Nursing Excellence Fund
The Nursing Excellence Fund supports ongoing professional development opportunities and training for all nursing staff at Lake Charles Memorial Health System. The support from this fund ensures that our patients and community receive the best care possible from highly qualified and skilled nursing staff.
The nurses at Lake Charles Memorial Health System represent the largest nursing enterprise in southwest Louisiana. Working in a range of environments, roles, and medical services, LCMH nurses provide comfort and care to a wide variety of patients. It is the Foundation and the health system's mission to provide the highest quality of care to our community – what better way to do that than providing opportunities of excellence to our nursing staff.
Initiatives supported by the Nursing Excellence Fund include:
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Nursing Certification Programs
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Professional Development
A Real Impact
The Nursing Excellence Fund supported an initiative created and led by
Director of Oncology Nursing, Rae Gardiner. Registered nurses, both inpatient
and outpatient, daytime and nighttime, from the Oncology Department participated
in an Oncology Escape Room as part of their annual education and training.
The Oncology Escape Room fostered teamwork and collaboration, as well
as promoted skills development. RNs were involved in hands-on activities
that included topics of policy review, PPE use, hazardous drug administration,
chemotherapy orders and consent, dose calculations, hazardous spill management,
central care lines, and CLABSI prevention.
Thirty members of the oncology staff participated in this innovative approach to education.
“Our oncology team utilized an oncology escape room as part of our annual education and training. We considered the most challenging aspects for nursing tasked with caring for cancer patients and put those elements into the escape room scenario so that we could teach and challenge them – at the same time. This innovative approach to education and training could not be possible without the Nursing Excellence Fund from The Foundation.”
-Rae Gardiner, Director of Nursing, Oncology & The Foundation Board of Director Trustee
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