Cone Hospital review [October, 1989]

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MEMORIAL. HOSPITAL
October, 1989
New Vice President of Nursing
Announced
Nancy J. Higgerson, R.N.,
B.S.N., M.A., will be joining
the administration of Moses
Cone Hospital on October
30 as Vice President of
Nursing.
After an extensive national
search, Ms. Higgerson was
chosen from a field of candidates for this leadership
position in nursing services.
She is currently Vice President of Nursing at Life Span,
Inc., in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has held nursing administration positions
at a number of other hospitals including Abbott-Northwestern and Health Affiliates, Inc., both in Minneapolis; South Miami Hospital in Florida; and St. Luke's
Hospital Medical Center in
Phoenix, Arizona.
She has received a
number of distinctions in
nursing including the 1985
Distinguished Alumni,
Southern Illinois University
at Edwardsville School of
Nursing award, the 1985
Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in
Management for Nurses at
the University of Pennsylvania, and the 1987 Constance Moline Award by the
Minnesota Organization of
Nurse Executives.
Ms. Higgerson maintains
professional memberships
in the American Organization of Nurse Executives,
American Hospital Asso
ciation, National League of
Nursing, American Society
of Nursing Service Administrators and the National
Commission on Nursing.
She received her nursing diploma from Missouri
Baptist Hospital School of
Nursing and was honored
as the top scholar in her
freshman and senioryears.
She then studied at the
Southern Illinois University
where she graduated with
honors with her bachelor of
science in nursing. Her
masters of arts in nursing
service administration is
from the University of Iowa.
As a staff nurse, she has
experience working in medical-surgical, psychiatry, intensive care and rehabilitation. She also has worked
as a Staff Development Coordinator.
Please join everyone at
Moses Cone Hospital in welcoming Nancy Higgerson
as she begins herwork here
on October 30.
Three MCH Nurses Honored
In Top 100 In State
Ed Kirkpatrick, Clinical Director of Medical Surgical
Services, Jean Mabe, Head
Nurse on Division 2000, and
Judy Webb, Clinician on
the Mother-Baby Unit, were
three of the honorees at
the "R.N. Excellence: The
Great 100" banquet in
Raleigh on September 9.
The three were chosen
by a committee of Registered Nurses from among
nominees representing 44
counties statewide. They
were selected on the basis
of their professional qualities and their contributions
to a positive image of nursing in their communities.
All 5,300 active registered
nurses in North Carolina
were eligible to be nominated for "The Great 100"
recognition. More than
1,000 nomination forms
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were mailed to all employers of RNs in the state and
to professional nursing
organizations.
This special recognition
was organized to salute registered nurses from all of
North Carolina who demonstrate excellence in practice and commitment to their
profession, as well as increase public awareness
about the nursing profession, and raise funds for
nursing scholarships.
Moses Cone Hospital was
a Patron sponsor of the
event, contributing $1,000
to the nursing scholarship
fund.
Lanty Smith Named To Board
Lanty L. Smith has been
named to the Board of
Trustees of The Moses H.
Cone Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Smith is Chairman of
the Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer of
Precision Fabrics Group,
Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-technology
specification textile products.
Prior to organizing Precision Fabrics, Mr. Smith
worked for Burlington Industries for 11 years. He
joined Burlington as Executive Vice President and
Senior General Counsel.
He was appointed President of Burlington in 1986,
a position he held until 1988.
Mr. Smith is a member of
the Board of Directors of
First Union Corporation. He
is also a Director of W.R.
Bonsai Company, the
United Way of Greater
Greensboro and the North
Carolina Institute of Politics, Inc. He is a member of
the Board of Visitors of Duke
University Law School,
Guilford College and A&T
State University and of the
Business Advisory Board
of the Bryan School of
Business and Economics of the University of
North Carolinaat Greensboro. He is also a member of the Board of Associates at the Center for
Creative Leadership and
a trustee of Greensboro
Day School and Greensboro Life-Care Retirement
Community, Inc.
Mr. Smith is a native of
Sherrodsville, Ohio. He
is married to the former
Margaret Hays Chandler
of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, who is a member of the faculty of University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. They have
three daughters, and they
reside in Greensboro.
Anita Sherer Honored
In Nursing Excellence
Judy Webb, Chairperson of the Nursing Excellence
Committee; Anita Sherer, Nursing Excellence Award
Winner; and Kaye Lani Rafko, Miss America 1988; pose
at the Nursing Excellence Ceremony.
This year's Nursing Excellence Day was an exciting and gala event celebrating and honoring nursing. The 24 nurses who
were nominated for this
year's award represented
both Moses Cone and
Greensboro Hospitals.
They all demonstrated
excellence in practice and
each were winners for
having received a nomination.
Anita P. Sherer, R.N,
M.S.N., was selected from
the nominees to receive this
year's award. Anita is a
Clinical Nurse Specialist on
Division 5100, the Medical
Telemetry Unit at Moses
Cone Hospital. She has
held this position since
September of 1988 when
she joined the staff at
Moses Cone Hospital.
Anita has been a nurse
since 1982 when she became a Staff Nurse at St.
Mary's Hospital in
Richmond, Virginia. She
worked on a general medical/surgical unit before
joining the coronary care
unit at St. Mary's. She
then joined the staff at Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia working on the coronary care
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