James@ncar.UCAR.EDU (James) (07/04/89)
Taken from _Capital Update_. Publication of the American Nurses Association.
PHS AWARDS FOR NURSES
October 1989 will be observed as AIDS Awareness and Prevention Month. One of
the ways in which the Public Health Service (PHS) will participate is to honor
nurses in American who have exhibited leadership and compassion for people with
AIDS and HIV infection in the exercise of their professional duties. The
Assistant Secretary for Health, James O. Mason, M.D., will be presenting
Assistant Secretary for Health Awards to 10 deserving nurses on October 4, 1989
in Washington, D.C.
The broad criteria established for these awards is that the individual must be
a Registered Nurse with a minimum of three years' experience as a direct care
provider for people with AIDS, either as part of his or her usual job or as a
volunteer within the territorial U.S. Extra consideration will be given for
participation in such activities as community involvement/outreach programs,
recruitment, special care programs, professional organization involvement,
publications, and other innovative efforts to ensure care for people with AIDS.
Nominations for these awards will be accepted until August 15, 1989. Letters
of nomination, along with a curriculum vitae and a photograph of the nominee
should be sent to: Jim Brown, Director, News Division, Office of
Communications, U.S. Public Health Service, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room
717H, Washington, D.C. 20201. Telephone (212) 245-6867.
Dr. Mason has appointed a selection panel to review nominations and choose the
winners. The panel consists of: O. Marie Henry, R.N., DNSc., Chief Nurse
Officer, U.S. Public Health Service; Donna R. Richardson, J.D., R.N., Director
of congressional and Agency Relations, American Nurses Association; Mike
Merdian, Executive Director, National Association of People with AIDS; Dorothy
Ward-Wimmer, R.N., (one of last year's winners) Clinical Specialist, Children's
Hospital National Medical Center; and Jim Brown, Director, News Division,
Office of Communications, U.S. Public Health Service.
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