The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and AJCJobs honored Georgia’s nurses during National Nurses’ Week, May 6 — 12, 2009 with their fourth annual Nursing Excellence Awards program. "We are very pleased to announce that Susanne Whittle, RN, and Kim Love, RN, were among the 230 nurses nominated from across the state," said Barbara Valentine, assistant administrator of Patient Care Services at Newton Medical Center.AJC readers submitted essays describing how a nurse has made a difference in his or her life or in the life of a loved one during the previous year.Love is a staff nurse on the Medical