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2001 D.C. NURSE PRACTITIONER AWARD GOES TO JANEEN CONSTANTINE April 12, 2002
Contact: So Young Pak, 202 877-2748;soyoung.pak@medstar.net
WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 12, 2002 - Janeen Ellis Constantine, a nurse practitioner at Washington Hospital Center for the past 13 years, has been selected to receive the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners' 2001 State Award for Excellence in the District of Columbia.
Constantine, a McLean, Va. resident who has worked for Cardiology Associates, P.C., since 1991, was nominated for the distinction by Stuart Seides, MD, the Hospital Center's associate
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"Janeen is an outstanding role model for all of us who look after patients and specifically for those in the nurse practitioner profession," Dr. Seides said.
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Constantine began her career in 1981 in pediatric cardiology, switching to adult cardiology, before joining the Hospital Center in 1989 to work for Augusto Pichard, MD, director of the Hospital
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"This is such a great honor," said Constantine.
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Born in Farmington Hills, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, Constantine earned a master's in pediatrics from the University of Michigan.She earned a post-master's degree in the nurse practitioner's program from The George Washington University.
As one of the first credentialed nurse practitioners, Constantine said there were very few places to work after she graduated.Now, "as the job has expanded people have become more appreciative of the role of a nurse practitioner and how we function in myriad settings, our numbers have grown.NPs are integral in the total care of patients," she said.
Award criteria included demonstrating that the candidate has made significant contributions to the improvement of patient, family, or community care, has a positive effect on clients and colleagues, and is a role model for other nurse practitioners and the nursing profession.The award will be presented at the AANP annual meeting in Reno, Nev., in June.But Constantine will be unable to attend, as she has plans for a visit to Voronezh, Russia, where she and her husband, Jay, adopted two children, Natasha, 10, and Alec, 11, in the 1990s.
Constantine and her husband are founders of Foundation for Health Enhancement of Russian Orphans, a program aimed at promoting maternal and child health in Voronezh, through demonstration and training programs and provision of vitally needed medicines, vitamins, and other supplies in this industrial region in southern Russia.
The AANP, the largest nurse practitioner association in the United States, has more than 13,000 individual members and 67 group members, representing more than 65,000 nurse practitioners.
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