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Dana Camut, RN, Honored With
Small gestures of caring and compassion epitomizes the type of nursing practiced by Dana Camut, RN. Those gestures add up. They resulted in choosing Dana as the Monongahela Valley Hospital (MVH) representative for the Cameos of Caring® award and who, as a result, will be honored at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing’s 12th annual Cameos of Caring® Awards Gala on Saturday, November 6 in the Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. More than 1,200 guests are expected to attend the event. Jackie Ingram, Dana’s unit clerk, was one of a number of people who nominated Dana for the award. She said, “If God's plan for me would have been to be a nurse, I would want to be just like Dana Camut, RN. Jackie mentioned that she recently watched Dana comfort a young girl and her parents who were so distraught over the child’s illness. Dana immediately calmed the girl and her parents and Jackie remarked that she does that like no other. Theresa L. Piekut, MSN, RNC-OB, Professor of Nursing at CCAC South Campus, said, “Dana has been a mentor for students for the past eight years and always provides an exceptional mentorship experience. She is very tuned in to the needs of the students and personally tailors a plan to meet their needs. She is outstanding in her role as a nurse.” Mary Lou Murt, RN, Senior Vice President for Nursing at MVH, agreed. “Dana was chosen for her commitment to the nursing profession and to her patients, as well as her exceptional kindness,” she said. Murt specifically cited Camut’s participation in the CCAC Mentoring program, her leadership in shadowing experiences for Waynesburg University Nursing Students and her orientation role in acclimating newly hired nurses to the Coronary Care Unit. Amy Norfleet, RN, Camut's supervisor, praised her attentiveness to patients' families and noted that she is “known for nursing from the heart”. “She even makes every attempt to tuck her patients in at night during her evening rounds,” Norfleet said. Camut is a 1983 graduate of West Penn School of Nursing and received her BS in Nursing from Pace University in New York city in 1989. She joined the MVH Nursing Team fifteen years ago bringing eleven years of intensive and coronary care clinical experience to the position. "Community is important. Working here at MVH and living in Charleroi is important to me,” Camut said. “My commitment to Monongahela Valley Hospital is also a commitment to the community residents. People may never know when they will need inpatient hospital care, but, if they do, I want the best care possible for them close to our home. I enjoy caring for people I know.” "You reach a point in your career where you want to be the best at what you do and I am very proud to be recognized with this honor,” she said. “But, I don’t do it alone. I work with a great staff and a compassionate group of nurses. They are the perfect combination of energy, experience and maturity and my success is the result of their hard work.” Camut’s participation in the Cameos of Caring program was sponsored by the Golomb Education Endowment, the MVH Medical Staff and the Hospital. Other MVH nominees for Cameos of Caring recognition this year were:
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