Nursing Opportunities
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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:
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Patient
Focus. The patient is of paramount importance. Emphasis on
interaction with each patient.
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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.
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Education Philosophy. There is a team approach and the the
faculty is committed to excellence.
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Medical-Surgical
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Telemetry
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Critical Care
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Emergency Department
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Perioperative Services
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Pediatrics
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Hemodialysis
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Traumatic Brain Injury
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Geriatrics
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Rehabilitation
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Family Health
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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
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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. |
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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 |
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