November 8, 2002
The nursing profession is a complex field that offers many career options. The broad range of nursing specialties encompasses every component of the medical spectrum. However, medical nursing – the very foundation of nursing – sometimes is overlooked as a highly specialized form of the profession. Medical nurses work in the general medical units and the medical intensive care units and often care for the sickest patients with a variety of complex medical problems.
A group of MGH staff nurses recently
formed a committee called the Medical Nurse
Group to help educate
the MGH community about medical nursing as a specialty. The committee
represents nurses from Bigelow 11, Blake 7, Ellison 16, Phillips 20, Phillips
21, White 8, White 9, White 10 and White 11.
The group has selected Nov. 13 to celebrate medical nursing at the MGH and will showcase the many aspects of medical nursing with a special information display in the Main Corridor that day, from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm. For more information about Medical Nurse Day at the MGH, call Kate Barba, RN, at (617) 726-2754 or Adele Keeley, RN, at (617) 726-2594.
Above, Beth Donnelly, RN, left, and Katia
Romano, RN, are medical nurses at the MGH.
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