After the year we ve had, how could we possibly express or thanks to all the Monmouth & Ocean County Nurses as National Nurses Week begins? Let s start by saying it a lot. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Then we ll start thanking them one at a time.
We re not sure thanking them one at a time is even possible, but we can start by focusing in on one very special nurse in our midst, and that s Nancy Kerr, a true local hero who has been on the front lines of the pandemic since the beginning.
Nancy Kerr, RN, MSN, CIC is the Director of Infection Prevention at Hackensack Meridian Health s Ocean Medical Center in Brick. She was recently honored by HMH for her outstanding commitment to nursing excellence, especially during the COVID pandemic.
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Ten hospital and health system CEOs have created a Declaration of Principles to protect their healthcare workforce.
The CEO Coalition came about earlier this year as CEOs from across the country convened virtually to examine standards of safety and trust for healthcare team members at every level of their organizations, according to the CEO Coalition. The goal is to collectively take action to protect the wellbeing of essential team members and ensure they have the systems, tools, technologies and resources they need and deserve to feel safe at work.
The founding partners are from the medical communications company Vocera and from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
A nurse who treated COVID-19 patients, her boyfriend, and her father were killed in a New Jersey house fire that police are investigating as a possible murder-suicide.
The victims, identified by neighbors as Katherine Guiterrez, 34, her father Carlos, and her boyfriend Nic, were pronounced dead at the scene on Monday night.
Evidence at the site of the fire on Jackson Avenue in Wayne, New Jersey, indicated a possible-murder suicide, sources told WABC-TV.
Investigators have not commented further on how the three victims died, or on who is suspected of carrying out the murder suicide.
Guiterrez and her boyfriend leave behind a four-year-old daughter, Adrianna, as well as her three sisters and her mother.
Father, daughter, her boyfriend die in New Jersey house fire
Updated May 05, 2021;
A 34-year-old woman, her boyfriend and her father have been identified by family and friends as the victims in a Passaic County, N.J., house fire on Monday night.
The victims were identified by neighbors and on a GoFundMe page as Carlos Gutierrez, his daughter Katherinne and her boyfriend.
“Fire and pain is what is left in our family’s heart because we as the four sisters left lost a sister, our mother with 4 children lost her husband, our niece who is only 4 years old is now left without a father and a mother,” a GoFundMe page stated.