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Show Davies is hospital employee of year I J i 1 1, , i. i- "Solid performer," "enjoyable," and "sure mannered" are words used by fellow employees in describing de-scribing American Fork Hospital's Employee of the Year Alan Da-vies. Da-vies. Patients, families, and co-workers have all benefited from Davies' skill and strength as a registered nurse serving in the hospital's emergency room. He has performed per-formed efficiently and reassuringly at all hours of the day and night. "Alan puts anxious patients at ease with his sure manner," says one hospital physician. "He is incredibly in-credibly awake and cheerful at 2 a.m." Davies first joined Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Health Care as a registered nurse at McKay Dee Hospital in 1973. He transferred to American Fork Hospital in 1981, where he served in several departments including in-cluding surgical, orthopedic, recovery recov-ery room, and the operating room before joining the emergency medical medi-cal team. Dedicated to nursing in every sense of the word, Davies says that working in a hospital emergency room is both challenging and rewarding. re-warding. "I enjoy working in critical criti-cal care," he says. "I feel like the patients really need me." In each department he has served in, Davies has been known and appreciated for his excellent patient-care abilities and his sense of humor. Alan Davies Davies is originally from M:; ' tana, but he graduated from If school in Clearfield, Utah.Hefe earned his registered nursings gree at Weber State College, Now, Alan calls Northern IK County home. He lives in Lehi his wife, Mary Lu, and their "-children "-children - Sara, Jessica, Jacobs-Joseph. Jacobs-Joseph. . ; When Alan is not wo -enjoys horses, snowmobiling, eling, and listening to music 1K- the 50's and 60's. . Hospital employees chose levies le-vies as the Employee of the thank him for his fine examp ; nursing, and for his contributions to the excellent-health excellent-health care in the American"' Hospital Emergency Boom. |