Amy Stephens
July 2025
Amy
Stephens
,
RN
Occupational Health
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
Lebanon
,
NH
United States
I often ask myself, "What would Amy do?"
Amy is being recognized for her excellence in the field of occupational health nursing. For the last almost three decades, she has demonstrated commitment to the highest standards of professionalism and care for her patients, which are not traditional direct care patients, but employer clients and employees.
Through years of self-directed professional development, she has attained an expert level of knowledge of the many, varied, and often confusing, broad field of occupational health. She has a long history of assisting employers in protecting the safety and health of their employees through her willingness to share this expertise, as well as her willingness to travel to numerous job sites to make services to employees as easy as possible. This has directly benefitted many patients in working class populations that have the tendency to be less likely to seek out these types of services. Speaking personally as a nurse who was new to the field 8 years ago, I have benefitted countless times from her teaching and willingness to share occupational health wisdom.
As just one example, she taught me how to follow up with patients who had been exposed to blood borne pathogens, not only the technical aspects, but also in thinking of it from the point of view of the exposed person and what kind of care I would want to receive for myself during what can be an anxiety producing time. As my job tasks have changed over the years, she has always been willing to talk me through it, and has an uncanny knack in helping me to see the bigger picture when I am holding a few pieces of a problem, and am uncertain what to do next.
She has high standards and always holds herself to an even higher standard than those around her. Working in OH, which has a tendency to require comfort with working autonomously, and in sometimes ambiguous situations, I often ask myself, "What would Amy do?" Her work ethic is legendary in our clinic and she does not have a self promoting bone in her body, in fact, she will probably be uncomfortable with this nomination! We have been so lucky to have her in our clinic, and she will be greatly missed when she retires later this year!
Through years of self-directed professional development, she has attained an expert level of knowledge of the many, varied, and often confusing, broad field of occupational health. She has a long history of assisting employers in protecting the safety and health of their employees through her willingness to share this expertise, as well as her willingness to travel to numerous job sites to make services to employees as easy as possible. This has directly benefitted many patients in working class populations that have the tendency to be less likely to seek out these types of services. Speaking personally as a nurse who was new to the field 8 years ago, I have benefitted countless times from her teaching and willingness to share occupational health wisdom.
As just one example, she taught me how to follow up with patients who had been exposed to blood borne pathogens, not only the technical aspects, but also in thinking of it from the point of view of the exposed person and what kind of care I would want to receive for myself during what can be an anxiety producing time. As my job tasks have changed over the years, she has always been willing to talk me through it, and has an uncanny knack in helping me to see the bigger picture when I am holding a few pieces of a problem, and am uncertain what to do next.
She has high standards and always holds herself to an even higher standard than those around her. Working in OH, which has a tendency to require comfort with working autonomously, and in sometimes ambiguous situations, I often ask myself, "What would Amy do?" Her work ethic is legendary in our clinic and she does not have a self promoting bone in her body, in fact, she will probably be uncomfortable with this nomination! We have been so lucky to have her in our clinic, and she will be greatly missed when she retires later this year!