NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn nurses celebrate their profession and their colleagues at the annual Nurse Recognition Awards dinner at union headquarters on May 8.

Nurses (from left) Clorette Jacques, Sandra Nin, Amanda Horrigan and Maria Paradiso, all winners of the RN Advocate Award, celebrate their accomplishments and those of their fellow union members.

Jean Marie Luciano, Jennifer Wohlfahrt and Michael Teahan are honored with the Union Service Award.

Susan Sappleton and Kaiser Mojica accept congratulations for winning Homecare Nurse of the Year.

UFT Vice President Anne Goldman, the head of the Federation of Nurses/UFT, welcomes nurses to the annual Nurse Recognition Awards dinner. The chapter is fresh off three major wins this year.

Some 200 nurses and their families gather in Shanker Hall to celebrate their colleagues.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew salutes the hard work and dogged advocacy of Federation of Nurses/UFT members.

Nurses Fran Altieri (left) of NYU Langone–Brooklyn and Sultana Albasic of VNS Health are honored with the Trailblazer Award.