The Best Staff
BWH is proud of nurses’ many achievements. BWH Nurse recognizes some of these accomplishments here. If you or your nurse colleague gains a promotion, earns a new degree or certification or receives an award, please let us know at bwhnurse@partners.org
Degrees and Professional Certifications
Debbie O’Connor, MS, RN, CNML, earned certification from the American Organization of Nurse Executives as a Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML).
Diane Laspada, RN, of the Ambulatory Infusion Center on Tower 3D, earned Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI) certification in March.
Corrine Miller-Foster, RN, CFRN, CEN, CCRN, EMT, SANE-A, of the Emergency Department, earned certification in the Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (PFCCS) from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Tower 15AB’s Maura Carney, BSN, RN, and Elizabeth Castronovo, BSN, RN, received certification as Reiki I practitioners.
Virginia McDonough, BSN, RN, of 15AB, received certification in Bariatric Nursing.
Operating Room nurses Suzanne Francis, BSN, RN, CNOR; Sharon Bouyer Ferullo, BS, RN, MHA, CNOR; Steven J. Richardson, BSN, RN, CNOR; Kristen Murray, BSN, RN, CNOR; and Kimberly S. Leavitt, RN, CNOR, earned certification in Operating Room Nursing (CNOR).
Donald Grimes, DNP, RN, recently earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from Regis College. His doctoral thesis examined nursing students’ reports of professional values in traditional and nontraditional programs. His doctoral capstone work involved “Simulated Health Records In Nursing Education” (SHRINE) and “Simulation in Massachusetts Colleges of Nursing” (SIMCON). This work was accepted by the Health Information Technology (HIT) Scholar program, from which he was selected as an HIT scholar for 2010. Grimes also was among a group who presented “Quantifying the Core Data Element between Nurses at the Change-of-Shift: Quantifying the Core Data Elements” during the GBC-AACN in collaboration with Regis College in April. In the fall, Grimes will join Simmons College as an adjunct faculty member teaching nontraditional nursing students in the accelerated masters program.
Posters, Presentations and Publications
Margaret Costello, PhD, RN, Leslie McKinney, RN, Kate Mills, BSN, RN, Suzanne Silvernail, MSN, RN, Sarah Thompson, MSN, RN, and Courtney Urban, BSN, RN, presented a poster, “Passing the Torch: Transitioning to a New Way of Giving Report,” at the AACN Greater Boston Chapter/Regis College event: Emerging Trends Impacting Critical Care Nursing Leaders in April.
Dorothy Bradley, MSN, RN, and Julianne Nee, AS, presented the poster, “The Center For Nursing Excellence SharePoint Site: A Collaborative Communication Tool,” during the New England Nursing Informatics Conference in May.
At the Emerging Trends Impacting Acute/Critical Care Nursing Leaders conference hosted by the AACN Greater Boston Chapter/Regis College, Sarah Thompson, MSN, RN, Ayelet Feinberg, MSN, RN, and Charlotte Messinger, BSN, RN, presented a poster titled “Creating an Evidence Based Preceptor Program- A Transformation for All.” Bertha Lee, BSN, RN, also presented a poster titled, “Tackling the Physical Environment: A Quality Improvement Project.”
Carol Corbett, MS, RN, Mary Pennington MS, RN, and Lisa Preston, BSN, RN, will present “Engaging, Enrolling and Developing the ‘Reluctant Preceptor’” during the next National Nurses Staff Development Organization Convention in San Diego in July.
Petra Clark, BNS, RN, presented “IR Emergency-Carcinoid Crisis” at the joint SIR/ARIN meeting in Tampa, Fla.
Margaret Costello, PhD, RN, presented her poster “The Use Of Simulation To Provide Medication Calculation Instruction To First Year Nursing Students and the Impact on the Students’ Grades on Medication Calculation Tests Immediately Post Instruction and at One Month and Six Months Post Instruction,” at the Simulation in Health Care Conference sponsored by Drexel University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in March.
Mary T. Reynolds, RNP, MS, and Barbara M. Perry, PharmD, MPH, presented a poster, “Increasing the Consistency of Assessment and Disposition of Telephone Triage Calls in Ambulatory Care Nursing,” during May’s American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing 35th annual conference in Las Vegas.
Nurse Educator Ronna Zaremski, MSN, RN, CCRN, presented a poster, “Using SharePoint as a Portal to Connect Educator and Staff Nurses,” at the New England Nursing Informatics Consortium Annual Symposium in May.
Sharon Bouyer-Ferullo, MHA, BS, RN, CNOR, and Carol Miller, RN, were among presenters of a poster titled “Preventing Peripheral Nerve Injury in Surgical Patients: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Operating Room Nurses and the Department of Physical Therapy,” during an AORN Congress in Denver, in March.
Ilene Fleischer, MS, RN, CWOCN, and Diane Bryant, MS, RN, CWOCN, published “Techniques for Preventing and Managing Tube Related Complications” in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing.
Linda Foxworthy, FNP, of Brookside Health Center, published a personal essay called “Paying Attention” in a recent issue of Yale Nursing Matters, detailing her 10 years as a volunteer nurse practitioner in a rural health program in the western highlands of Guatemala.
Shapiro 9/10’s Cathy Hogan, MSN, RN, Carol Booth, MSN, RN, Noreen Connolly, MSN, RN, and NIC Suzanne Frazier-Levasseur, BSN, RN, earned their AACN Progressive Care Nurse (PCCN) certification.