Lee Nursing Students Send Cards to Community
By Eliza Souers
Lee University School of Nursing students recently created and delivered handmade cards for residents and staff at Legacy Village, Tennova Healthcare, and CHI Memorial Hospital.
According to Kathleen Rose, assistant professor of nursing at Lee, the students made valentine’s and encouragement cards to celebrate the holiday and show support and care and delivered them to residents and healthcare workers at Legacy Village in Cleveland, an assisted living facility.
“We are grateful for the partnership with Lee and the various schools we work with within the university as we both jointly fulfill and support our individual missions of excellence,” said Bryan Cook, president of Legacy.
Cards were also sent to COVID-19 ICU nurses, among others, at Tennova Healthcare Center in Cleveland and Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. They were then posted around the nursing units for all to enjoy.
“As a nursing unit, we have had an outpouring of uplifting gestures from our community, from people we don’t even know, from people just looking to give us a little encouragement,” said Nicholas Laney, a nurse at Memorial. “We are grateful for the time taken by these students and the encouragement that was brought to us.”
Abby Stone, a Lee alumna and nurse at Memorial, said “Sometimes it’s a small ‘thank you’ that makes a world of difference. Nurses supporting nurses is a powerful thing.”
Hospitals around the country have been under great stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the nursing students at Lee wanted to show their care and support by sending these special cards and notes of encouragement, according to Rose.
“It is how we as individuals in healthcare respond to hardship that defines us, and the care we continue to offer to everyone in these times, especially those on the frontlines,” said Sarah Londres, a Lee senior nursing student, who helped make the cards. “My passion comes from the genuine gratitude I have for each person who fights for individual lives, the most beautiful part of our world.”
For more information about Lee’s School of Nursing, visit https://www.leeuniversity.edu/academics/nursing/.
PHOTOS: (1) Pictured here making the cards are senior nursing students (left to right) Emily Wimpelberg, Marah Mussro, Shekinah Miranda, and Natalie Moyer. (2) A Legacy Village resident poses with one of the cards.
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