May 12, 2006

Nurse Recognition Week: MGH nurses are "simply the best"

During the past week, the MGH has recognized the many accomplishments of the hospital's extraordinary nursing staff with special events, seminars, panel discussions, receptions and celebrations. MGH Nurse Recognition Week was launched with a special salute to nurses aboard the USNS Comfort Navy hospital ship May 7. The special nautical event recognized the MGH nurses and others who had volunteered aboard the Comfort and her sister ship, the USNS Mercy, through Project HOPE. They provided aid to victims of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia and hurricanes Katrina and Rita that ravaged the US Gulf Coast. A formal cake-cutting ceremony highlighted the event that also marked the 98th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps.

For more details about MGH Nurse Recognition Week, see next week's Hotline.

From left, Commander Linda Nash, RN, senior nurse for the USNS Comfort; Karen Holland, RN, staff nurse of the MGH Emergency Department and nurse manager aboard the Comfort during Gulf Coast relief efforts; Jeannette Ives Erickson, RN, MS, senior vice president for Patient Care Services and chief nurse; and Rear Admiral Christine Bruzek-kohler, director of the Navy Nurse Corps