Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey hosted the annual Newark Public Schools (NPS) Nurse Competency Training Day. Newark Public School officials also honored City Council President Mildred C. Crump for her dedication to Newark’s youth. Newark Beth Israel renamed the day in honor of the city’s municipal council president, it is now: “Mildred C. Crump Nurses Training Day at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey”.
Approximately 125 nurses attended the training where they took part in a number of simulations and lectures on a wide array of topics including, CPR and emergency response training, catheterization training, ventilator support skills, diabetes management, behavioral health care, allergies and skin care, and immobility transfers, to name a few.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is a 665-bed regional care teaching hospital that provides comprehensive health care. Newark Beth Israel is home to one of the nation’s top ten heart transplant centers, which has performed more than 1,000 heart transplants; RWJBarnabas Health’s Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program; New Jersey’s only Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program and a Valve Center that performs complex cardiac valve procedures, including minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacements.
Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, located at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, cares for children from birth through adolescence, with more than 30 specialized pediatric services including New Jersey’s largest Valerie Fund Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders; and the Children’s Heart Center that offers a complete range of medical and surgical treatments for the most complex cardiac abnormalities.
