National Kidney Foundation recognizes Jeanetta Wammack, RN, CDN, with Carol Mattix Award
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- Jeanetta Wammack, RN, CDN, receives the Carol Mattix Award.
- Wammack has spent 24 years working in dialysis.
At the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, the NKF will honor Jeanetta Wammack, RN, CDN, with the Carol Mattix Award for her work with kidney disease and patients with kidney failure.
Wammack received her nursing degree from Baptist School of Nursing in 1994 and became a dialysis nurse after her father died from end-stage kidney disease in 1999.
"Jeanetta's devotion to her patients would make Carol Mattix proud and truly continues her commitment to those facing kidney disease and kidney failure," Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE, president of NKF, said in the release. "Dialysis nurses are in high demand while taking care of complex patients and educating individuals with kidney failure and their families. They are vital to nephrology care and the NKF is proud to honor them each year."
Wammack began her career at Arkansas Renal Systems. There, she worked in hemodialysis, advanced to clinic manager and remained in that position for 13 years. She has spent 24 of her 29 years of nursing in the dialysis specialty and following her time at Arkansas Renal Systems, Wammack worked directly with patients in the pediatric peritoneal dialysis department at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
"I am honored and in disbelief that the National Kidney Foundation would choose to honor me with the distinguished Carol Mattix Award. I feel so undeserving, because I know I am not alone in trying to provide the best care possible for my dialysis patients. I just treat my patients the way I would want my loved ones to be treated, and I know there are so many other nurses out there doing the same thing. So, I humbly and graciously accept this award on behalf of all those nurses,” Wammack said in the release.
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