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Nursing Care
Great Nurses Don’t Wait to Be AskedShe wanted to help one patient. She helped a whole country.The mother was lying on the floor. The newborn baby was placed on a rusty metal shelf. The clinic staff asked the mother to clean herself up, take her baby and move on.The American nurse who was watching knew that she had to bring a higher level of care to the war-torn African nation of Liberia. She envisioned a spotless clinic with clean sheets on the beds and a staff who treated patients with dignity. And Mable Humphrey made it happen. In fact, she made it happen twice. Mable Humphrey, a nurse at Lehigh Valley Hospital, established a clinic that helped hundreds of people every day, with the support of Greater Shiloh Church in Easton and Pastor Fred Davis. When bombing from the civil war destroyed that clinic, Mable, her pastor and her church built a bigger and better clinic, with an emergency room, a general practice area and a mother-baby unit. And when Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the newly elected president of Liberia, learned what Mable and her church had done, she personally invited Mable and her Shiloh team to her inauguration. A Magnet for great nurses is a Magnet for patients, a Magnet for the community — and a Magnet for the entire world. The strength of great nurses An official designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center This page last updated 2/12/08 04:08 PM
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Q: What is a Magnet hospital and what does it mean for my care?A: The American Nurses Credentialing Center awards Magnet designation – the highest level of recognition for nursing excellence – to hospitals that create an environment where nurses can flourish in their profession and have a proven level of excellence in nursing care.
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