THE DALLAS POST/Wednesday, August 6, 1986 15
Seminar planned |
The Respiratory Care Consortium, a group of area nursing educators, review plans for a seminar Pledge made
entitled ‘‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)’’ scheduled for Thursday, October 9, The Meadows Nursing Center Auxiliary President Dianne T. Corby recently presented a $2,000
1986 at the Luzerne County Community College Educational Conference Center. For the ninth pledge card to Raymond Condo, Executive Director of EEI, to support the Capital Gifts
consecutive year, the seminar is co-sponsored by the American Lung Association of N.E: Campaign currently underway to provide a combination chapel-meditation area on the first floor
Pennsylvania and the American Lung Association of Wyoming Valley (a division of Lehigh of the Meadows Nursing Center in Dallas. The auxiliary pledged that amount to the center to
Valley). Seated and reviewing plans from left are Martha Kokinda, RN (College Misericordia); purchase furnishings and accessories for the chapel. The funds were mainly raised through a
John Williams (A.L.A. of Lehigh Valley); Karen Wrublewski, RN (Luzerne County Community flea market sponsored by the auxiliary and held at the center in June. To date, the auxiliary has
College); Gloria Blanar, RN (Veterans Administration Medical Center); and Deborah Stepanski, pledged $4,000 toward this project, scheduled for completion this summer. Shown here, from
RN (Wilkes-Barre General Hospital). Absent from photo are Geraldine Evanko, BN (White Haven left, are Raymond Condo, Executive Director, Ecumenical Enterprises, Inc.; Dianne T. Corby,
Center); Romaine Shubzda, RN (Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center and Raymond Auxliary President; and Thomas Sweeney, Administrator, Meadows Nursing Center.
Bechtel (A.L.A. of N.E. Pennsylvania).
Informational brochures have been mailed to area health care facilities, Schools of Nursing and : EE — hd
Respiratory Therapy. Further details may be obtained by contacting Miss Wrublewski at the
Veterans Administration Medical Center, 824-3521 extension 7451.
Hospital volunteers
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital in Kingston has again received many new summer volunteers. About
45 candystripers have participated in an orientation to the hospital. They are instructed in the
) proper ways to use the wheelchairs, make beds and feed patients. A tour of the hospital is also
ww ® included. These volunteers assist various nurses’ stations, as well as the following departments:
X-ray, Pharmacy, Central Supply, Emergency Room Registration, Physical Therapy, the
Information Desk, and the Gift Shop. A pizza party will be given for all of the young students at
the end of their session. The candystriper program is coordinated under the auspices of the
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, and Paula Denisco serves as coordinator. These young
women have gone through candystriper orientation and are serving Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
this summer. Shown in the photo at right are, from left, first row, Lynnette Reisser,
Edwardsville; Zoe Daszkiewicz, Kingston; Heidi Hartman, West Pittston; Lisa Novak, Pittston;
and Candy Williamson, Kingston. Second row, Candystripers Shellie Ulitchney, Wilkes-Barre;
Karen Mesaros, Forty Fort; Brenda Whitesell, Hunlock Creek; JoAnn Maday, Shickshinny; and
Kim Niezgoda, Dallas. Third row, Candystriper Program Coordinator Paula Denisco, Instructors
Betsy Truzcinski R.N. and Cathy Chiampi, R.N., Candystripers Lori Waslofski, Forty Fort;
Tammie Kioske, Edwardsville; Lisa Dzeivak, Kingston; Lisa Romashko, Luzerne and Margaret
Tarnalicki, Plains.
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