St. Agnes Welcomes New Nurse Manager to Intermediate Care Unit
July 2008
St. Agnes Hospital is proud to announce the addition of Carol D. Hiteshew, MS, RN, CNA-BC, to our nurse management team. She is managing our 20-bed Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU).
Accepting medical and surgical cases from our ED, PACU and AICU, the IMCU offers “more patient diversity and variety in the types of care we provide. It creates a challenging environment that keeps the work interesting,” according to Ms. Hiteshew. This is the professional challenge that she has been looking for in her career.
Carol has already set some aggressive immediate goals with recruitment and retention of experienced nurses as well as GNs as a top priority. This is to maintain their phenomenal 1:3 nurse-patient ratio. She is also implementing a campaign to involve every nurse and tech in keeping the unit well organized and maintained “to give recruits a good impression of the unit.” Additionally, Carol feels this will help to continue the feeling of team pride within the unit.
Ms. Hiteshew brings an extensive clinical background from the University of Maryland Medical Center and impressive academic credentials, including a BSN and MSN from the University of Maryland School of Nursing and certification in Nursing Administration.
For more information on Critical Care Nursing careers at St. Agnes Hospital, visit http://www.stagnes.org/careers/nursing.html.
Perioperative Departments at St. Agnes are growing!
May 2008
The Perioperative team at St. Agnes Hospital is proud to announce the opening of two new Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) rooms this June. With the completion of these rooms, our facilities now include twenty operating rooms as well as our new endoscopy wing. Within this setting, nurses have the unique opportunity to achieve multi-specialty competency or to specialize in just a few areas including:
- General, GYN, Vascular and Thoracic
- Orthopedic
- Neurosurgery
- Eye and ENT
- GI – Endoscopy Services
- Bariatric Center of Excellence
- Joint and Spine
- Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Pain Management
If you are a motivated and self-directed individual who enjoys team building and collaborative practice, please click HERE to view opportunities for Perioperative Nurses at St. Agnes Hospital. New graduates are also welcome to apply to our comprehensive Perioperative Nurse Internship program.
St. Agnes Earns Top Honors in ADVANCE for Nurses Readers’ Choice Hospital List
October 2007
 ADVANCE for Nurses magazine announced that St. Agnes Healthcare is one of the “top hospitals” in the magazine’s first Reader’s Choice survey for the areas of MD/DC/VA.
Voting was open to RNs who ranked a selected hsopital in areas that matter to nurses: quality of care, organizational culture, professional development, communication and retention efforts.
ADVANCE provided a list of 159 hospitals in the MD/DC/VA region and invited readers to rank their facility by responding on a 1-5 scale to 50 statements. Scoring top honors in all five categories earned St. Agnes Healtcare a spot on the Reader’s Choice Honor Roll.
 St. Agnes Tech Recognized by Students at
the University of Maryland
October 2007
James Hession, a lead technician for core laboratory operations, has been named Outstanding Clinical Instructor by the 2007 graduating class of the Department of Medical Research Technology of the University of Maryland.
About four students per year spend their final semester working full-time in a lab setting. Hession facilitates the students’ training and education in medical technology when they are in clinical rotations in the lab. He’s worked at St. Agnes for five years. |
