Posted by: NurseKeith in Untagged on
Jun 30, 2008
Yes, Dorothy, even nurses need a vacation, and while this nurse is not returning to Kansas, he is absconding with his wife to an undisclosed location where we happily honeymooned nineteen years ago.
More tales and adventures of nursing will follow after a brief period of rest, recovery, and leisure.
Happy summer to all!
NurseKeith
Posted by: Greg in Untagged on
Jun 26, 2008
The US dentist who masterminded thefts from hundreds of human corpses from funeral homes will serve between 18 and 54 years in jail, a judge has ruled.
Michael Mastromarino's ring stole parts from more than 1,000 bodies, including that of BBC presenter Alistair Cooke.
The group then sold the parts to doctors who transplanted them into patients in a scam worth $4.6m (£2.3m).
Mastromarino, 44, had pleaded guilty to body stealing, reckless endangerment and enterprise corruption in March.
The organs, extracted from bodies which had not been medically screened, were stolen from funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania between 2001 and 2005.
They were sold around the country for 10,000 surgical procedures including knee and hip replacements, as well as dental implants.
'May God have mercy'
Speaking in court earlier this month Mastromarino, who ran the company Biomedical Tissue Services, had apologised to relatives of the dead for the pain he caused them.
"I am truly sorry for the pain that I have caused," he said. "May God have mercy on my soul."
Friday's sentence was passed in New York State's supreme court in Brooklyn.
One of Mastromarino's co-defendants has been convicted in the case, another has pleaded guilty and a third is awaiting trial.
Alistair Cooke, who presented the BBC's popular Letter from America for more than half a century, died in March 2004 at the age of 95 in New York.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7478358.stm
Published: 2008/06/27 18:49:28 GMT
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Posted by: Steve in Untagged on
Jun 26, 2008
Two RNs were honored recently by The Daily Record as top category winners as part of its annual Health Care Heroes program.
The Baltimore legal publication, which honors healthcare professionals in six categories, recognized nearly two dozen local RNs or RN teams in its awards program.
The late Marie Harkowa, RN, CHPN, was honored as the Nurse Hero Top Winner.
Harkowa, who died Nov. 15, 2007, after a seven-year battle with ovarian cancer, served as hospice supervisor and manager of Shore Home Care and Hospice, Easton, Md.
Marlene Cochran, RN, Franklin Square Hospital Center, Baltimore, earned the Volunteer Hero Top Winner. Cochran has doubled enrollment since becoming president of the hospital's auxiliary since 2005.
In the Health Care Professional category, Deb Kirkland, RN, of Lifebridge Health, Baltimore, was named a winner.
The Nurse Hero winners honored were Viki Anders, RN, CRNP, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Marlene Clements, RN,CRNP, Franklin Square Hospital Center; Susan Erlandson, RN, Howard County General Hospital, Columbia, Md.; Barbara Herron, RN, Target Hearts Exercise Program; Mary Lindenmuth, RN, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Baltimore; and Clola Robinson-Blake, RN, Northwest Hospital Center's Cancer and Infusion Therapy Center, Randallstown, Md.
More than a dozen RN finalists also were recognized. Patricia Isennock, RN, CHES, Franklin Square Hospital Center, was a finalist in Community Outreach, while Lucy Shamash, RN, St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, Md., and Mary Ann Straughn, RN, Kaiser Permanente, Rockville, Md., were Health Care Professional finalists.
In the Nurse Hero category, the honorees included Denise Choiniere, RN, and Trisha Fronczek, RN, MSN, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore; Sherry Councell, RN, Shore Health System; Terri Dashiell, RN, Northwest Hospital Center; Carol Perry, RN, The Breast Center at Franklin Square Hospital Center; Sharon Powell, RN, U. of Maryland School of Medicine and U. of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore; Jean Seiler, RN, Heart Aware Program at St. Joseph Medical Center; the surgical unit nurses at Shore Health System; and Terri Zeman, RNC, Janice Colbert, LPN, Paula Fiorucci, RN, and the OB nurses at Franklin Square Hospital Center. The finalists in the Volunteer Hero category included Marian Muth, RN, MS, St. Joseph Medical Center.
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Posted by: NurseKeith in Untagged on
Jun 24, 2008
How much do nurses do that goes unseen, undocumented, and unsung? How much of nursing is of an invisible nature, unnoticed yet crucial to the work of nursing?
So much of what we do as nurses has to be quantified, qualified, charted, and reduced to letters and numbers on a page. Yet there is so much that we do as nurses that is simply beyond documentation and quantification.
A smile, a hand on a shoulder, a chat with a colleague that clears the way for a clinical brainstorm---so many moments of our days are crucial aspects of what we do, yet impossible to describe or record.
Nursing is certainly a science, but there is an artful aspect of our work---and a spiritual aspect, of course---that is essentially beyond words.
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