Nursing Units Give Back

Nursing units at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital celebrated National Nurses’ Week by conducting community projects. The projects included:

The medical/surgical and intensive care units held a clothing and small appliance drive for the Church Attic which sells the items and donates proceeds to the local food bank.

The obstetrics floor accepted donations for the Maternity Closet at St. Eulalia’s Church.

The emergency department adopted two hospital staff members whose spouses are battling cancer. The department accepted donations during Nurses’ Week to make care baskets.

Home health and hospice gave back to the community by setting up a free blood pressure clinic.

The inpatient behavioral health staff visited those in senior housing centers to take blood pressures, visit, and discuss health concerns they may need some help with as well as provide patient education handouts.

The long term care staff is sponsoring five area students who have been selected to perform at Lincoln Center in New York City on June 21. The students are Hanna Greene, Heather Greene, and Cami Montgomery and long term care volunteers Holly Barshinger and Luke Barshinger. Their music teacher is Sheri Greene.

Nursing leaders also made a board which included survival bags for newly hired general nurses preparing for their state boards.