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NIH Clinical Center celebrates National Nurses Week and all those who serve our patients and the research mission in Building 10

Clinical Center News

Nursing leadership staff serves breakfast for night shift nurses
Nurses working the late shift enjoy breakfast served by their department’s leadership as a part of Nurses Week at the NIH Clinical Center, May 6-12, 2019. The hospital highlighted and celebrated the important work nurses do to promote patient care and wellness. Of note, the Clinical Center has one of the largest concentration of nurses with a special focus on clinical research.
 
Three women photographed with an award
Rachel Perkins (first on the right) was the Tannia P. Cartledge Clinical Research Nursing Mentorship Award for leading and mentoring the Clinical Research Nurses of the future through the residency program. Cartledge died in 2018, her daughter Alyssa (first on the left) and chief nurse Gwen Wallen presented the plaque.
 
Jessica Gill, Lasker Scholar
Dr. Jessica Gill, a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and Senior Investigator in the Tissue Injury Branch at the National Institute of Nursing Research, presented Clinical Center Grand Rounds lecture titled Symptom Science: Discovery Leading to Personalized Health. Gill researched the rates of PTSD in urban health care seeking women.
 

- Debbie Accame and Maria Maslennikov