The Very Best Staff

BWH has the very best nursing staff and is proud of nurses’ many achievements. Each month, BWH Nurse recognizes some of these achievements here. If you or your nurse colleague gains a promotion, earns a new degree or certification or receives an award, please let us know at bwhnurse@partners.org

Mary Nelson, RN, CNRN, in September was promoted to Tower 10D day NIC. She has been a staff nurse on Tower 10CD since 2003. Nelson is attending Curry College’s RN-BSN program. In November, she earned certification as a neuroscience registered nurse.

Ania Noel-Edwards, BSN, RN, in August was promoted to 10CD night NIC. She has been a staff nurse on Tower 10C since 2000. Noel-Edwards received her BSN from Curry College.

Laurie Rapson, RN, in January was promoted to NIC for Maternal Fetal Medicine and OB Resident practices. Rapson, who previously was a staff nurse in Maternal Fetal Medicine, has 26 years of experience in BWH nursing to her credit, including staff positions in Labor and Delivery and Postpartum.

Donna Goddard, RN, of the Intermediate Float Pool, in December earned her BSN from Framingham State College.

Carole Kubiak, RN, assistant nurse manager of the OR, this year earned her 25-year certification for CNOR.

Elizabeth Jan McGrath, BSN, RN, nurse manager of Tower 15, and Cynthia Jodoin, BSN, RN, nurse manager of Tower 6, in December earned MHAs from the University of Phoenix.

Lorelei Dwyer, BSN, RN, of Tower 10CD, earned certification as a neuroscience registered nurse in November.

Scott Robinson, RN, of the MICU, in December earned his BSN from UMass Boston.

Lauren Sweeney, RN, of Tower 11C, in December received her BSN from UMass Boston.

Mary Willis, MSN, RN, CWOCN, a Wound and Ostomy nurse at BWH, in October graduated from the Wound, Ostomy, & Continence nursing program at Metropolitan University in Minnesota, and in January earned certification in Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing.

Susan Corrigan-Sheehan, BSN, RN, Elizabeth (Anne) Buckley-Robery, RN, Jocelyn Lim, BSN, RN, Lyn Odierno, RN, NIC, and Susan Lovell, RN, NIC all recently earned certification in OR Nursing.

Laurice Canning, BSN, RN, of the Thoracic SICU, in January became a clinical adjunct faculty member teaching critical care at Salem State College. In December, Canning completed the TB Resource Nurse class for BWH Occupational Health.

Donald Grimes, MSN, RN, PMC, a NIC in the MICU, in September was appointed adjunct clinical professor at Salem State College, where he teaches senior level students the critical care component of the curriculum.

Virginia Silva, MSN, RNC, CNS, FNP, of Connors Center 5, in November spoke and presented a poster on fetal aortic valve dilation at the International Pediatric Cardiology Nursing Symposium in Houston.

Martha Griffin, PhD, CS, RN, program coordinator in the Center for Nursing Excellence, in January participated in a team-building initiative at the Alaska Federal Health Care Partnership in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Griffin has been asked to speak across the country about lateral or horizontal violence, the label applied to interpersonal conflict in nursing.

Griffin published a study on the topic, which found that knowledge of lateral violence allowed newly licensed nurses to depersonalize it, ask questions and continue to learn, which positively affected the retention rate of this group of nurses. The study was published in the November/December 2004 issue of The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing