‘Can you protect my dad?’: 7-year-old Staten Island girl’s heartbreaking letter to Santa about doctor dad
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A 7-year-old Staten Island girl wants just one thing from Santa this year for her father to be safe.
In a letter to Santa Claus, Bianca, of Huguenot, asked him to keep her father, Jeremy, who is an emergency room doctor in the Bronx, safe while he’s helping sick people.
(Photo courtesy of Jerry Moriarty)
“Can you please protect my dad? He is helping sick people and we want him to be safe. He makes us so happy,” Bianca wrote in her letter to Santa.
A hiker in Connecticut recalled his close encounter with an injured bald eagle and his comical effort to rescue it before Wednesday s snowstorm.
Santa took toys to the children in the hospital s pediatric unit, something health care workers say is much appreciated. Kids just light up they do this every year and when they come to the floor you see the costumes and how great they look and the kids just light up turns around their whole stay, pediatric nurse manager Joann Stuart said.
While Santa usually hands off the toys to the children himself, COVID precautions prevented that this year.
Nursing students need hands-on experience (opinion)
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
A lack of hands-on learning deprives students of experiences essential to their formation as nurses. The hard truth is that nursing students cannot learn hands-on care from a book or a computer.
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By Faculty of Wagner College’s Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing.
The first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic caused health care organizations, colleges and universities to close their doors to students, including those studying nursing. Across the nation, nursing education moved online and students cared for virtual patients.
While these efforts saved personal protective equipment for the clinicians who needed it most and limited the number of people in facilities to “flatten the curve,’ teaching and learning suffered.
NYPD teams up with Santa to deliver gifts to children at RUMC
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
The NYPD and Santa teamed up to give gifts to hospitalized children at RUMC.(Staten Island Advance/Jordan Hafizi)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. During a holiday season like no other, NYPD officers are making this Christmas one to remember for children at Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC)
At a little after 11 a.m. on Tuesday, multiple police squad cars made their way down Bard Avenue in West Brighton to the hospital. Some of the police cars had their sirens blaring while others played familiar holiday tunes as Santa waved to onlookers and hospital staff.
Staten Island coronavirus deaths cross grim milestone in Dec.; hospitalizations drop 2nd day
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. More than 100 Staten Islanders have died this month from coronavirus (COVID-19) complications, the latest city Health Department data shows.
Another eight deaths reported Wednesday afternoon increased the borough’s overall suspected COVID-19 death toll to 1,238 including 107 in December.
At the same time, 324 new confirmed coronavirus cases were reported on Staten Island in the past 24 hours, according to the most recent data available.
An additional 243 were recorded from Monday to Tuesday.
The fatalities include 1,043 Staten Islanders with confirmed COVID-19 cases, up six from Tuesday.