Kristine Duke

Jewish Hospital

The “new rules” of nursing, which state that the patient is the source of control, are nothing new for Kristine Duke. As a nurse in the ICU unit at Jewish Hospital, she’s been partnering with patients - and family members - all her career. Kris, as patients and colleagues know her, exemplifies the role of patient advocate and is a model of this attribute to her co-workers. As one nominator wrote, “Those young nurses lucky enough to encounter a caring, natural-born nurse-teacher like Kris will reflect back on a long career and point out that she is the reason they stayed in nursing in spite of all the difficulties.”