Cooper Announces the 2011 Nursing Excellence Award Winners

These prestigious, peer-nominated awards honor the work of the recipients, whose leadership and practice promote the delivery of quality healthcare at Cooper. Each award, together with Nurse of the Year, has its own set of criteria for eligibility, including three letters of recommendation from staff within each nominee’s clinical discipline.

Nurses at Cooper Celebrate One Year Anniversary of Shared Governance Council Structure

Almost a year ago today, a team of 74 staff nurses, together with nursing leadership, set out to develop a new shared governance model at Cooper that allows direct care nurses the opportunity to participate in the decision-making process on all issues affecting the nursing profession including practice standards, policies and procedures, education and operation.

Final Beam Raised Into Place at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

The single largest construction project in the City of Camden this year took a significant step forward today when the final girder for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University’s (CMSRU) building was raised into place. In what is traditionally a major milestone in any construction project, the placing of the final beam was the highlight of a “topping off” ceremony.