{"id":24315,"date":"2017-05-19T03:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=24315"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:32:07","slug":"celebrating-nursing-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/05\/19\/celebrating-nursing-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Nursing Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left to right, Nicole Encarnacion, Rebecca Fernandez and Jennifer Belen were among those f\u00eated at Louis Brier Home and Hospital on May 9 during Nursing Week. (photo by Dolores Luber)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think one\u2019s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.\u201d \u2013 Florence Nightingale<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dr. Irving and Phyliss Snider Campus for Jewish Seniors \u2013 the Louis Brier Home and Hospital and the Weinberg Residence \u2013 held a party on May 9 to celebrate National Nursing Week.<\/p>\n

Louis Brier chief executive officer David Keselman, at the helm for nine months now, initiated the celebration \u2013 the first time in its history that Louis Brier has marked the occasion. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate the profession daily, but National Nursing Week presents the chance to give back to these integral members of society. International Nursing Day, May 12, is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, who is widely considered the founder of modern nursing.<\/p>\n

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Chief executive officer of Louis Brier Home and Hospital David Keselman with, left to right, Leonora Calingasan, Rebecca Fernandez, Flora Hayward, Nicole Encarnacion and Jennifer Belen. (photo by Dolores Luber)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In coordination with Angela Millar, executive leader, resident care services, at Louis Brier, the festivities honoured and expressed appreciation and affection for the nurses who support and care for the home\u2019s 215 residents. The continuum of care includes assisted living and multi-level care. Louis Brier provides 24-hour nursing services for residents who require personal assistance or full nursing support, and also has a separate unit for those residents living with moderate to severe dementia.<\/p>\n

Louis Brier\u2019s goal is \u201cexcellence in geriatric nursing care.\u201d As a teaching facility, Louis Brier regularly hosts students from accredited nursing schools, which helps them keep on top of current best practices.<\/p>\n

Nicole Encarnacion, clinical care coordinator and educator, was my guide to the festivities, to the nurses, staff and residents. The Nursing Week event on May 9 had the theme of \u201cThis is Nursing: Unexpected Places, Real Impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

The home\u2019s commitment to resident and family-centred care was evident throughout the facility. The entry hall was splendid with posters and banners created by residents and staff. The nurses were dressed in their formal white uniforms, with black, navy blue or green stripes on their caps. They were excited and pleased to be singled out, paid attention to and appreciated for their service. Millar gave out 30 certificates honouring their years of nursing, the longest being 39 years of service. Three nurses were given special consideration with a bouquet of flowers. In every corner, there were expressions of affection, cooperation and goodwill, hugs, smiles and group photos.<\/p>\n

Dolores Luber<\/strong>, a retired psychotherapist and psychology teacher, is editor of Jewish Seniors Alliance\u2019s <\/em>Senior Line magazine and website (jsalliance.org<\/a>). She blogs for yossilinks.com<\/a> and writes movie reviews for the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left to right, Nicole Encarnacion, Rebecca Fernandez and Jennifer Belen were among those f\u00eated at Louis Brier Home and Hospital on May 9 during Nursing Week. (photo by Dolores Luber) \u201cI think one\u2019s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.\u201d \u2013 Florence Nightingale The Dr. Irving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5617,7069,3714,2430],"class_list":["post-24315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-louis-brier","tag-nursing","tag-seniors","tag-weinberg-residence"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}