Peninsula Hospital Center

Nursing

If you have chosen Nursing as your profession, you have chosen to spend your life helping others, blending skills of scientific knowledge with compassion and genuine caring. Peninsula Hospital Center offers nurses a rewarding combination of high tech and the opportunity to make a real difference.

Challenging – Rewarding – Exciting…

just a few ways to describe the nursing experience at Peninsula Hospital Center. Pledging to provide quality care for our patients and improve the health of our community, nursing at PHC is guided by the values of excellence and professionalism. Our nursing staff strives to do their best to provide the best for our patients and our staff.

Excellence in Practice

Peninsula Hospital Center’s nurses believe that excellence in practice is built upon knowledge, exciting opportunities for growth and the dynamics of team collaboration provides for a uniquely rewarding experience that stands out from the rest.

Professionalism

Promoting best standards, Nursing’s leadership and education staff at Peninsula Hospital Center are committed to providing the support, education and training necessary for professional growth and development of its nursing staff beginning in the early phases of orientation and continuing throughout employment. Preceptor mentorship and ongoing competency analysis assist in fostering an environment that supports and encourages staff self-development and self-improvement.

Nursing Opportunities

Welcoming student nurse externs, new graduates and experienced nursing staff alike, Peninsula Hospital Center’s Nursing Department offers many challenging opportunities designed to maximize professional practice and promote professional growth and development. Within PHC’s acute and skilled nursing areas, opportunities span the continuum of care and include many specialty areas which utilize the expertise of nursing staff providing care, with a focus on:

Patient Focus. The patient is of paramount importance. Emphasis on interaction with each patient.
Diverse Community. The surrounding community population is widely diverse ethnically, culturally & economically. Our residents have an extraordinary opportunity to lean and treat a wide array of diseases.
Education Philosophy. There is a team approach and the the faculty is committed to excellence.

Medical-Surgical
Telemetry
Critical Care
Emergency Department
Perioperative Services
Pediatrics
Hemodialysis
Traumatic Brain Injury
Geriatrics
Rehabilitation
Family Health

For more information about nursing opportunities at Peninsula Hospital Center, contact the office for Nurse Recruitment at 718-734-2586. Resumes are welcomed by fax at 718-734-2461 or e-mailed to nurse.recruiter@peninsulahospital.org.

Rapid Response Team

Peninsula Hospital Center presented certificates of recognition at a special breakfast to the members of the Hospital Center's Rapid Response Team which has been in place since November of 2006. The Rapid Response Team is part of a new initiative at Peninsula Hospital Center the focus of which is to proactively intervene to reduce cardiac arrests, curtail the incidence of respiratory failure, stroke, severe sepsis and acute renal failure. Robin Blackwell, RN, Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive at PHC states, "The results since the Team's inception are very definitive and have produced very positive clinical results. This leads to better patient care and better patient care is always our primary goal."

Pictured here Members of the Rapid Response Team represented by: Back row (l-r): Celestine Melville, RT, Respiratory Therapy, Christine Logue, RN, Ed
Ozechowski, RT, Administrative Director of Cardio-Pulmonary Services, Susan William, RT, Respiratory Therapy, Maureen Featherston, RT, Respiratory
Therapy, Laura Rayder, RN, Larisa Kleymenova, DO, Robin Blackwell, RN Vice President of Nursing & Chief Nursing Executive and Linda Dascher, RN Director of Quality Management. Bottom row, seated (l-r): Luciana Caputo, RT, Respiratory Therapy, Margaret Galligan, CCRN, Eunmi Kim, RN, PHD, Salli Laufer, MD.

Nurse of Distinction Annual Awards

The Nurse of Distinction Award is given to an extraordinary professional who clearly exhibits the three “C’s,” including Competence, which is judged by on the job experience; Commitment, which is measured in dedication to self, patients, peers and the profession of nursing; and Connection, which is shown in the effective communication of the excellence of nursing to others.

Marilou P. Espiritu, RN, is works on 3 Bay in the Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation. Nurse Espiritu has been elected by her peers as this year’s recipient of the Nurse of Distinction Award.

“Being selected the “Nurse of Distinction” is a tremendous honor,” said Robin Blackwell, RN, Vice President of Nursing. “Each year we honor outstanding nursing professionals who practice compassion and have been exemplary and distinctive in the performance of their duties and who serve as an example of the hospital center’s mission to provide the highest quality of health care. At the annual nurses’ luncheon we are extremely proud to pay tribute to our Nurses of Distinction along with the entire nursing staff who give above and beyond each and every day.”

Margaret Galligan, CCRN, is the Assistant Head Nurse of the Coronary Care Unit. Nurse Galligan has been elected by her peers to be this year’s Nurse of Distinction, representing Peninsula Hospital Center.

Nursing is at the forefront of Peninsula Hospital Center’s excellence. Our nurses each have their own goals, ideas and strengths. In departments and units across the continuum of care, nurses make contributions – small and large, day after day – that have a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families.

Robin Blackwell, RN, Vice President of Nursing