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<strong>October</strong>, November, December <strong>2020</strong> Pelican News • Page 5<br />
District News<br />
District IV<br />
Elsie Meaux, RN, BSN, MHA<br />
District IV President<br />
Even though we have not been able to have any<br />
face to face meetings, District IV has remained<br />
active.<br />
On July 13, we changed our bi-monthly<br />
restaurant meeting to a ZOOM event and had a<br />
wonderful presentation complete with slides by<br />
Camille Claibourne, RN, PhD. Her presentation<br />
included relevant stories and initiated interesting<br />
conversation among the attendees. The topic was<br />
“Creativity and Innovation in Changing Times”<br />
and was very timely as we related many of the<br />
topic examples to our current challenges with the<br />
Covid-19 crisis. Our thanks to Shelia Domingue, our<br />
Vice President who helped re-arrange our meeting<br />
and still have attendees earn contact hour for<br />
participation via Zoom.<br />
Our board has remained engaged as we have<br />
continued to distribute our donated hair care<br />
products.<br />
These were very well received by several of our<br />
hospitals, home health agencies and all nurses at<br />
the seven parish Public Health offices in our district.<br />
Many of our members have continued to be active<br />
not only in taking care of their patients on a daily<br />
basis, but also volunteering to help with COVID-19<br />
testing at sites around our seven-parish area and<br />
all incoming students at University of <strong>Louisiana</strong><br />
Lafayette (ULL).<br />
We will be participating as a sponsor of the<br />
Regional Healthy Communities LSNA/RAC Health<br />
Care Summit on Sept. 10th. With the focus on<br />
Health Equity in Region 4, we are in partnership<br />
with St. Landry Parish/Opelousas General Health<br />
System for this summit. It will be presented as a<br />
virtual event with speakers from Robert Woods<br />
Johnson and follow-up from our previous summits.<br />
We also plan to participate in the State Culture of<br />
Health Summit <strong>October</strong>, 27, <strong>2020</strong>. We are very<br />
proud of our District leading the state on initiatives<br />
on Culture of Health and we continue to be actively<br />
involved with a Nurse Camp promoting our<br />
professions in school system’s.<br />
LSNA District IV Treasurer Nick Niland, Nurse Manager Lindsey<br />
Lagrange and LGMC Director of Nurses and District IV member<br />
Renee Delahoussaye show the 3 #Guy Tang hair care products<br />
included in gift bags distributed<br />
Dr. Allie (L) office has been instrumental in conducting multiple free CoVid<br />
testing events. Pictured with him on right is LSNA District IV Vice President,<br />
Shelia Pritchett, giving a Spa gift bag to Dr. Allie and staff.<br />
St. Martin Hospital nurses receive their hair care gift bags<br />
Tang hair care products prepared for distribution to District IV nurses<br />
Audubon Home Health nurses in Vermillion parish receive their gift bags.
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