It is a beautiful Friday afternoon after a long hard week. It is warm and the sun is shining here in Connecticut after a rainy start to the week. A lot of our staff have been working long hours this week with the legislative reception Wednesday afternoon and the Annual Meeting of the Nursing Staff last night. In a few hours, a three day weekend begins and I suspect some people are having difficulty keeping their minds from wandering, just…
Note: This is a guest post from Kerry Bamrick: Hi. I’m the program coordinator for America’s First Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program at Community Health Center, Inc. In 2007, the Community Health Center, headquartered in Middletown, CT launched the first-in-the nation formal Nurse Practitioner Residency Training Program to support the transition from new NP to primary care provider. Our goal is national replication of CHC’s model of community-based residency training for family nurse practitioners. Since 2007, there has been significant…
The following is a message from Mark and Margaret about Patricia Mik, RN, CHC’s “Nightingale Award 2011 recipient” Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Hartford Marriott, a thousand people gathered for the annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing. The Nightingale Awards ceremony is a collaborative effort, celebrated in four cities across Connecticut simultaneously, to celebrate outstanding nurses. Mark and I would like you to join us in congratulating Patricia Mik, RN, of our “Wherever You Are” (W.Y.A) Healthcare for…
It is with great joy that I share a blog post submitted by Margaret Flinter via her cellphone from Baltimore. Thank you Margaret for submitting this: Today Dr. Nwando Olayiwola and I came to Baltimore for the dissertation defense of Bernadette Thomas. Bernadette is a family nurse practitioner and also our medical director at our CHC of Clinton site. She is completing the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her dissertation is titled “Improving Blood…