Three Downstate Nurses Receive Nursing Excellence Awards:
Jun 16, 2011
Stephen R. Marrone Wins Regional Award; Paulina Marfo-Boateng and
Betty Jung Recognized as Regional Finalists
Three nursing leaders at SUNY Downstate Medical Center were honored by Nursing Spectrum, a national publication for nursing professionals, at its annual Nursing Excellence
Awards Ceremony, held June 2 in Glenpointe, New Jersey.
Stephen R. Marrone, EdD, RN-BC, CTN-A, deputy nursing director of the Institute of Continuous Learning at SUNY Downstate, was the New York/New Jersey regional award winner in the Advancing and Leading the Profession category. He is now eligible to compete for a national Nursing Excellence Award; winners will be announced in the fall.
Paulina Marfo-Boateng, MSN, RN, was recognized for being selected as a regional finalist in the Clinical Care category. Ms. Marfo-Boateng is a staff nurse III (charge nurse) on Nursing Station 71/73. Betty Jung, BSN, RN, a patient educator at the Center for Community Health Promotion and Wellness at Downstate, was a finalist in the Community Service category.
In the New York/New Jersey region, more than 200 nominations were received and only five regional finalists were selected in six categories: Advancing and Leading the Profession, Clinical Care, Community Service, Management, Mentoring, and Teaching.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.