HCC 24-hour nurse is guest speaker

SUNSHINE CLUB

Monica Cousins, one of Optum’s 24-hour nurses in LW, will speak at the Sunshine Club on Friday, Sept. 22, in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, at 10 a.m.

Cousins is a senior registered nurse lead at Optum in Leisure World. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Cal State Long Beach 30 years ago.

She has worked at the Health Care Center for 16 years, most of those as the night shift oncall RN for the Leisure World community. Her previous work experience includes working at St. Francis Medical Center and Lakewood Regional Medical Center, focusing on heart patients. She gets great job satisfaction when she sees the joy in her patient’s faces when they feel like she has helped them.

Her presentation will be on behalf of the 24-hour nursing team at the Optum Health Care Center. Her goal is to give residents a better understanding of the role and services the 24-hour nurse provides for the community.

Cousins has three grown boys that are all Eagle Scouts. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and country line dancing, and playing games such as Sudoku, solitaire, Rummikub and Sequence.

All residents are welcome to join this meeting. The Sunshine Club requires no membership fees, but donations are welcome. Refreshments will be served at the meeting.

People are asked to arrive promptly to the meeting. Those who are late for the meeting are asked to quietly use the back door so as not to disturb the presentation.

For more information, contact Anna Derby at 562-301-5339.