Akron Children’s Leah Rawdon, DNP, APRN-CNP, received the 2024 Magnet Nurse of the Year Award in Empirical Outcomes from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Leah was among five nurses nationwide selected to receive this prestigious award, which recognizes the outstanding contributions of clinical nurses in each of the five Magnet Model components: transformational leadership, […]
Trevor Clark named Magnet Nurse of the Year
Congratulations to Trevor Clark, certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), this year’s Akron Children’s Magnet Nurse of the Year honoree. While in high school, Trevor had a unique opportunity at Akron Children’s that helped cement his future career. “My mother worked at Children’s for 35 years as a surgical technician,” he said. “She got me the […]
Fran Feesler named Magnet Nurse of the Year
Although she was recently named Akron Children’s Magnet Nurse of the Year for exemplifying excellence in professional practice, Fran Feesler, MSN, APRN, FNP, an advanced practice provider (APP) in the Heart Center, didn’t initially plan to become a nurse. “I have a degree in elementary education, but in the early ‘90s teaching jobs were scarce,” […]
