Wednesday, August 25th 2010

Hello everyone! It’s Trip Day and guess where we are going?? I will give you a clue….”ice cream, ice cream, we all scream for ice cream!” Remember that jingle? Well, today we are heading to Dairy Queen for an afternoon snack! yum!

I want to highlight our nurses at Just Friends today! We are so blessed to have such a great team of nurses. We have our main nurse, Jackie Sterling, and then we have many part-time nurses, Judy Goddard, Pan Vreeland, Donna Lawlor, Rebekah Chastain, Roberta Kirchoff, Betty Hilycord, to fill the 10 hour day. The role of the nurse is to do daily charting, medication support, monthly vitals, & everything else throughout the day that would need medical attention. This team of nurses have another wonderful quality that cannot be learned - compassion! They each truly have a heart for our program and the participants! As Pam Vreeland says, “The interaction with our participants is what I like most about working at Just Friends.”

We also are blessed to have a nurse consultant, Betty Harrison, RN, that oversees all the nursing duties plus trains & educates all the staff. As Betty states, “Each participant has a specific care plan that is reviewed and revised as needed. We have a wellness approach to care, meaning that we try to do things for the participants’ mental wellness, cognitive skills, & physical exercise.”

Having this great nursing team is not only a vital part of Just Friends, it is also a source of comfort and security.

Hug a nurse today!
Chris Forbes, Marketing Coordinator

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