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Deartment of Nursing Services

NEWS AND EVENTS

bridge News and Events
Employees of the Year 2008
Employees of the Year 2007
Employees of the Year 2006
Employees of the Year 2005
Announcements
Adjunct Lecturers In The College Of Nursing
Upcoming Events
– Publications

 

News and Events

Ms. Linda Cohen RN, MPH, MSN abstract submission on “Making Hospitals Diabetes Friendly: The Role of the CDE” ” has just been accepted by the American Association of Diabetes Educators.  Ms. Cohen will present it at the August annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Stephen R. Marrone, EdD, RN-BC, CCRN, CNOR, Director, Nursing Education and Research was an invited speaker on the topic of "New Graduate Residency Program Using Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice" that was presented at the Annual Nursing Education Institute in June 2007 in Miami, Florida sponsored by Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Related Professions.

Ms. Linda Cohen RN, MPH, MSN has been elected to the Board of the Metro New York Association of Diabetic Educators

Ms. Maria Yomtov RN , MSN, CDE, Director, Center for Community Health Promotion & Wellness was a guest speaker on "Cardiovascular Disease in our community" for community health workers. The event was coordinated by the Greater Southern Brooklyn Health Coalition, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President

Ms. Matilda Dyer RN, Assistant Director of Nursing, Ambulatory Surgery was featured in the July 23rd issue of Advance for Nurses on her philosophy of cultural diversity and its impact on the nurse working at Downstate Medical Center.


Ms. Linda S. Cohen RN, MSN, MPH, CDE
has been appointed as the 2007-2008, board member of the Metropolitan New York Association of Diabetes Educators.

Stephen R. Marrone, EdD, RN, BC, CCRN, CNOR, Director of Nursing Education, Practice, and Research was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Transcultural Nursing Society and a member of the Transcultural Nursing Certification Commission.

Each month the hospital chooses two employees who have exceeded the standard for service excellence. We are proud to celebrate the selection of seven nurses from our department!

 

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Employees of the Year 2008


R. Abraham-Nichols
RN, MPA

Kim A. Cummings
Surgical Technologist

Michelle Tallos-Amato
RN


Employees of the Year 2007

July 2007


Ms. Corina Florece Ruiz

RN



Employees of the Year 2007

March 2007


Ms. Dorothy Parkinson

RN - NS 35

 

June 2007


Ms. Esther Griffiths

RNII


Employees of the Year 2007

March 2007


Ms. Dorothy Parkinson

RN - NS 35

 
May 2007


Ms. Lashon Pitter
RN III


Employees of the Year 2007

March 2007


Ms. Dorothy Parkinson

RN - NS 35

 

March 2007

LEWIS
Ms. Vanessa Bristol Lewis

RN - NS 42

 

October 2006

laurent
Ms. Dorothy Parkinson
RN - NS 35

 
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Employees of the Year 2006

November 2006

torres
Mary Jane Torres RNIII
Coronary Care Unit

 

 

October 2006

alexander
Deslin Alexander RN II

Neuroscience/Gynecology

October 2006

laurent
Denise Laurent

LP
N Operating Room

 

August 2006

hinds
Florence T. Viera-Hinds RN II.V

Coronary Care Unit

   

July 2006

ross
Ms. Eglyn Ross BSN, RNIII

Adult Medicine Unit

May 2006

dalton
Ms. Blossom Dalton RNC, BSN

Staff Nurse
Ambulatory Care

 

April 2006

balu
Ms. Marie Monique Balu RNC, MA

Nurse II.V
Postpartum Newborn Nursery

   
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Employees of the Year 2005

July 2005

CORONADO
Ms. M. Coronado RN, BSN, CNOR
Assistant Director of Nursing-Perioperative Services

Employees of the Year 2005

July 2005

jung
Ms. Betty Jung, RN, BSN
Nurse III
Center for Community Health & Wellness

 

August 2005

bailey
Ms. Mary Bailey
Staff Assistant
Nursing Personnel

August 2005

king
Ms. Carole King

Hospital Clinical Assistant
Rehabilitation/Orthopedic Unit


 

September 2005

ferguson

Ms. Marlene Ferguson RN, MSN
Associate Director of Nursing
Ambulatory Care

   

November 2005

bucknor
Ms. Daphne Bucknor RN, BS,
CNOR, CRCST, CHL

Director of Materials Management
Perioperative Services

November 2005

vincent
Ms. Cheryl Vincent RN, BSN

Staff Nurse
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit




 

December 2005

clement
Ms. Althea Clement RN, MA
Staff Nurse III
Labor & Delivery

December 2005

yomtov
Ms. Maria Yomtov RN MA

Director
Center for Community Health & Promotion & Wellness



 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Lorraine Blake-Reid RNC, MA, CCE, Associate Director of Nursing-Informatics, presented “Use of Computerized Forms in the Philips Medical Systems Obstetrical Information Management System” at their OB Trace Vue User Group Conference, June 21, 2006, in Baltimore, Maryland

Mr. Ray Cupid, Assistant Director of Nursing for the Emergency Department has been selected as a recipient of the Greater New York Hospital Association Nursing Leadership Scholarship. Mr. Cupid will attend a fifteen month program which includes nursing leaders in the tri state area. The purpose of the program is to foster strategies on how health care organizations can develop and implement programs in cultural diversity.

Ms. Anny Yeung, Assistant Vice President of Perioperative and Support Services has been recognized as one of the top Nursing leaders in perioperative nursing. Ms. Yeung is the recipient of the Georgetown University Nursing Leadership scholarship. She will attend a week long seminar in July which focuses on management trends and solutions in health care.

Janis McPherson Miller RN, MSN, Director of Nursing-Surgery/Neuroscience & Rehabilitation was chosen as an Editor's choice in the 2005 Outstanding Nurse Leader contest by Advance for Nurses' Magazine.

Cynthia Margalit RN, MSA, Director of Nursing-Psychiatry won first prize for her poster presentation, entitled “Use of Medication Protocol for De-escalation of Acute Agitation Episodes,” at the American Psychiatric Nursing Association convention in November 2005.

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DEPARTMENT OF NURSING SERVICES
ADJUNCT LECTURERS
COLLEGE OF NURSING

Stephen R. Marrone, EdD, RN, BC, CCRN, CNOR
Director of Nursing Education, Practice, and Research
Institute of Continuous Learning
Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing

Gemma Abaring RN, BSN
Assistant Director of Nursing
Critical Care
Department of Nursing Services

Linda Cohen RN,MSN, MPH, CDE
Assistant Director of Nursing
Department of Nursing Services

Margaret Jackson MA, RN
Chief Nursing Officer
Assistant Vice President
Department of Nursing Services

Jean McHugh MSN, APRN, BC CS
Assistant Director of Nursing,
Institute of Continuous Learning
Department of Nursing Services

Diane Forbes Woods RN, MA, BC
Deputy Nursing Director
Department of Nursing Services

Maria Yomtov RN, MA
Director
Center for Community Health,

Annie Yeung RN, MPA
Assistant Vice President for Perioperative & Support Services

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Upcoming Events


Pre-Holiday Recruitment Fest
December 12, 2007
Starts at 10:00 am sharp.
Sodexho Court- University Hospital of Brooklyn

Opportunities available in PACU, PICU, MED-SURG, NEUROSCIENCE, TRANSPLANT, EPS, INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY, E.D, L&D, POST-PARTUM,

Contact: Mercedes Brown at 718-826-4995/4997 or
e-mail at mercedes.brown@downstate.edu



TBA
Open House for Nurses
Call M. Brown RN, Nurse Recruiter at 1-718-270-4995
Email: mercedes.brown@downstate.edu


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Publications

Caboral, MF, Feng J. & Mitchell, JE,

“Clinical Characteristics and Echocardiographic features of Black Men vs. Black Women with Systolic Heart Failure” Journal of National Medical Association 2005;97(3):384-88

“Women: The Target of the New American Heart Association Guidelines in Cardiovascular Prevention” Topics in Advance Practice Nursing e Journal 2004 4(3), 2004

“B-Type natriuretic peptide: A new tool in the armamentarium used to accurately diagnostic heart failure. Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing 2003:18(4):190-193

“Prevention is Focus of New Guidelines for Heart Failure”. Physician Assistant 2003' 27(2):20-25

“New Guidelines in Heart Failure: Focusing on Prevention” Journal of Nurse Practitioner 2003:28(1):13-23

Cohen, Linda RN, MSN, MPH,, CDE

“Why You Should Control Your Diabetes.” Kidney Beginnings” A Publication of the American Association of Kidney Patients. Volume 5 (2) June-July 2006

Mayers, Joan D.

“Dietary Restrictions in Maintenance Hemodialysis: Experiences of English speaking West Indian Adults Journal of Nephrology Nursing 2000. Volume 27(3) pg. 315-9

Sheard, Tim RN

“Arming Your Institution Against Bioterrorism Attack” Advance for Nurses Magazine October 15, 2001

“What Nurses can do to fight “Super” Bugs in the Intensive Care Unit” Advance for Nurses Magazine, August 5, 2002

Thomas-Nedd, Greta,

“The Dynamics of Septic Shock” Nursing Spectrum March 24, 2003 Vo. 15 No. 6