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Luxury Cars of Charleston treats nurse of the year with vehicle by Heather Woolwine Public Relations At the May 12 Nurses’ Week awards ceremony, Hannah Weiner, R.N., 8West, was named the 2006 MUSC Nurse of the Year.   Registered nurse Hannah Weiner, 8West, was named the MUSC Nurse of the Year. She will receive one year's use of luxury vehicles from Luxury Cars of Charleston. “I was totally shocked, I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t been at MUSC very long and didn’t know about the Nurse of the Year [award]. It is a huge, incredible honor and I want everyone to know that this award is really representative of the floor where I work. I wouldn’t have gotten it without being part of such a great team.”     In addition to the Nurse of the Year title, Weiner also received one year’s use of luxury vehicles from Luxury Cars of Charleston at 1739 Savannah Highway in West Ashley. Because the cars must stay in a sales rotation, Weiner will have to occasionally trade in her current luxury car for another, making it a BMW one month, and then maybe a Mercedes the next. And what better to go with a beautiful car than a reserved place to park it? Weiner was also designated her own parking spot on campus, in addition to other goodies and prizes. “I feel so privileged to work where I do and win an award for doing something that I love to do,” she said.   Mitch Rubenstein, owner of Luxury Cars of Charleston, said, “My wife is a nurse and I know how critical they are to health care and they often don’t get the credit that they deserve. This was a way that we at Luxury Cars of Charleston could give credit where credit is due.”     As Weiner eased into the front seat of a silver, convertible BMW, she sighed and flashed a bright smile, “A year of driving cars like this and I’ll become a car snob. I don’t think my Honda’s ever going to be the same.”   Friday, May 26, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publication at 849-1778, ext. 201.