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Nurse Anesthetist Appointment to National Nursing Council Makes History
AANA member John Nagelhout first CRNA appointed to NACNEP
June 5, 2007
Park Ridge , Ill. – For the first time, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) will serve on the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP). American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) member John Nagelhout, CRNA, PhD, FAAN, was appointed by Michael Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to serve a four-year term that will end in September 2011. Click here to read more.
Suzanne Brown, CRNA, Recognized for Commitment to Global Health
April 19, 2007
Washington, D.C. – Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is pleased to announce that Suzanne Brown, CRNA, is a recipient of the second annual Golden Apple Award. As part of its World Health Day observances, HVO created this award as a way of recognizing the extraordinary educational contributions of volunteers to sites abroad. Each volunteer honored with this award has demonstrated a strong commitment to HVO’s educational mission by working on curriculum development, teacher training, didactic or clinical training, or the enhancement of educational resources. Click here to read more.
Major General Gale Pollock to Serve as Interim Army Surgeon General
March 14, 2007
Major General Gale Pollock, CRNA, has been selected to serve as the interim Army Surgeon General/Commanding General of the Army Medical Command. The resignation of Army Surgeon General Kevin C. Kiley, who submitted his request to retire on March 11, 2007, made it necessary to fill the vacated position during the interim. Major General Pollock will execute the duties of the Surgeon General/Commanding General of the Army Medical Command until a new officer is named. Click here to read more.
In Memoriam - VANA Loses Long-Time Member
November 9th, 2006
Brenda Bruce, 64, died November 9th, 2006 at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in White River Junction. She was a 1960 graduate of Windsor High School, received her nurses training at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego, California and graduated from Mercy Hospital School of Anesthesia in Springfield, Massachusetts. She married Murray Bruce on October 6th, 1973 in Isle La Motte. He died in 2004.
She worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts and most recently at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, Vermont as a CRNA. She was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Windsor where she was a former member of the Catholic Daughters of St. Francis. Survivors include one brother, Ronald Hamel Sr. of Windsor; two stepdaughters, including Beverly Saffle of Tabernash, Colorado and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral mass was celebrated on Tuesday, November 14th at St. Francis in Windsor by Reverend Paul Belhumeur. She was buried in St. Mary’s cemetery in Claremont, New Hampshire. Memorial contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to St. Francis of Assisi Church, P.O. Box 46, Windsor, VT or the Hospice Room at the VA Medical Center, 415 N. Main Street, White River Junction, VT 05009.
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