Frights and Delights ... It‘s Halloween (Sarah McLelland)

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Sarah McLelland.

Sarah McLelland has been a nurse for 22 years. She started on the trauma/surgery floor at Charity Hospital in New Orleans and then moved to the ED to begin her journey in Emergency Nursing. After 4 years at Charity, she decided to travel, and did so for 4 years at various hospitals throughout the country including Level One Trauma Centers in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Diego to name a few.

She returned to New Orleans in 2008 and has served in many leadership roles at her current facility where she is now working as a Clinical Educator for the Emergency Department. Needless to say, she has certainly dealt with her share of unique and interesting patient encounters over the years. She currently serves as Chair of the LENA Education committee, an item writer for the CEN practice exam, and hosts online certification jeopardy games to encourage engagement and certification within her state.

Sarah has been recognized as Nurse Educator of the Year by the Louisiana ENA in 2016, Mentor of the Year by her home facility, and a recipient of the Daisy Award. She holds a Masters Degree and two Bachelor Degrees, with one being her BSN, and has achieved certifications for CEN, TCRN, CPEN, and SANE-A.

We are going to follow a little different format in this Halloween episode special. Listen as Michael Dexter and Mark Eggers talk with Sarah about Charity Hospital in New Orleans as she shares her own stories and stories of other nurses.

Of course, we will still have the rapid-fire questions, but Halloween is the main flavor of this podcast night.

Sarah can be found on Facebook and Instagram