2022 Nurses Recognition Day Celebration
At the Federation of Nurses/UFT Nurse Recognition Day Celebration on May 17, members celebrated 20 nurses for their advocacy, leadership, union work and distinguished service, and they reveled in being together to honor their work and their profession for the first time since the pandemic began.


RN Advocate honoree Suzan Rimawi (center) of NYU Langone – Brooklyn with colleagues Rafael Roque and Radmila Lyashenko during the Nurse Recognition Day Celebration at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on May 17.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Homecare Nurse of the Year Angela Maloney (center) celebrates with co-workers.

NYU Langone – Brooklyn’s Gina Scudiero (second from left) was honored as an RN Advocate.

An attendee holds up one of the event’s signature rum punch cocktails, which were served in novelty IV bags.


Janet Miller (right), a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital South, receives the SIUH Humanitarian Award from Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the event’s emcee.


RN Advocate honoree Suzan Rimawi (center) of NYU Langone – Brooklyn with colleagues Rafael Roque and Radmila Lyashenko during the Nurse Recognition Day Celebration at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on May 17.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Homecare Nurse of the Year Angela Maloney (center) celebrates with co-workers.

NYU Langone – Brooklyn’s Gina Scudiero (second from left) was honored as an RN Advocate.

An attendee holds up one of the event’s signature rum punch cocktails, which were served in novelty IV bags.


Janet Miller (right), a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital South, receives the SIUH Humanitarian Award from Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the event’s emcee.

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NYU Langone – Brooklyn’s Gina Scudiero (second from left) was honored as an RN Advocate.

An attendee holds up one of the event’s signature rum punch cocktails, which were served in novelty IV bags.


Janet Miller (right), a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital South, receives the SIUH Humanitarian Award from Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the event’s emcee.


RN Advocate honoree Suzan Rimawi (center) of NYU Langone – Brooklyn with colleagues Rafael Roque and Radmila Lyashenko during the Nurse Recognition Day Celebration at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on May 17.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Homecare Nurse of the Year Angela Maloney (center) celebrates with co-workers.

NYU Langone – Brooklyn’s Gina Scudiero (second from left) was honored as an RN Advocate.

An attendee holds up one of the event’s signature rum punch cocktails, which were served in novelty IV bags.


Janet Miller (right), a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital South, receives the SIUH Humanitarian Award from Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the event’s emcee.


RN Advocate honoree Suzan Rimawi (center) of NYU Langone – Brooklyn with colleagues Rafael Roque and Radmila Lyashenko during the Nurse Recognition Day Celebration at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on May 17.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Homecare Nurse of the Year Angela Maloney (center) celebrates with co-workers.

NYU Langone – Brooklyn’s Gina Scudiero (second from left) was honored as an RN Advocate.

An attendee holds up one of the event’s signature rum punch cocktails, which were served in novelty IV bags.


Janet Miller (right), a nurse at Staten Island University Hospital South, receives the SIUH Humanitarian Award from Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members and the event’s emcee.
