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JMH announces 2015 Nurse Excellence Award winners

Jefferson Memorial Hospital celebrated Nurse’s Week with a Nurse’s Day Reception, honoring their Nurse Excellence Award winners. Pictured from left are Gina Leath, Chief Nursing Oicer; Amber Stule, RN; Lorie Beth Smith, RN; Laura Holt, RN; and Colin McRae, Chief Executive Oicer. Not pictured is Lois Hopkins, RN.

Jefferson Memorial Hospital celebrated Nurse’s Week with a eception, honoring their Nurse Excellence Award winners, and reciting the Florence Nightingale Pledge reaffirming their commitment to serve the community.

This year’s Nurse’s Week theme “Ethical Practice, Quality Care,” supports the Florence Nightingale pledge: I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.

This modified “Hippocratic Oath” was composed in 1893 by Mrs. Lystra E. Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School for Nurses, Detroit, Michigan. It was called the Florence Nightingale Pledge as a token of esteem for the founder of modern nursing.

Nurse Excellence Award Winners were Amber Stuffle, RN; Lorie Beth Smith, RN; Laura Holt, RN; and Lois Hopkins, RN.
The Standard Banner. Thursday, May 21, 2015

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