Celebration 2000BWH Nurse - For and about the Nursing Staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital
Celebration 2000BWH Nurse - For and about the Nursing Staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital
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July 18, 2000
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Celebration 2000
New Spirit, New Energy, New Views
Declining payments impacting hospitals
Clinton unveils BBA relief package
Legislative UPDATE
Hospital/MNA negotiations underway
Research Focus
Summer Incentive Program
Nurses shine at Neuro Conference
ON THE MOVE
Obituary
Calender July-Sept.
Welcome to the first edition of BWH Nurse
New Directions
Welcome to the first edition of BWH Nurse
BWH Nurse goes that extra 26.2 miles
New Directions
TOWN MEETING
In special recognition of THE NURSES of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Nurses from throughout Brigham and Women’s Hospital were honored in May at the annual Nursing Recognition Dinner. Energy and excitement filled the Westin Hotel ballroom as speakers thanked the hundreds of nurses in the audience and those working at their posts back at the hospital. The Award Ceremony recognized the 2000 recipient of the Essence of Nursing Award, Yolanda “Yoly” Harmuth, RN, OCN, as well as winners of the Mary S. Fay Enrichment Award: William T. Briggs, RN, Nicki Gilboy, RN, Maureen Allen, RN, BSN, Kathleen M. Howard, RN, BSN, and Gabriele Harrison, RN.
With a little help from their friends
No matter the hour, the nurses of BWH strive to place their patients’ needs above all else. Yolanda Harmuth, RN, OCN, or “Yoly,” as she is known to her friends, this year’s Essence of Nursing Award recipient, embodies these qualities and many more. “Yoly really drives the care team, and advocates for patients to receive the best possible outcomes,” says Karen Conley, RN, heartily agreeing that Yoly deserves the Essence of Nursing award. “She provides the best clinical examples for the new nurses—she sets a great example of how to act professionally, and how to keep the patient at the focus of care.”
Starfish Award Recipients
You can see them at nursing stations, in the hallways and in patient rooms. Their five arms rest solidly on the lapels of each nurse who has been recognized by colleagues as a provider of exemplary emotional support to their patients. May 2000
Kelly Brennan
Lisa Caravaggio
Mary Conkey
Sarajune Dagen
Maire Gibbons
Lois Groele
Carmela Julius-Brown
Judi Lauerman
Kathleen Looney
Michele Phillips
Juanita Rodgers
Lori Stevens
Letitia Sullivan
April 2000
Paula Autori
Juana Benavides
Deb Cotto
Linda Fennell
Gail Fournier
Marjorie Kozak
Michelle Leach
Nayla Zreik
March 2000
Margaret Cocks
Nancy Cronin
Jane Davies
Gennady Entin
Eileen Fitzgerald
Margaret Hickey
Laurie Hodges
Moira Manning
Elizabeth Jan McGrath
Elizabeth Casey Mottau
Karen Politano
February 2000
Mary Burns
Maureen Cunniffe
Richard Ernest
Frances Healy
Mary Ellen Lockhart
Tamar May
Eileen McMahon-Bowen
Elizabeth Olivio
Isabel Ortega
Michael Robinson
Elizabeth Spacciapoli
Patricia Taylor
Joseph Tinker
Lori Tishler
January 2000
Catherine Benedict
Pauline Blake
Carolyn Cohen
Sheila Costello
Rita Evans
Evan Garfein
Rosalyn Gifford
Lauren Godsoe
Gabriele Harrison
Frances Healy
Shannon Joyce
Andrea Kelly
Lisa Sampson
Patricia Sullivan
Carolyn Washburn
December 1999
Kristin Annese
Sally Carella
John Connelly
Margaret Costello
Mary Ann Dillon
Ivy Dixon
Heather Gornik
Lisa Groebl
Diane Johnson
Susan Kelley-Moran
Florence Lafferty
Kerri McGonagle
Ramona Nee
Michele Phillips
Julia Rattigan-Curtin
Edna Rivera
Jennifer Roser
Buffy Sheff
Ann Marie Spooner
Sarah Thompson
Diane Wakefield
Kathleen Whelton
November 1999
Denise Aucoin-Barry
John Bogrette
Melinda Francis
Carolyn Hall
Kristin Iannetelli
Martha Lynch
Brenda Morris
Clare Neuner
October 1999
Julie Brocklebank
Anne Couture
Jacqueline M. Dugan
Nancy Falconer
Joycelyn Ferguson
Lucy Feild
Kimberly Gaffney
Taryn Hosmer
Thomas Hunter III
Paulita Isabelle
Michael Lage
Marilyn Moriarty
Patricia Ormsby
William Partridge
Paul Perez
Hope Carla Raymond
Hope Walsh Rex
Julie Richardson
Alison Shurina
September 1999
Beth Armstrong
Abigail Coffin
Susan Guihan
Ann Hargleroad
Kelly Janas
Maureen J. Metzger
Roberta Schmidlein
Maureen Dudley Slomba
Peter Sullivan
Nori Ann Vincitorio
Doris Wilson
Drew Wright