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Our nurses are at the top of their profession, bringing you and your loved ones the highest level of care. When you receive care in our community hospitals, your home, hospice or our academic medical center, you can be sure that your Tufts Medicine nursing team will treat you with compassion and respect.

At Lowell General Hospital, we are always finding new ways to recognize our employees for a job well done. It is important to give thanks and celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of our great team for their unwavering commitment to patients and our community.

Our nursing culture promotes nurse leadership, autonomy and professional development. We foster the professional and personal development of all our nurses.

Lowell General Hospital has earned accolades at both the regional and national level as a best place to work, and our nurses continue to be among the most highly-trained and well-regarded in the region. Beyond patient care, nurses are involved in interdisciplinary collaboration to improve protocols and embrace technology to transform the way we deliver care.

During Nurses Week each year, Tufts Medical Center honors excellence in nursing with an awards ceremony and reception. Nurses are nominated by their peers, leadership and patients, with a committee choosing the recipients. We are fortunate to have generous donors who sponsor two very special awards: The Ryan Compassionate Care Award and the Edward and Sylvia Jaye Excellence in Nursing Clinical Practice Award.

Using the IOWA Model of Evidence Based Practice and the Nursing Professional Practice Model, the pathway for nurse advancement begins at orientation and extends throughout employment.

The Novice Nurse Training Program at Tufts Medical Center is designed to support newly licensed nurses as they begin their professional careers within a busy academic medical center.

We are pleased to offer our clinical team ongoing professional development opportunities within Tufts Medicine Lowell General Hospital. This includes defining, implementing and maintaining educational standards that promote professional growth and ongoing clinical competencies for the nursing staff to support career advancement.

The members of the Department of Nursing work side-by-side with physicians and other healthcare professionals to serve the patients of Tufts Medical Center and the Tufts Medical Center. Our department strives to fulfill its vision of exemplary practice, innovation, scholarship and leadership by providing exceptional patient-centered care, partnering with both patients and practitioners, standing at the forefront of clinical research and training the next generation of nurses.

Exceptional healthcare depends on an outstanding team of practitioners—and nurses are an integral aspect of that care.

Nominate a Nurse Leader for the DAISY Nurse Leader Award®. Express your gratitude for the compassionate environment Nurse Leaders provide. Describe the impact a Nurse Leader has had on staff and the patient care they manage. Share stories and examples of how a Nurse Leader has made a difference.

“S.L.I.P.”
Into The Future
Scholarship. Leadership. Innovation. Practice

Three North Shore nurses who have spent much of the last year treating COVID-19 patients will get a well-deserved, and coveted, respite this weekend.

On Thursday, May 11, hospital leadership celebrated the accomplishments of our Patient Care Services team at the annual Nursing Excellence Awards held in the Clark Auditorium at the main campus. The event, held during Nurses Week, honors those who exemplify the unwavering commitment to patient care that is a hallmark of the nursing profession. Honorees were nominated for the award by their peers.

The Russell triplets are all nurses at Tufts Medical Center.

Fraternal twins Elizabeth and Katherine Conole were born at Lowell General Hospital and for the past 25 years have done most everything together.