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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Speare Memorial Hospital
(603) 536-1120
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April 6 , 2007 |
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SMH Welcomes New Director of Surgical Services |
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 | PLYMOUTH, N.H. --- Speare Memorial Hospital is pleased to welcome Shari Laurion, RN, MS, CNOR, as its new director of surgical services. Laurion brings over 20 years of operating room experience, from both the clinical and management perspectives, to her new position at Speare.
“I’ve had an increasing amount of leadership experience in my career, and this was the next step,” states Laurion. “I was attracted to the position at Speare as the smaller, community hospital environment appealed to me, and I was impressed with what I saw. Speare is working on all the same quality initiatives as the larger hospitals, and I’m excited about some of my initial projects.”
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| Among the projects Laurion is focusing on are: reducing the turn over time between cases, assessing educational needs and opportunities for staff development to support continuous process improvement and quality initiatives, and reviewing the preoperative process in order to develop an action plan for enhancing communication with patients in advance of their operative procedures. Her 18 person staff sees an average of six patients a day, five days a week. Surgical Services ranges in scope from orthopedic and general surgery, to gynecology, endoscopies, podiatry, ophthalmology, and newly added urology procedures.
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| “We were very impressed with Shari’s broad scope of skills and knowledge, as well as her years of experience,” says SMH’s Chief Nursing Officer Beverley Rankin. “Additionally, Shari was able to articulate her leadership style, which fits well with the existing staff. She is a good listener, promotes teamwork and believes education and staff development are key priorities.”
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| Since 1985, Laurion’s career has focused on patient care relative to day surgery. “I like seeing patients through the continuum of care from pre-to-post op,” she says, noting that the trend toward outpatient surgery has grown over her career, as has the complexity of procedures due to advances in surgical techniques and technology.
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| Prior to coming to Speare Memorial Hospital, Laurion had spent her entire career at Concord Hospital, beginning in 1983 when she received her diploma from the Concord Hospital School of Nursing. She worked her way up the ranks from an operating room nurse, to nurse clinician/clinical nurse specialist in Day Surgery Center to a clinical leader of a pre-surgical admission unit and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (recovery room). |
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| It is that experience Rankin wants Laurion to build on at Speare, stating, “We want Shari to make sure we are doing the best we can for our patients, giving special attention to process efficiencies.”
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| Referencing the popular U.S. Army slogan, Laurion wants her staff to embrace “Be all you can be,” and leads by example. She holds a bachelor’s of nursing from Saint Joseph’s College, a Master of Science in Clinical Nursing Leadership, with a focus in management, from the University of New Hampshire and an Ambulatory Surgery Administrator Certificate from the Association of Operating Room Nurses.
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| Speare Memorial Hospital is a 24-hour, acute care, non-profit community hospital and health care provider serving Plymouth, and the communities of central New Hampshire, for more than a century.
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Michele Barney Hutchins
Director of Community Relations
Speare Memorial Hospital
(603) 238-6468
mhutchins@spearehospital.com
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