{"id":17980,"date":"2022-05-18T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2022-05-17T20:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:13:01","slug":"st-lukes-wood-river-foundation-honors-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/st-lukes-wood-river-foundation-honors-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation Honors Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation\u2019s Board of Directors and the Harvey Gray Family recently awarded the 2022 Carl A. Gray Memorial Award for nursing excellence. Each year the entire hospital staff nominates a nurse who exemplifies excellence in their nursing practice. The nursing staff then votes on the colleague, whom they believe is most deserving of recognition. This year, Lauren Hoover, BSN, R.N., CEN, TCRN, was overwhelmingly the staff\u2019s choice to receive the excellence award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauren is a Certified Emergency Nurse, a Trauma Certified Registered Nurse and is the co-leader of St. Luke\u2019s Nursing Shared Governance. Lauren began her healthcare career as a high school student working after school and on the weekends as a cashier in the St. Luke\u2019s Wood River cafeteria. She went on to work in several other roles, including patient admissions. When Lauren went away to college, she continued to work at the hospital over Christmas and summer breaks. She graduated college and a few years later she decided to become a nurse. A healthcare scholarship through the St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation helped her return to nursing school at the College of Southern Idaho. Lauren first worked at St. Luke\u2019s in Meridian and then made it home to St. Luke\u2019s Wood River (SLWR).<\/span><\/p>\n

As a nurse in the Emergency Department, Lauren is highly skilled in critical patient care. She was described as a \u201ctrue ER nurse to the core, always ready for the unexpected.\u201d She is compassionate, thoughtful, and mindful of her interactions with patients and colleagues. She always prioritizes the latest educational opportunities and encourages others to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her colleagues describe her as one who is always there to answer questions and step in when needed, \u201ca nurse you want on your team.\u201d Lauren makes the Emergency Department a welcoming place and we all know that NO ONE wants to need to be there. She advocates for her patients and inspires her colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

The celebration took place in person for the first time since 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is wonderful to honor the work that our nurses do every day. These have been extraordinary times and our nurses all went above and beyond to help their colleagues and our community,\u201d said Megan Tanous, St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation Chief Development Officer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Harvey Gray Family established the annual award in the Foundation to honor Carl A. Gray, who was an avid Sun Valley Ski Club member.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards of distinction were also given in specific areas of the St. Luke\u2019s core values. The honorees included Annie Leady, BSN, R.N., CPAN \u2013 Surgical Services, who was recognized for Integrity; Elizabeth Solis, R.N., ASN \u2013 SLWR Family Medicine, for Compassion; Jami Adrian, BSN, R.N., RNC \u2013 Mother\/Baby Unit, for Accountability; and Jason Lyman, BSN, R.N. \u2013 Surgical Services, for Respect.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation\u2019s Board of Directors and the Harvey Gray Family recently awarded the 2022 Carl A. Gray Memorial Award for nursing excellence. Each year the entire hospital staff nominates a nurse who exemplifies excellence in their nursing practice. The nursing staff then votes on the colleague, whom they believe is most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,79,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emergency-services","8":"category-health-news","9":"category-in-brief","10":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17983,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions\/17983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}