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Michele Huebner, R.N.
Oncology, Community Hospital

Michele Huebner, R.N. has worked in the Oncology Unit at Community Hospital for 22 years and before that, at St. Catherine Hospital for four years. While her work is difficult at times and emotionally stressing, she says the effort is rewarding and the patients are "wonderful."

"I've never found more appreciative patients," Michele says. "I've always wanted to be a nurse. I love to care for our patients. I want to be there to help these patients through some of the hardest times of their lives." To get to Community and her patients, Michele continues to drive a long commute from her home in Grovertown, Indiana, passing other hospitals along the way.

In recognition of her hard work and dedication, Michele Huebner, RN, was selected by her peers on the nursing staff as the 2010 Nursing Excellence Award recipient. Nominations are based upon excellence in daily care.

On the award nomination form a co-worker explains, "My father was an Oncology patient. All the staff was great, but Michele had that special something. I didn't notice until I was on the flip side as a visitor to my dad. Michele was excellent from the time she introduced herself to my family to telling us about herself as a nurse, and by making my father's needs and wants a priority. You never know the 'wow' factor until you are on the other side looking in, and she wowed us with her extra special qualities."

Michele has set the bar high in terms of providing quality care and as an example for others to follow. Many have followed her lead, including Debbie Kolosh, Oncology nurse manager:

Michele cared for my mother before she passed away. It was Michele and the many other staff members on Oncology who brought me here a year later after working in another hospital for 31 years. I was so impressed with my mother's care and everything Community Hospital offered Oncology patients. Oncology was looked at as a specialty with much better nursing standards to care for both patients and family members. It was actually Michele who I also remembered so vividly also due to the rapport she had with my mother and my family.

 

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