{"id":70079,"date":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-college-of-nursing-honors-top-alumna-for-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-college-of-nursing-honors-top-alumna-for-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/05\/uri-college-of-nursing-honors-top-alumna-for-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing honors top alumna for 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHeart-rending experiences mold honoree into compassionate professional<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2004 — When Marie Ghazal was a freshman nursing student at the 溏心vlog免费B站, her 32-year-old aunt died of ovarian cancer and then in her senior year, her father died of bone cancer.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I remember the love and family support given to my aunt,” Ghazal said, “and I still remember the nurses who took care of my father and who supported my family. At this devastating time in my life, I saw how nursing played such a supportive role.”<\/p>\n


\n\tWhat she learned during those times of loss about compassion, commitment to the patient and to the patient\u2019s family, have stayed with her through 27 years of professional nursing service.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor her outstanding contributions to the profession, the East Providence resident who grew up in Central Falls was named the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing Alumna of the Year for 2004.<\/p>\n


\n\tCurrently the vice president of nursing and patient care at the Providence Community Health Centers Inc., Ghazal was honored by faculty, students, alumni and co-workers during recent ceremonies at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe recounted her days at 溏心vlog免费B站, standing in front of Butterfield Dining Hall at 7 a.m. waiting for a bus to take her and her peers to their clinical rotations in the hospitals. “We were the students walking around campus with index cards so we could memorize our diagnoses,” she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter graduating, she completed a one-year internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then stayed on for five more years in medical-surgical nursing.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe earned her master\u2019s degree at Boston University, and then became a visiting nurse. Her career also included stints as a clinical instructor at Rhode Island College and Salve Regina University.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn 1985, she became the clinical director of the Community Health Center in Central Falls, and in 1990, she began at the Providence Community Health Centers Inc., the largest primary care health provider in Providence with 30,000 patients.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn her current position as vice president, she administers the center\u2019s clinical operations, school-based clinics, the Women\u2019s Prison Project and the Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic. As chief nursing officer, she is responsible for all nursing practice issues in the organization.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe developed new patient services to improve HIV education, diabetes education, women\u2019s cancer screening, prenatal care and adolescent clinics, and she helped lead the agency to its accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.<\/p>\n


\n\tGhazal told the audience that her fellow nurses are dedicated, consummate professionals. “I tell young people that anyone can make money, but not everyone can make a difference,” said the wife and mother of two daughters and a son.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe told the group that nurses are consistently ranked among the most trusted and honest professionals. “There is this public perception of nurses that they put the patient\u2019s interests and welfare first,” Ghazal said. “Make sure you take the extra step because you\u2019ll be doing the right thing.”

\nFor Further Information: Dayle Joseph 401-874-2766<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heart-rending experiences mold honoree into compassionate professional KINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2004 — When Marie Ghazal was a freshman nursing student at the 溏心vlog免费B站, her 32-year-old aunt died of ovarian cancer and then in her senior year, her father died of bone cancer. “I remember the love and family support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}