April 2020
Sarah
Craig
,
PhD, RN, CCNS, CCRN-K, CHSE
UVA School of Nursing
Charlottesville
,
VA
United States
Sarah Craig demonstrates compassion through teaching, leadership, and the clinical role within the traits of Assistant Professor of Nursing. She inspires morale, demonstrates kindness and trustworthiness to students, peers, and colleagues. She is honest and dependable, compassionate and generous, self-controlled, and rule-abiding. Sarah inspires, embracing the heart of nursing not only by being a brilliant and talented nurse educator but by being vulnerable to the learners and allowing vulnerability to show up in her instruction. The heart of nursing and teaching nursing to nursing students is to be vulnerable while demonstrating salience. Sarah is resilient in the possibility of improving. Sarah demonstrates the ability to realize her aim for the student nurse and for the client they will care for by preserving her sense of self. She works towards a better quality in her instruction and care. Sarah impacts a healthy work environment in the SON positively and passionately by separating problems from realities. She approaches every challenge with the mindset that there is no problem too difficult that it cannot be solved. To role model positivity, Sarah helps separate problems from realities. She encourages learners, peers, and colleagues to focus on problems that can be solved within the work team and educates all on how to accept and adjust to everyday frustrations within the concept of personal responsibility. In summary, Sarah is a great leader who is compassionate and inspirational. She spends time listening to the opinions of learners, peers, clients, and colleagues about the learning and health care environment. Sarah uses these experiences to develop a better understanding of the health care environment, the faculty who teach about the health care environment, and the learners engaged in navigating and understanding the health care environment. Her check and balance process is truly an inspiration and demonstrates the kindness, compassion, and intelligence of a nurse and an educator.