Empowering Excellence: An Interview with the 2023 Barbara Braden Future Is Bright Award Recipient

On this episode of WOCTalk, we sit down with Andrea Grove, BSN, RN, CWOCN, the 2023 recipient of the Barbara Braden Future Is Bright Award. Andrea, a new WOC nurse and a new mother, leads a busy life. Listen to discover how she became a certified WOC nurse, her active involvement in the UPMC Harrisburg skin team and pressure injury prevention committee, her role in updating fecal management documentation, her experience presenting her first-ever poster at WOCNext® 2023, and more about her professional and personal endeavors. The Barbara Braden Future is Bright Award recognizes a new WOC nurse within the first 5 years of practice who is tri-specialty certified and destined to make a significant contribution to WOC care and exemplifies the scope of WOC nursing practice as defined in “WOC Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition” (clinician, educator, consultant, researcher, administrator).