NJHA Appoints New Board Member

Edna Cadmus, senior vice president, Patient Care Services, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, N.J., was appointed a New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton, N.J., board member, and has been appointed president of the Organization of Nurse Executives of New Jersey (ONE/NJ) for a two-year term.

St. Joseph’s Honors Nurse

Sharon Miller, RN (second from left), and Emile Doss, MD, chairman of Cardiology (third from left), at St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital, were selected by their colleagues to receive the Bi-Annual Nurse and Physician Awards. They received them at the quarterly Medical Staff meeting held at the hospital. Shown with Miller and Doss are Linda Bowersox, RN, VP of, Patient Care Services (l), and Bernard Henson, MD, president, Medical Staff (r).

Chilton Nurse Receives C.A.R.E. Award

Mary Rich, VP/CNE, Chilton Memorial Hospital (r), recently received the C.A.R.E. (Clinical Practice Administration Research Education) Award for Excellence in Nursing Administration from the New Jersey State Nurses Association.
The award was presented at the NJSNA Annual New Jersey Nursing Convention at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City.

Nurse Certifications

Anne Carpenter, Short Hills Surgery Center, Millburn, N.J., recently passed the CRNO exam and is now a certified registered nurse in ophthalmology. Michele Glowinski, Lisa Hamilton, Priscilla Heffernan, Ann Luciuk, Jane Mueller, and Kristin White, Cardiac PACU, Morristown Memorial Hospital, Atlantic Health System, Morristown, N.J., recently received CCRN certifications and are now critical care registered nurses.

Nurse Receives National Recognition

Lucille Joel will receive the Honorary Recognition Award for distinguished service to the nursing profession from the American Nurses Association June 26, as part of its 2008 Biennial House of Delegates meeting in Washington, D.C. Joel has served as president of the New Jersey Nurses Association and president of the American Nurses Association.

St. Joseph’s Honors Nurse

Sharon Miller, RN (second from left), and Emile Doss, MD, chairman of Cardiology (third from left), at St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital, were selected by their colleagues to receive the Bi-Annual Nurse and Physician Awards. They received them at the quarterly Medical Staff meeting held at the hospital. Shown with Miller and Doss are Linda Bowersox, RN, VP of, Patient Care Services (l), and Bernard Henson, MD, president, Medical Staff (r).

Nurse Establishes LPN School

Dely Po Go, president of Clifton-based nursing agency Nursing Network, LLC, and CEO and owner of AVTECH (r), recently has established AVTECH Institute of Technology and Allied Health in South Plainfield, as a practical nursing school for students to become LPNs or for LPNs to prepare for matriculation into an RN program. For more information, call (908) 222-2833.