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Hamilton Spectator
27-05-2025
- Health
- Hamilton Spectator
Erie Shores HealthCare honours 2025 Excellence in Service Award recipients
Erie Shores HealthCare has announced the recipients of its 2025 Excellence in Service Awards, recognizing outstanding staff and volunteers who have gone above and beyond in delivering exceptional patient care across Essex County. The awards were presented during Hospital Staff Appreciation Week and Nurses Week to individuals who exemplify the hospital's core values of compassion, teamwork and excellence. 'This year's recipients represent the very best of Erie Shores,' said Kristin Kennedy, president and CEO of Erie Shores HealthCare. 'Their dedication to patients, their colleagues and the community reminds us why we do what we do. They inspire all of us to strive for excellence.' Located in Leamington, Erie Shores HealthCare serves a wide region including Kingsville, Essex, Comber, Tilbury and surrounding rural communities. With more than 500 employees, professional staff and volunteers, the hospital offers specialized acute and complex continuing care, as well as allied health and ambulatory services. This year's honourees are: • Employee of the Year – Teresa Coppola, honoured for more than 40 years of service and compassionate patient care. • Physician of the Year – Dr. Christopher Anderson, recognized for his leadership and commitment in emergency medicine. • Nurse of the Year – Kristin Spicer, celebrated for her mentorship and role in developing the Admission Discharge Unit. • Leader of the Year – Patti Fields, praised for steady leadership and coordinating hospital-wide patient flow. • Volunteer of the Year – Shelly Dobson, commended for her generosity and unwavering support for staff and patients. • Program of the Year – Diagnostic Imaging Booking Office, recognized for reducing patient wait times by ensuring appointments are booked within eight days of receiving a requisition. The awards are based on peer nominations and reviewed by a hospital-wide selection committee. This year saw a record number of submissions from across all departments and locations, including staff and volunteers who support care in Comber, Tilbury and beyond—reflecting the hospital's deep regional roots and commitment to service.
United News of India
17-05-2025
- Health
- United News of India
Working women hostel to be built in Tanda Medical College, nursing college to be built: RS Bali
Dharamshala, May 17 ( UNI) Himachal Pradesh Tourism Corporation Chairman, Cabinet rank, RS Bali said that a working women hostel will be built in Tanda Medical College at a cost of Rs 8 crores. He said that the nursing school will be upgraded and a nursing college will be built, with an amount of Rs 2 crores 7 lakhs will be spent on this, while a hospital will be built for senior citizens at a cost of Rs 2 crores. The state government is committed to providing quality health services and facilities and model health institutions have been established in about 50 assembly constituencies of the state. In these health institutions, six specialist doctors are providing high level services to the patients. On Saturday, as the chief guest in the Nurses Week programme at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Tourism Corporation Chairman RS Bali said that nursing staff is the backbone of any health institution and nurses are the important link between patients and doctors. He said that efforts are being made to provide every possible facility to the nursing staff. He said that the work of providing necessary nursing staff and modern medical equipment to strengthen all the health institutions across the state is in progress. He said that after being equipped with adequate and latest machines, these health institutions will prove to be a milestone in providing quality treatment facilities to the people. Due to this, patients will not need to go away from their homes or outside the state for better health services. On this occasion, Principal Dr. Milap, Additional Director Dr. Major Avnindra Kumar, SDM Munish Sharma, State President Nurses Bhavna Thakur, Nursing President Monica Rana, Nodal Officer Nirmal, Meera Bhatia, Pavana, nurses and trainee nurses were present. UNI AR RN
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Opinion - America doesn't trust the media, we do trust nurses. What can one learn from the other?
We recently celebrated Nurses' Week, when we see nurses receiving thanks for their hard work and dedication to health care. This recognition is essential, and our community needs to hear it. And then, for the most part, nurses will fade from coverage again until the next year. Indeed, for more than two decades, nurses have appeared in only about 2 percent of health news reporting. During that time, two facts have remained unchanged: Nurses make up the largest sector of the healthcare workforce, with a caring presence in every practice setting, and we have been consistently named the most trusted profession, according to Gallup. One thing that has changed? The simultaneous and rapid decline of trust in mass media — and the rapid rise of misinformation, disinformation and political propaganda in turn. Journalism is, in fact, one of the least trusted professions today. It follows that, as American journalism scrambles to rescue its newsrooms, the industry would benefit from not just including nurses in their coverage but from adopting a nursing model and lens. Nurses are trusted to enter people's homes, deliver their babies, clean their wounds and prepare their dead for burial. That trust is not accidental; we cultivate it. Nurses must forge genuine connections with every person they meet in order to be clinically effective. Genuine connection requires unconditional respect — even if a person has done or said (or represents) what you believe to be abhorrent. Our colleagues in journalism cannot say the same. And so, we find that nurses are not being shut out of national discourse because of something we lack; we are being shut out because something is lacking in journalism today. Those who claim to be curious are often only selectively curious. Those who claim to speak truth to power might, in fact, be blind to the ways in which they rest in their own power — and uphold harmful power structures. Across the political spectrum, journalists project the confidence of people who hold the truth. In panel discussions, anchor monologues and reporting, they often start with what they know and confirm their knowing. One thing nurses know, on the other hand, is how to recognize what we don't know. We could not possibly know the complex worlds from which our patients emerge, carrying their baggage, hope and trauma to the doors of our clinics and emergency rooms. So we ask. The first step in the nursing process is 'assess.' To assess a situation means asking questions and receiving answers without judgement. It often means sitting with someone in narrative messiness, contradictions and non-answers. It can mean allowing someone to (at least for now) hold onto a false belief as they grapple with a painful or confusing new reality. Nurses prioritize people's stated need, even if it's not our clinical priority. We validate people's concerns, even if we do not share those concerns. Asking and listening without judgement is the first step in building trust. Yes, it is common for journalists to ask questions, but for many, judgement is inherent to their professional paradigm. The 'journalist-judge' already knows what their audience needs. So, they scrutinize the relevance of honest human responses, discarding the messy bits, carefully curating a gallery of their own design. Nurses, on the other hand, practice informed consent. We lay out all the options, discuss the pros and cons, and let people decide their own course of action. When it comes to giving advice, we use proven, science-based communication tactics to motivate behavior change — teachable tactics that journalistic interviewers could use, too. We collaborate and encourage; we don't tell or force. We know that telling a person stuck in an unhealthy thought or behavior pattern what to do will only lead to resentment or rejection. We do not mock, interrupt or condescend. In fact, we aim to speak in accessible ways — to speak at a slow pace, define new terms, and confirm that people have heard and understood (using techniques like 'say back'). We aim to bring everyone along, not just those with university educations who can speak English or (in the case of broadcast news) process rapid speech between commercial breaks. Finally, nurses stay, even when everyone else has left — even when there are no resources. Studies show we are often the last clinician to remain when hospitals and clinics fail, and when rural towns are left with no other healthcare infrastructure. We know it is cruel to see people suffering, offer hope and resources, and then take those resources away. Nurses stay after journalists leave, too. Wildfires that rage across television screens, houses that float away, death tolls that are unprecedented rarely receive a follow-up by our colleagues who cover them. And how often does the coverage include an actionable take-away, such as a QR code for donations, phone numbers for help lines, or any mechanism for collective action? The fact that journalists can hold captive to millions of viewers and readers and, quite often, not share anything actionable is unacceptable. You bring the horrors of this world into our lives and leave us with little more than political pseudo-solutions and bipartisan blame. Has this worked yet? The fact is, newsrooms across the country are failing. Those that survive will be the ones who recognize it's time for a radical departure from business as usual. Good stories, gathered and told through a nursing lens, have the potential to heal our country. They might save our newsrooms, too. Rose Hayes, RN, BSN, MA, is a nurse and a writer who helps scientists and clinicians to share their work with the public. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of any institutional affiliations. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
UVM nurses practice at state-of-the art 'virtual hospital'
BURLINGTON, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – The practice nursing students can get has always been limited by the number of patients, and by real-world limits on space and resources. But in the University of Vermont's (UVM's) Clinical Simulation Laboratory, these limits are a thing of the past. This spring, the Department of Nursing at UVM introduced training using virtual reality, or VR for short. With the lab's 16 new VR headsets, nursing students can interact with simulated patients and train on specific surgical tasks. Sarah Manacek, the department's director of simulation education, explained why VR is ground-breaking for trainees. 'Virtual reality is full immersion into a digital world. Students experience complete immersion into a virtual hospital, where avatars are the same size as humans, follow students with their eyes, and respond using natural language processing and machine learning. 'The goal of simulation is to replicate reality as closely as possible.' The 12,600 square-foot facility, which opened in 2011, already includes complex mannequins who use electrical stimuli to 'react' as if they were human, 3D body-part models for skills training, and a program where community members ranging from 18 to over 80 years old play the roles of 'standardized patients'. But Manacek thinks that VR can provide something other methods can't. 'By turning to VR, we've been able to increase simulation opportunities without expanding our physical space … Simulations that require time to set up and repeat, like a patient hemorrhage, are a great opportunity for VR scenarios, and VR also excels for scenarios that require critical thinking and decision-making.' Julia Otterbein, a UVM Nursing graduate, said the new VR techology has been a positive aspect of her learning experience. 'I am a very hands-on learner, and I figure out new skills by trying them out. Being able to run through different patient experiences and diagnoses via this program has been amazing.' To date, the nursing program at UVM has completed over a thousand VR sessions, totaling 321 hours of active simulation. This fall, VR will also become part of the graduate nursing curriculum. UVM Nursing celebrated its annual Nurses Week last week, celebrating the impact nurses have on patients and nursing trainees. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
TPS superintendent talks nurses week and graduation ceremonies
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Superintendent of Topeka Public Schools (TPS), Dr. Tiffany Anderson, joined the 27 News morning newscast with nurse Suzanne Kates to discuss Nurses Week and the upcoming graduation weekend. Dr. Anderson invited Suzanne Kates as a guest to wrap up their celebration and discuss the importance of National Nurses Week, which runs from May 6 to May 12. Suzanne Kates is a roving nurse who serves seven schools. 27 News asked Kates about her job. 'It's absolutely heartbreaking': Seven puppies found abandoned in Jefferson County 'I love school nursing,' Kates said. 'I get to take care of students of all ages, it's different every day and I honestly have the best team of nursing services around.' 27 News also asked if school nursing was a tough position to fill. 'It is a tough position to fill,' Kates said. 'We are looking for new nurses, so but its great.' TPS is hiring nurses and conducting interviews all year round. 'Look at our website,' Anderson said. 'You know, certainly send me an email, look and apply. Now is a great time before we go out for the summer. We do interviews all year, so we have nursing, nurses and schools. We also have substitute nurses that, if you just say, hey, I just want to rotate, I want something in the evening. It's an amazing place to be and we would love for more people to be part of our team.' Dr. Anderson also discussed the exciting upcoming graduation weekend for TPS and has a message for all students graduating. Petition started to overturn parole for 'cop killer' 'Congratulations to all of our students,' Anderson said. 'That is the message. Thank you to our families and the future truly is bright.' Class of 2025 commencement ceremonies will take place on Saturday, May 17, at the Stormont Vail Events Center, 1 Expocentre Dr, Topeka, KS 66612. Each commencement ceremony will also be live-streamed on the Topeka Public Schools YouTube channel. High School Commencement Ceremonies Topeka High School: 9:00 a.m. Highland Park High School: 12:00 p.m. Topeka West High School: 2:30 p.m. Graduation ceremonies for Hope Street Academy and Capital City School will take place on Wednesday, May 14. Hope Street will hold its ceremony at 10:30 a.m. in the school gymnasium, and Capital City will hold its ceremony at 5:30 a.m. at the Topkea Center for Advanced Learning & Careers academy at 500 SW Tuffy Kellogg Dr. Preschool, Elementary, and Middle School Promotion Ceremonies Sheldon Head Start: From 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday, May 19. Pine Ridge Prep: At 1:30 p.m., Monday, May 27 Shaner Early Learning Academy: At 1:45 p.m. on Monday, May 27. Preschool Programs: At 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 27. 5th Grade: From 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28. 8th Grade: At 8:00 a.m. Thursday, May 29. For more local news, click here. Keep up with the latest breaking news in northeast Kansas by downloading our mobile app and by signing up for our news email alerts. Sign up for our Storm Track Weather app by clicking here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
