For David Trottman, being connected the receiving extremity of unexpected designation was an accidental to deflect recognition to those helium works with and works for.
The certified occupational wellness caregiver specialist, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton detachment Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, was amazed precocious with The DAISY Award.
The nurse-centric accolade specifically honors “the super-human enactment nurses bash for patients and families each time wherever they practice, successful immoderate relation they serve, and passim their careers,” according to the DAISY foundation.
“Honestly, I person ne'er believed that I merit an award. I genuinely effort and bash the champion I tin bash each day, but arsenic portion of the squad that I enactment with. I privation we could each beryllium recognized arsenic a group. However, it was precise humbling to person this grant and I americium thankful for it,” said Trottman, determination programme manager for occupational wellness nursing astatine the largest occupational wellness session successful the Department of Navy serving astir 16,000 DoD shipyard workers.
Trottman attests that being a recipient of the DAISY Award affirms that the enactment the session does is being noticed and appreciated.
“It conscionable sheds airy connected the enactment we bash here. We are compassionate attraction givers. We are the lone existent aesculapian beingness astatine the shipyard, different than the occurrence department. We are not an exigency room, oregon intensive attraction unit, but we instrumentality attraction of the astir 16,000 workers present each day,” Trottman said.
The session provides enactment to PSNS with broad enactment surveys, programme valuation for elimination and power of chemical/biological wellness hazards, proceeding conservation, wellness promotion/wellness, attraction of occupational injuries and illnesses, certification examinations, occupationally related immunizations, aesculapian surveillance, and more.
“The champion portion of my occupation is knowing that I person a nonstop interaction connected the U.S. Navy and its mission,” related Trottman. “Every day, workers travel to spot me. I assistance to guarantee that they stay harmless successful their regular tasks servicing the submarines and aboveground vessels that are astatine the shipyard.”
Trottman’s duties arsenic an occupational wellness caregiver support him perpetually engaged successful the hectic situation of the Pacific Northwest's largest Naval enactment installation and 1 of Washington state's largest concern installations.
“The day-to-day grind is heavy administrative successful focus. I presumption OHN’s arsenic investigators, who look astatine laboratory results/trends, enactment processes, and vulnerability information to find if our civilian/military workers are being hurt/exposed from the assorted hazards that are communal to the enactment they are progressive successful astatine the shipyard,” explained Trottman. “The OHN is the go-to unit subordinate for diligent screening/information, connection betwixt healthcare facilities, and surveillance guidelines/protocols. We marque definite our workers are harmless and protected, truthful they tin guarantee the naval vessels they are moving connected marque their deployment windows.”
Such a moving situation is truly thing caller to Trottman. Throughout his full life, helium has successful immoderate mode been linked to the U.S. Navy. He was raised adjacent to Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, successful Ridgecrest, California, and graduated from Burroughs High School determination successful 1991.
“I was an Air Force brat, truthful moving regularly was communal for my household erstwhile I was increasing up. I was calved successful Homestead, Florida, but past lived successful Alabama, Saudi Arabia, and yet Ridgecrest,” Trottman said. “It was much the thought of being an serviceman successful the Navy that attracted me. I ever liked the thought of serving my country, wearing the beauteous Navy whites, and travelling the world.”
He enlisted successful the Navy successful 1992, went done the Navy’s BOOST programme – which backmost past provided him the accidental to person extended world mentation to bolster his chances for the serviceman enactment process – and entered the University of Washington Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps arsenic a ‘nurse option’ midshipman.
“After being commissioned, I reported to Naval Hospital Bremerton successful June 1997. I spent conscionable nether six years connected progressive duty, and near the Navy arsenic a lieutenant,” said Trottman, who served arsenic an inpatient ward caregiver and exigency country caregiver with further tours of work astatine Jacksonville, Florida, San Diego, Groton, Connecticut and Honolulu.
In a vocation of progressive work arsenic good arsenic civilian work spanning implicit 30 years, Trottman readily admits his apical memories are not the places he’s been oregon the experiences he’s accomplished.
“The champion portion of my vocation has been the relationships I person developed with the enlisted, officer, and civilians I person encountered,” noted Trottman. “Some of the champion radical I person ever known, I person worked with broadside by broadside successful my career.”
When asked to sum up his acquisition with Navy Medicine successful 1 sentence, Trottman replied, “My Navy Medicine vocation has been a genuinely amusive and fulfilling ride.”
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