THE WORK WE DO
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1. Shannon Keesler, with patient Janiel Vitali, 9, says new computerized medical records are making nurses’ lives easier. “No more chasing charts around. We don’t have to go looking for orders. It just makes things so much more efficient. Everything just takes one click,” she says. 2. “I just enjoy working with the mothers and babies. I like helping them achieve new parenthood and helping them transition to becoming new parents,” says Ellen Bane Mahony, who has been working on ORMC’s post-partum unit for 31 years. Here she’s shown with newborn Josyah Williams. 3. Nurse of Distinction award winner Linda Piroleau, shown with patient George Burrow, has worked on ORMC’s pediatric, bone and joint and med/surg units for nine years. “I like helping people. It’s a rewarding field to be in. It can be a little scary, like when we get our respiratory babies,” she says. “It’s a lot of critical thinking. It’s good when they go home. It’s challenging and rewarding.” 4. Float nurse Michelle Dymond with newborn Vivienne Louise Sharp. Dymond has three kids of her own and works all over the hospital. “Every day I sign up and I go somewhere different, but I just love the mother-baby unit,” she says. “I just love the newborns. It’s just a happy environment and the staff is friendly and helpful.”
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May/June • Our Life And Times
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