Andrea Olney, a nurse in the JGH Apheresis Clinic, has received the prestigious Nursing
Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of Apheresis Nurses (CAAN).
At a reception in her honour in the hospital on October 17, Ms. Olney accepted the award
from her supervisor, Jessica Pinto, Head Nurse of the JGH Apheresis Clinic and Unit
Chief of the Medical Day Hospital.
Apheresis is the process of removing blood from the body and passing it through a device
that extracts a particular component and then returns the remainder of the blood to the
body. This is done to obtain specific constituents of the blood that are essential in treating
many serious medical conditions.
The CAAN certificate states that Ms. Olney has earned the award for her “nursing
excellence in patient care and clinical practice, demonstrated through a commitment to
continued education in apheresis and exceptional collaboration with the allied healthcare
team.”
There’s more about Ms. Olney in this article in JGH News.