Nurse Educator, Home and Community Care
CHEO, Canada
Lorraine VanMunsteren is the Nurse Educator with CHEO’s Home and Community Care Department, the Kids Come First Care Clinic, the Rapid Response Nursing Team and the Kids Come First Health Team’s Centre of Excellence (CoE). Lorraine graduated from Western University’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in 2008, began her nursing career on CHEO's Float Team, and quickly transitioned to the Oncology, Hematology, Nephrology Unit where she worked for over 10 years. A new opportunity in 2019 led to a Nurse Educator role, acting as the Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) Lead for CHEO. As BPSO Lead, Lorraine was responsible for the implementation of multiple nursing best practice guidelines (BPGs) to build on CHEO’s strong record of nursing excellence and ultimately improve patient care and experiences at the hospital.
Now, in her role as Nurse Educator with CHEO’s Home and Community Care Department, Lorraine is sharing her knowledge and experience with community care providers through the Kids Come First Health Team’s Centre of Excellence, designed to improve patient care and experiences beyond the walls of CHEO. Driving across Eastern Ontario to lead training sessions, in a vehicle filled with child-sized anatomical models, Lorraine is already seeing the Centre’s impact.
When not innovating and thinking up new ways to touch the lives of more children, through sharing CHEO’s pediatric best practices with the broader community, Lorraine can be found cheering on her kids in Hockey areas in Ottawa and Quebec, or on outdoor adventures, like camping and horseback riding with her family, while juggling a busy life on their farm.