The Saint Barnabas Health Care System and Felician College garnered grant support from the Wachovia Foundation to establish a Clinical Nursing Residency Program in January 2006. The program began at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ with seven senior Bachelor of Science Degree nursing students participating. “ The beauty of this program is that students gain practical knowledge at the bedside, something they do not experience in the classroom setting,” said Nancy Holecek, R.N. Senior Vice President for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
In this unique 15-week program, nursing students are assigned to a registered staff nurse who serves as their program preceptor during their once-a-week, 13-hour shift, thereby enabling each nursing resident to gain valuable insight into a nurse’s caseload.
Successful Clinical Nurse Residency Program participants are actively recruited for nursing positions within the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
On December 8, 2004, the Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS), Liberty Science Center (LSC) and New Jersey Sharing Network (NJSN) partners joined together to launch Live From….. Kidney Transplant sm classroom program, a live interactive videoconference program for New Jersey high school students. This program presents live kidney transplant surgeries, both a living donor and recipient, from the operating rooms a Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Under the direction of Stuart Geffner, M.D., Director of Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division, SBHCS, and his kidney transplant surgical teams, this program is presented in the Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Islami Auditorium. Saint Barnabas Medical Center will continue to host this program through June 2007 during Liberty Science Center’s construction project and will then videoconference directly to students at Liberty Science Center’s new facility in Jersey City, NJ.
The Kidney Transplant sm classroom program focuses on educating young people about kidney disease, the importance of organ donation and health career opportunities. Since the program opened, more than 1,656 students from 43 high schools and middle schools have participated in 23 Kidney Transplant sm programs.
Roche and BD provided sponsorship grants to the Saint Barnabas Health Care System Foundation to underwrite this program.
The Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Program held its inaugural charity event at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center with a performance of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance. Three hundred guests attended this gala evening to support the MS program’s education, outreach and patient care programs. Grant support for this event was received from Amgen, BiogenIdec, Serono and Teva Neuroscience.
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