Erin Cook

Orderly Maria Cecilia Gecain is vaccinated by Nurse Hermes Cornejo at Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in January

Vaccine victory: How staff vaccination rates reached new heights

There’s good news on the vaccination front in our CIUSSS: Three-quarters of staff in long-term care homes have now received the COVID-19 vaccine, one…

In a brief ceremony at the JGH, Annick Leboeuf (rear, third from left), a Council Member of the Montreal-Laval Branch of the Order of Nurses of Quebec, presented the Close to the Heart Award for Innovation in Nursing to the Outpatient Nursing Oncology team. Holding the award is Mandy Collins (rear, centre), a Nurse Clinician in Outpatient Oncology. Among those joining them were Lucie Tremblay (front, second from left), Director of Nursing; Serge Cloutier (rear, left), Associate Director of Nursing; Erin Cook (front, right), Co-Director of Operations at the Segal Cancer Centre; Kimberly Gartshore (front, second from right), Head Nurse of Outpatient Oncology; and Elisabeth Laughrea (front, left), Chair of the Youth Committee of the Montreal-Laval Branch of the Order of Nurses of Quebec.

CIUSSS News

JGH nursing initiative wins award for helping cancer patients manage their symptoms

A team of nurses at the JGH has won an award for an initiative that helps cancer outpatients manage their symptoms more effectively and…

Back row: André Poitras, Michael Norrish, Joanne Charbonneau, Karine Lepage, Margaret Hoodspith and Yves-Alex Dejean. Front row: Danny Broccoli, Samantha Prahalis, Georgia Papadopoulos. Not in the photo: Michael Angeles, Arnel Balazuela, Jonathan Harroche, Julia Mazzonna, Joël Pierre and Erin Cook.

Innovation

Wheeling to success: Nursing Team speeds up return of stretchers to Emergency Department

Lean Six Sigma project cuts average return time for stretchers to 22 minutes What could be more irritating for a health professional than looking…