking. 

 

The foundation partners with like-minded organizations around the world to protect, educate and nurture. Legere also co-founded the Not Here Justice in Action Network to elevate the awareness of human trafficking and exploitation in his home state of Maine and to facilitate a collaborative safety net for women and children among law enforcement, social service agencies, educators, healthcare workers and the faith community.

 

3) Student Nurse:

- Grand Prize - Maggie Knight, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

As a nursing student, Maggie Knight demonstrated an unwavering commitment to care for those in need. Serving as the president or co-chair of four charitable campus groups, Knight volunteered more than 350 hours over the past year, in addition to raising funds to support families during the holidays.