Nursing Department Announces Kravitz Award Recipients
Mairead Hickey, PhD, RN, left, along with this year’s Lily Kravitz Nursing Studies Awards recipients during a ceremony in Carrie Hall.
What impact do alternative therapies have on reducing nurse stress and improving quality of care? What is the nurse’s role in preventing central line infections? What more can be done to prevent and manage pressure ulcers in the cardiac surgical patient?
These are some of the questions three teams of nurses will investigate in the coming months, thanks to the Lily Kravitz Nursing Studies Awards, presented in November during a ceremony in Carrie Hall.
“Dr. Kravitz understood the intellect and compassion needed to become a nurse,” said Mairead Hickey, PhD, RN, chief nursing officer and senior vice president of Patient Care Services.
In 1995, Dr. Arthur Kravitz, a psychiatrist at BWH, established the award in honor of his mother, Lily, to acknowledge the importance of nursing’s role in health care. Since then, the award has financially supported the scholarly and clinical work of more than 45 individuals and teams.
This year’s awards will fund the following studies:
“Implementing Alternative/Complimentary Therapies for the Purpose of Stress Reduction in Nurses While Improving the Quality and Care of our Patients.” Santina Wilson, BSN, RN, Mary Absi, BSN, RN, and Heather Hogan, BSN, RN , Shapiro 8.
“Central Venous Catheter Safety.” Thomas B. Chafe, BSN, RN, in collaboration with Jeremiah Schuur, MD, and Christopher LeMaster, MD, Emergency Department.
“Developing a Skin Care Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcer in Cardiac Surgery ICU.” Maria Bentain-Melanson, MSN, CCRN-CS, Maryann Solari, BSN, RN, Mary Aquilino, RN, Karen Politano, BSN, RN, and Trevor Herrin, BSN, RN, Cardiac Surgery ICU.