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A life’s work: Obstetrics nurse sees miracles every day

Friday, January 5th, 2007

<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="20070105;20230300" name="CREATED" /><meta content="20070105;20225700" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --></style>By Roger McBain</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Courier Press</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Susie Ludwig</strong> of Newburgh has been an obstetrics nurse for 26 years. She works at The Women’s Hospital in Deaconess’ Gateway Hospital campus.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">For Susie Ludwig, becoming an obstetrics nurse was never a career choice. From the start, she says, it was a calling.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Twenty-six years and countless deliveries later, Ludwig, a Newburgh grandmother of five, still heeds that call as clinical coordinator for The Women’s Hospital in Warrick County.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“I’m really blessed that I can get up in the morning and know I am coming to work here,” she says, glancing around the main nurse’s station in The Women’s Hospital in Deaconess’ Gateway Hospital campus.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“It doesn’t seem like a job to me — it just seems like what I am supposed to do.”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a href="http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/jan/05/lifes-work-obstetrics-nurse-sees-miracles-every-da/"><strong>Click here to read the rest of the story</strong></a></p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=5" title="View all posts in Inspiration" rel="category tag">Inspiration</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=11" title="View all posts in Profile" rel="category tag">Profile</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=72#respond" title="Comment on A life’s work: Obstetrics nurse sees miracles every day">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-59"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=59" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Michael Bleich, RN, PhD, FAAN, inducted into the American Academy of Nursing">Michael Bleich, RN, PhD, FAAN, inducted into the American Academy of Nursing</a></h3> <small>Wednesday, December 20th, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><span class="arttext" /></p> <table width="175" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"> <tr> <td><img width="175" height="250" border="1" src="http://www.kumc.edu/news/uploads/bleichcolor-smaller_001.jpg" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="artcaption">Michael Bleich, RN, PhD, FAAN</span></td> </tr> </table> <p><strong> Michael Bleich, RN</strong>, PhD, associate dean for clinical and community affairs at the University of Kansas School of Nursing, was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing, as one of the 2006 new Fellows on Nov. 11, 2006. He was nominated for this honor by two current Academy Fellows and was selected by the Academy’s fifteen-member Fellow Selection Committee for his outstanding achievements in the nursing profession. Bleich was formally inducted as a Fellow with 54 other nurse leaders during the Academy’s Annual Awards Ceremony in Miami, Fla.</p> <p>“Dr. Bleich’s dedicated work as an executive, educator and scholar has contributed to the discipline of nursing and influenced the practice of nurses in our region, nationally and internationally,” said Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, FAAN, dean of the KU School of Nursing and senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the KU Medical Center. “Academy recognition is an important reward for his outstanding achievements and visionary leadership.”</p> <p><a href="http://www.kumc.edu/news/publish/article_00860.shtml">Click here to read more of this story </a> </p> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=5" title="View all posts in Inspiration" rel="category tag">Inspiration</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=11" title="View all posts in Profile" rel="category tag">Profile</a> | <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=59#respond" title="Comment on Michael Bleich, RN, PhD, FAAN, inducted into the American Academy of Nursing">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-18"><a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?p=18" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Florence E. Knight, 95, Registered Nurse, Philomont">Florence E. Knight, 95, Registered Nurse, Philomont</a></h3> <small>Thursday, November 2nd, 2006</small> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=17309259&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506049&rfi=6">Times Community Newspapers - Florence E. Knight, Registered nurse, Philomont</a><br /> Florence Ethel Knight, 95, of Philomont, a retired registered nurse, died Sept. 29 at Loudoun Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Leesburg.</p> <p>Mrs. Knight was born June 20, 1911, in Edenwald, N.Y., to the late John and Hanna Spellman. She graduated from the Mount Vernon Hospital School of Nursing in New York in 1931. 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