Celebrate Nurses Week '98...
Congratulations to Jefferson Nurses

Congratulations to all of our nurses for their outstanding professionalism and commitment to excellent patient care. Jefferson nurses bring their extraordinary skills to our hospitals, nursing homes, extended care and sub-acute care facilities and other community health settings, to the offices of our physicians and to the classrooms of our affiliated schools. We thank them for the enormous contribution that they make to the high quality of care for which Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is recognized.

"Jefferson Nurses CARE" is the theme for this year's Nurses Week at Jefferson Hospital. Celebratory activities will take place from May 5 to May 8, and will highlight our nurses in their four key roles as: Clinicians, Administrators, Researchers and Educators.

Michelle Deck, RN, BSN, MEd, ACCE-R, a nationally renowned nurse educator, will be the keynote speaker on Thursday, May 7 and will present motivational and informative sessions to the nursing staff, including: "Wear Your Rose Colored Glasses," "Balancing Your Personal and Professional Life: Breaking Out of the Box," and "Know White and her 7 Learners." Please check nursing unit poster for exact times and location.

Other activities for Jefferson's celebration will include:

• A professional poster exhibit to display some of the innovative and creative ways that Jefferson Nurses practice to improve patient care
• A contest to name the new model of nursing care delivery which was implemented on nursing units in June 1997.
• A video which will illustrate Jefferson nurses in their daily roles of Clinicians, Administrators, Researchers and Educators and which will also announce the winner of the "name the model" contest.