Cardiac Staff Matters is a regular publication of
updates, information, points to ponder, and things that are significant to the
Program. The aim is to pass these points on during
huddles, in conversations, and by posting in clinical areas to ensure widest
dissemination.
1.
Interim Vice President for the Cardiac
Sciences Program
As
you know, Francis LaBossiere is retiring on August 29th. Until a permanent VP is recruited, Arlene
Wilgosh will assume the position.
2.
Surgical Head for the Heart Failure Program
Doctor
Rohit Singal has been the interim surgical head for Heart Failure within the
Program. Effective immediately, he has
been appointed Surgical Head of the Heart Failure Program. Please join the CSP leadership team in
congratulating him on this accomplishment.
3.
New CRN in ICCS
Belinda
Landry has accepted the position of CRN on ICCS starting in September. Belinda graduated from the University of Manitoba
in 2007 with a Bachelor of Nursing and immediately started her nursing career
with the Cardiac Sciences Program on CSIU. She then took on the WCCNEP ICU
course and completed this in 2010 and has been working as a bedside nurse in
ICCS since then. She is currently the
co-chair of SBH Nursing Practice Council
4.
New to the Program
Please extend a warm
welcome to two General Duty Cardiology Technicians to the Non-Invasive Cardiac
Diagnostics department. Brenda Cahigas
will be taking a full-time, D/N position and Amy Harris will be in a part-time
(0.7FTE) D/N.
5.
New CEI on ICCS
Ashleigh
Shearer is the new Continuing Education Instructor for ICCS. Ashleigh comes to the position from being the
CRN on ICCS.
6.
Professional Development Opportunity
The
2nd Cardiovascular Forum for Promoting Centers of Excellence and
Young Investors will be taking place at the RBC Convention Centre (375 York Ave, Winnipeg),
September 4-6 2014. This forum features
a broad selection of thematic symposia, in addition to four awards sessions
dedicated to trainees and young faculty. Twenty-eight symposia have been
assembled to span the gamut of modern cardiovascular basic and clinical
research, including regenerative and translational medicine, with over 100
speakers from around the world sharing their latest findings. For more details, please visit www.cvforum.org
7.
Save the Date
The
inaugural Cardiac Sciences Career Symposium is taking place on September 10,
2014. “Care Comes from the Heart” will take
place on the Mezzanine in Asper and consist of booths and posters from all
areas across the Program. Staff will be
available to provide information about your career in the Cardiac Sciences
Program as well as host tours of our departments and areas.
If
you know people from outside the hospital who are interested in nursing,
cardiac diagnostics, perfusion, clinical assists, and support roles, please
encourage them come out and explore a career in the Program.
If you have any points
that you want to pass to the rest of the Program and/or have feedback, please
contact Paul Joudrey pjoudrey@sbgh.mb.ca
or 204.237.2743
