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Page 12 • New Hampshire Nursing News June, July, August 2020 Nurses on the Web Cheshire Nurses Interviewed Ashley Thompson, RN and Chastity Hodgson, RN in Cheshire’s Emergency Department were interviewed for the Cheshire Medical Centers magazine Health and Wellness. Elliot Nurse Interviewed Mary Seigle RN, a Resource Nurse, in the CICU at Elliot Health System was interviewed for the Elliot Hospital website. Regarding caring for COVID-19 patients she noted “It’s extremely hard and wonderful all at the same time. I will now forever cry when I hear ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by the Beatles. That song is played when a COVID-19 patient is discharged from the hospital and nurses line the hallway to say goodbye. Memorial Hospital Pins New Graduates While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many school graduations to be cancelled, the nursing staff at Memorial Hospital made sure to honor their graduating student nurses with a traditional ceremony welcoming these new nurses to their profession. “A pinning ceremony is an invitation to graduates to join the nursing profession,” said Shauna Ross, RN, a member of the Memorial staff. “These students have all done their clinical rotations here and have worked hard.” Each of the students was awarded a pin. Usually, the nursing pin represents the student’s nursing school. Since their school pins were not available, Memorial awarded pins usually presented to recognize outstanding service by employees. Students also recited the Nightingale Pledge, promising to “practice my profession faithfully.” Joining them were a dozen or so other hospital nurses gathered to congratulate these new professionals and also reflect on their own service as nurses. Memorial Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Kris Dascoulias noted “Nursing is a profession that requires extreme knowledge and a willingness to put others above yourself. As you start your journey, remember you are not alone. As a nursing graduate, you have earned the right to wear a nursing pin.” Memorial has extended job offers to all of their graduating student nurses, an acknowledgement of the quality of this class and the way they have handled the extraordinary circumstances of their final semester. Graduates from White Mountains Community College included Natalie Harmon, Paige Lautenschlager, Emily Fournier, Nicholas Dukehart, David Frankowski, Amy Lindgren, Chelsea Schribner and Michael Kane. Elizabeth Hockmuth was a student at the University of Southern Maine: SNHMC Nurse Irene Arevalo BSN RN was recently highlighted on the Rivier University website. An alumnus, she practices at Southern NewHampshire Medical Center. “Never would I have thought I would be part of a pandemic let alone working on the very front line. But here we are. I must say we are doing a decent job in New Hampshire flattening White River Junction, VT VA Medical Center is seeking experienced Registered Nurses for the following clinical areas: Nurse Manager OR • Asst. Nurse Manager Addiction Treatment • Asst. Nurse Manager Mental Health • Night/Weekend Hospital Nursing Supervisor • ED • Primary Care • Med/Surg • OR • Occupational Health Other vacancies include: NP/PA (Float positions) • LPN (Dermatology, TeleHealth) • Nursing Assistants To learn more contact Regina.Radikas@va.gov OR look on USAJOBS.GOV RNs who join our team receive excellent benefits including: • 26 annual and accruable paid vacation days • 13 annual and accruable sick days • 10 paid Federal holidays • Retirement thrift savings plan with matching dollars • Tuition reimbursement after one year of employment for qualified employees I'm not just a nurse. I'm inventing a new model of health care. the line. The only thing we as healthcare providers can ask is for people to hang tight, continue staying home, and please pray and support your front line workers because although now called heroes, we are people just like you. Working directly with COVID patients has been challenging in many ways, but also rewarding in many others. I feel that nursing care has become more essential than ever in the care of patients, as things change quickly and unexpectedly. It brings me so much joy when a patient finally begins to improve, especially when we can celebrate the little things such as going for a short walk or taking a much-needed shower on their own. But the biggest cheers come with the discharge paperwork and the wheelchair ride to the car.” Maternity Nurse Hollyann DeCarteret, BSN, RN, a maternity nurse at Elliott Hospital, was profiled on the River University website. “It’s an ever-evolving situation and we are all trying to roll with the punches. I am a nurse and I absolutely love what I do. It’s a scary and emotional time, but in healthcare, we all have each other’s back and we are helping to rally each other. We are a family. We smile with our eyes (because you can’t see our mouths) and continue to care with every bit of our hearts.” Public Health Nurse on the Front Line Rivier University alumna Bobbie Bagley, RN is the Director of Public Health and Community Services in Nashua. In her profile on the school’s website they note that Bagley has been on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic for weeks, working with City officials and others to keep the community informed, prepared, and safe. “My job is to promote, preserve, and protect the health of our community and to lead the community response to emergent public health issues. The joint response to COVID-19 has been absolutely phenomenal. Everyone is working together including the City of Nashua, the Office of Emergency Management, hospitals, schools, and faith-based organizations. Together, as a community, we can stop the spread of COVID-19.” NHNA Nurse NHNA’s own Executive Director Joan Widmer, RN was profiled on the Rivier website. Joan has been keeping New Hampshire nurses informed regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. “The NHNA is addressing concerns raised from nurses around the state, staying informed on COVID-19 updates from the CDC, NH Department of Health and Human Services and the American Nurses Association and communicating this information through e-flashes and our website.” DHMC Nurse Danielle Finn, RN of DHMC was interviewed by ABC news. She speaks Portuguese and recently translated for a patient in the COVID-19 unit in addition to preparing language signs to assist Danielle Finn and DHMC co-workers. in communication. Fenn, who is originally from Brazil, was living in Germany before she came to the United States in 2004 to be with her late husband. Now, her international roots are playing an instrumental role in caring for her patients.
June, July, August 2020 New Hampshire Nursing News • Page 13 From the Bookshelf CURE COTTAGES OF SARANAC LAKE: Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort by Philip L. Gallos, 1985 Reviewed by Anita Pavlidis RN MSN For seventy years the name Saranac Lake was synonymous with tuberculosis. It meant mortal dread and at the same time transcendent hope. The only treatment available for the disease was both researched and dispensed in the isolated village in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest. In the process, a specific building type, the "Cure Cottage" was created. As a young man Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848–1915), watched his elder brother die of tuberculosis over a period of three months– at the time, the disease was incurable. He subsequently trained as a doctor, and, three years after completing his studies, was himself diagnosed with tuberculosis. Conventional thinking of the time called for a change of climate, and he went to live in the Adirondack Mountains, spending as much time as possible in the open, and he subsequently regained his health. In 1876 he moved to Saranac Lake and established a medical practice. In 1882, Trudeau read about success in treating tuberculosis with the "rest cure" in cold, clear mountain air. Following this example, Trudeau founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in February, 1885. With the fresh air treatment a whole technology developed and a building type known locally as a “cure cottage” developed. The requirement for fresh air lead Trudeau to avoid large institutional settings, feeling that a cottage-like structure would maximize the patient's exposure to light and air, and avoid the sanitation difficulties of a large institutional setting. Consequently, as the town's increasing fame drew more and more invalids, "cure cottages" began to spring up throughout the town. Many were created by simply adding glassed-in porches to existing houses. Others were built as cure cottages and/or apartment buildings, but all had "cure porches" with sliding glass windows, in which patients spent at least eight hours a day resting on special day beds or reclining chairs. The discovery that tuberculosis was contagious further contributed to Saranac Lake's importance as a cure center, as many other venues in the Adirondacks began to turn "consumptives" away. As a result, the village grew rapidly, from 533 in 1880 to 1,582 in 1890 to a peak of more than 6,000 by 1920. A number of different types of institutions developed: boarding houses and cottages, for relatively ambulatory patients; cottages that did not provide board, in which case meals would be provided by a nearby boarding cottage; "nursing cottages" for patients too weak to get around. Tuberculosis did not respect wealth or position; all levels of society were represented, from the first factory girls to scions of nationally prominent families. World War I caused another major increase in patients— the stress of war and the damage caused by mustard gas provided fertile ground for the tuberculosis bacillus. In 1944, an effective drug, streptomycin, was developed, and by the mid- 1950s, sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis was nearly entirely supplanted by drug treatment. Many of the cure cottages were converted into apartment houses, and some were torn down; some have been lovingly restored, and some badly renovated. Christy Mathewson "Cure Cottage" in Saranac Lake, New York. Taken by Mwanner. This book is of interest to history buffs, researchers wishing to understand the outdoor life once lived at Saranac Lake, and to architectural historians tracing the influence of that life on buildings all over the United States. The book was an interesting read however, the writing was methodical and detailed. Considerable space was devoted to the architecture and history of many of the cottages. It is a book that you can pick up and read and put down over a period of time, reflecting on the dark thread of tuberculosis throughout the fabric of American Life. The exploits of Saranac Lake parallel those of New Hampshire. The Glencliff Home for the Elderly, located in the White Mountains, was formerly the Glencliff Sanatorium, which opened in the summer of 1909 for New Hampshire residents infected with tuberculosis seeking respite and cure in the fresh mountain air. The New Hampshire State Sanatorium was located at Glencliff because the site's elevation of 1,650 feet would provide the fresh mountain air that was then thought to be therapeutic for tuberculosis patients. Glencliff was a self-sufficient community, designed to maintain the isolation that was part of the sanatorium concept. Its medical facilities included a hospital unit, an open ward, an x-ray facility, an operating room, and a microbiology laboratory. The campus encompassed 500 acres and included a farm with pigs and cows and a vast vegetable garden. Electricity, water, and sewage disposal were all provided by the nearby town of Glencliff. Coal was brought to the base of the mountain by train until the HUMOR ME Regularly exercising our sense of humor improves resiliency, positivity and balances anti-negatively. Laughter may not solve problems but can change your chemistry allowing you to face them anew. In this issue we present one-liners related to the COVID-19 pandemic. • What should you do if you don’t understand a coronavirus joke? Be patient. • If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14 day quarantine you probably should have seen a doctor long before COVID-19. • With hair salons, nail salons, waxing centers, tanning places and barbershops closed, it’s about to get ugly out there. • What’s the best way to avoid touching your face? A glass of wine in each hand. • Sign on a dating site: Single man w/TP seeks single woman w/Purell for good clean fun. • Grocery shopping has become a real life version of PAC-Man. Avoid everyone, get the fruit, and take any route to avoid contact. • Man looking at his calendar: Can’t wait until tomorrow. I have another big day of hand washing and looking out the window planned. railroad was discontinued in 1952. The sanatorium even had its own shortwave radio station. The sanatorium treated more than 4,000 TB patients during its first 50 years. When the outlook for patients with tuberculosis changed due to drug therapy Glencliff sent its last active tuberculosis patient to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, ending the sanatorium movement in New Hampshire. In 1970, the Glencliff Sanatorium was converted into the Glencliff Home for the Elderly. Many of the unique architectural features of the original facility have been preserved. The main patient building still has its floorto-ceiling windows that admit ample light. The sturdy columns that used to support the screened porches which were used for the open-air treatments have now been framed in to create patient rooms. Fresh air porch at Glencliff Sanatorium The themes of both the book and story of Glencliff Sanatorium are much the same as the COVID-19 world we live in today. Patients experienced isolation, sickness, loneliness, separation from family and friends, fear of never recovering, and loss of income/jobs. For many years, there was no effective treatment and worry about the patients returning to society as their health improved but were not cured of tuberculosis. But this period did end and although there was a tremendous loss of lives, people survived this time and met the challenges of that terrible time. We shall too. Anita Pavlidis, RN MSN was the former Director of Nursing at the NHTI, Concord’s Community College and Program Specialist at the New Hampshire Board of Nursing. • Nobody thought I’d amount to anything. But here I am lying on the couch, saving the world. • In 2021: Human Resources: I see a gap in your resume. What were you doing in 2020? Job hunter: Looking for toilet paper. • We are about three weeks away from finding out what everyone’s real hair color is. • Thinking a mask is going to stop COVID-19 is the same as thinking that your underpants will protect everyone from a fart. • Half of us are going to come out of the quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half will come out with a drinking problem. • Some of us need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator. • Public Service Announcement: Every few days try your jeans on, just to make sure they fit. Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom. • Day five of homeschooling: Which one of you called in a bomb threat? • A dog owner: Now I know why dogs are so excited to go for walks. • A cat owner: My cat is still trying to figure out why I’m in his house after 8 AM.
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