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Wendy Doogue, a nurse at North Shore Medical Center’s C. Gordon Griffith Cancer Center, is one of five state finalists for Nursing Spectrum’s “Excellence in Nursing” award in the Clinical Care category.

Doogue has been a nurse at North Shore for 29 years. She began her career in the hospital’s pediatrics department, where she worked for three years. She then joined the original staff of the cancer center, spending 14 years in the oncology unit before moving to the outpatient center, where she has spent the last 12 years.

North Shore Medical Center oncology nurse Wendy Doogue (left) joins hospital CEO Manny Linares (right) after learning that she is one of five state finalists for the Nursing Spectrum’s Excellence in Nursing Award in the Clinical Care category.

This is not the first time Doogue is being honored; the hospital selected her at its Nurse of the Year in 2006.