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.
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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Thanks for sharing this with us. It's important for nurses to feel honored and appreciated. There are so many Nurse Heroes out there.........