Center celebrates frontliners

The Center for Practical Bioethics will honor those serving on the medical front lines during an event Sept. 8.

The inaugural event, Celebrating with Frontliners, will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.

The event will honor nurses, chaplains, social workers and allied health care professionals.

Helen Emmott, RN, BSN, MA, serves as an honorary chair for the nursing part of the program.

“A lot of the frontliners don’t receive the attention,” Emmott said. “I’m so excited to honor the people who really do ethics at the bedside.”

Emmott teaches ethics at Rockhurst University and The University of Missouri-Kansas City.

“The nurse is the anchor on the front line,” Emmott said. “My drive as an educator for nurses and nursing students is to provide them with tools and knowledge that I didn’t have as a frontliner.”

Nationally known humorist Hob Osterlund, RN, MS, CHTP, will provide entertainment during the celebration.

Osterlund performs a sit down comedy routine as “Ivy Push.” According to her Web site, www.ivypush.com, the routine offers “a hilarious monologue on such issues as euthanasia, the doctor-nurse relationship, and resuscitation of the terminally ill. Now and then Ivy regresses reluctantly to answer a random patient call light, and lets slip a piece of what’s left of her mind.”

Emmott said she thinks nurses will enjoy the routine.

“We wanted this to be an event that was in honor of nurses,” Emmott said. “We also wanted it to have a light air about it. … It takes a lot of courage and a lot of energy to do what nurses do every day.”

Registration for the event starts at $35. For more information, visit practicalbioethics.org.

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