The nurses featured in The American Nurse book and video project include, seated from left, Mary Jo Maloney, RN; Georgina DeLoatch, RN; Sandra Barnes, RN-BC; Bridget Kumbella, RN; and standing from left, Rhonda Collins, RN; Brendan Hunt, RN; Monica Oberlander, RN; Mohamed Yasin, RN; Joan O’Brien, RN, director of nursing, Wakefield; Maureen Eisele, RN; Mary Kate Walker, RN; and Carolyn Jones, photographer and interviewer. Not pictured: Dianne Barthelemy, RN; and Mary Helen Barletti, RN.
(Photo courtesy of Montefore Medical Center)
Photo by Tracey Boyd, Nurse.com Maureen Eisele, RN, signed her page in The American Nurse book for visitors at the Dec. 3 book signing event at Montefiore Medical Center.
Joined by the project’s photographer/interviewer, the nurses signed copies of the book for colleagues and friends.
Photographer/interviewer Carolyn Jones explained the project to attendees in a short presentation. Rhonda Collins, RN, MSN, who commissioned the book, then presented a copy to Joan O’Brien, RN, MSN, Montefiore’s director of nursing, "so that there would always be a copy at [Montefiore]," Collins said.
Photos by Tracey Boyd Publisher Rhonda Collins, RN, expressed her appreciation to Montefiore’s Joan O’Brien at the book signing.
Tracey Boyd is a regional reporter.
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