A nurse leader extends acute care nursing beyond the hospital walls.
Connie Hill, MSN, RN, director of a 30-bed unit at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
It was at a 2002 meeting at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago that Connie Hill, MSN, RN, reviewed the chart of a child who had been on a ventilator in her unit for two years. She asked her colleagues why the child had not been discharged. “It wasn’t because she was not medically stable,” Ms. Hill said recently, “but because there was a lack of community resources to support her.”