School Of Nursing

Name: Doreen PaynterHonored by The Carroll County Sun for: Beingchosen Carroll County General Hospital's Nurse of the Year by her peers for her superb nursing skills and her caring and empathetic manner with patients and other staffAge: 32Residence; hometown: Westminster; BerrettEducation: 1976 graduate of South Carroll High School; 1981 graduate of the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Baltimore; 1987 graduate with a bachelor's of nursing science...

Peggy Lee Eldredge, a retired registered nurse, died Monday of pancreatic cancer at her Monkton residence. She was 70. Born Peggy Lee Schoepflin in Baltimore, she attended the old Eastern High School and in 1957 graduated from Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing. She went to work as a nurse for the Salvation Army's Camp Puh'Tok in Monkton, where her first patient was Robert W. Eldredge, who had been thrown from a mule, the family recalled. The couple married Oct. 5, 1958. In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Eldredge began working at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where she served in several departments, including the emergency room and the recovery room.

Ann Barnes Nice, a retired nurse and widow of a prominent Baltimore judge, died yesterday of respiratory failure at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 86.She was born Ann L. Barnes in LaPlata, Charles County, and educated there. She came to Baltimore in the early 1930s to enroll at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing and soon met Deeley K. Nice Sr., nephew of Harry W. Nice, who was governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939. They were married in 1934.Mrs. Nice lived the rest of her life in the Baltimore area, the last nine years at Edenwald.

Not all the tears shed at Friday night's graduation at the Harbor Hospital Center's School of Nursing were tears of joy.The 22 graduates dressed head to toe in white nurse's uniforms made up the last class that would light the traditional candles of Florence Nightingale, walk across the stage at Gruehn Auditorium and accept diplomas from the hospital's board of trustees.Rising health care costs and the nursing field's shift toward baccalaureate degrees have led Harbor Hospital officials to end the unusual 15-year-old program, which gives licensed practical nurses (LPN)

Catherine A. Dietrich, a registered nurse and nursing home case manager, died of heart failure April 8 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Rodgers Forge resident was 54. Catherine Posko was born in Baltimore and raised in Pasadena. She was a 1969 graduate of Severna Park High School and earned her nursing degree from South Baltimore General Hospital School of Nursing in 1971. Ms. Dietrich worked in the intensive care unit at what is now Baltimore Washington Medical Center from 1972 to 1983.

Margaret C. Zell, a retired visiting nurse who helped establish a nursing museum at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, died of kidney failure March 1 at Frederick Villa Nursing Home in Catonsville. She was 90. Margaret Culler was born in Frederick and raised in Feagaville, Frederick County. She was a 1934 graduate of Frederick High School and earned a degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1939. Mrs. Zell began her career at what was then University Hospital, and during the 1940s was in charge of a medical-surgical floor.

IF YOU HAVE always believed that 4-H programs are related only to livestock and simple youth skills, read on, you'll find there is much more.Since 1914, when the 4-H began in Maryland, more than 38,000 young people have participated not only in livestock, food, nutrition and citizenship programs but also have learned money management, business skills, computers and, now, a program to inspire today's youth to become tomorrow's scientists.That program, 4-H Adventures in Science, began in 1990 with a goal of promoting scientific literacy and inspiring young scientists to prepare for careers as engineers, doctors and other math and science professions.

Recognition Dr. Elliot Fishman, a professor of radiology and oncology and director of diagnostic imaging and body CT at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was named best radiologist in the United States in a survey of his peers by Medical Imaging magazine. Fishman was a pioneer in the development of 3-D medical imaging in cooperation with Pixar. His Web site, ctisus.com, has won a variety of awards and is visited by more than 50,000 medical professionals each month, according to the university. The survey ranked Hopkins' radiology department No. 1 in the country, and seven members were also in the top 10 in their disciplines.

Elizabeth Catherine Norwood, who pushed for tougher standards as a member of the Maryland State Board of Nursing Examiners for 28 years, died Thursday of a stroke at Broadmead in Cockeysville. She was 93. Appointed to the nursing board in 1940 by Gov. Herbert O'Conor, Mrs. Norwood served until 1968 - the last 16 years as board president. During her tenure, the board revised requirements for the state's nursing schools as medicine made rapid strides with the development of sulfa drugs, the polio vaccine and new surgical procedures.

Dr. Moshe Yair Levy has been named an instructor in oncology in the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center's division of hematologic malignancies. Levy earned his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993, and earned his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. Dr. Antonio Jimeno has been named an instructor of oncology in the center's gastrointestinal cancer program. He earned his medical degree from the University of Valladolid in Spain and his doctorate in oncology from the University of Madrid.