Published on: February 19, 2016 | Last Updated: February 19, 2016 9:02 PM EST
Lois Fairley, a nurse at Grace
Hospital from 1954 to 1993, is pictured in this handout photo. Each year
in Windsor-Essex, an outstanding nurse is awarded the Lois Fairley
Nursing Award.Handout / Windsor Star
Nominations are now being accepted for the ninth annual Lois
Fairley Nursing Award, which honours outstanding nurses in Windsor and
Essex County.
Presented by the Windsor-Essex chapter of the Registered Nurses’
Association of Ontario, nominations are received from the community.
If you a know a nurse who has made an impact in their workplace or in
the lives of a patient or family member, nominate them by writing your
story in 500 words or less.
For more information or to access the nomination form, visit www.windsoressexrnao.org.
Deadline for the entries is 5 p.m. on April 1.
The award is named in honour of Lois Fairley, a Registered Nurse who
started and finished her 38 year nursing career at Grace Hospital in
Windsor from 1955 to 1993.
Fairley died in 2007 and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario established the award in 2008.
Last year’s winner was Rita DiBiase.
Rita Di Biase, left, is presented with the 2015 Registered Nurses
Association of Ontario, Windsor-Essex Lois A. Fairley Nursing Award by
Dana Boyd and last years winner Ava Lewis at the Leamington Hospital on
Wednesday, April 22, 2015.Tyler Brownbridge /
Windsor Star
