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Show Laurel D. Kay Hospital Director of Nurses i ' ' - f t ' ': if '.- . . ;, v . I . . I x. 7 i I Ik ' Laurel D. Kay, R.N., has been appointed assistant director of nursing at the American Fork Hospital. Mrs. Kay has held a department head position as Director of Central Processing at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo since 1978, and has been a nurse con-, sultant for IHC and other corporations in the specialty areas of operating room and central processing. Active in nursing for 18 years, she has worked in various fields of her profession, including in-cluding obstetrics, medical, surgical, operating room and emergency services. She has worked in five states during her career, but says she still enjoys Utah the best. She originally graduated from Holy Cross School of Nursing in Salt Lake City, then completed her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing as a Primary Nurse Practioner in 1977 at BYU. She is now pursuing her Masters in Nursing Management at BYU. Mrs. Kay feels her successes in nursing are partially due to the encouragement of her supportive family. Her parents, George W. and Edna Brown, live in Provo. Her husband, Charles D. Day, is manager of Wolfes Sporting Goods in Orem. She has four children, ages three, six, nine and 11, and she is very involved in their athletic pursuits and many projects. She loves outdoor sports, i LAUREL D. KAY handiwork, sewing, oil painting and familiy activites. Mrs. Kay is a member of the Association of Operating Room Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the Utah State i Nurses Association, the Utah Heart Association, the International Association Associat-ion of C.S. Managers, the American Association of Medical Instrumentation and is the Education Director of the Utah State Association of Center Service Managers. She has conducted and instructed many seminars for these groups in the last five years; and has helped organize the effort to ' control environmental exposure to ethylene oxide sterilant by presenting several seminars on the subject throughout Utah. She says she is looking forward to her involvement in-volvement with physicians, administrative ad-ministrative staff members and other personnel at the American Fork Hospital. |
