GIVING TOWARDS HEALTH
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Social Cause: Nursing
Excellence
Giving towards health need not solely
mean supporting a particular health
issue. In the case of Fayez Spa located in
Ontario, Canada, its philanthropy work
is foc used on nursing excellence. In May
this year, the spa launched its Nursing
Excellence Award wherein recipients recognized for their outstanding medical
care received framed certificates of
Nursing Excellence and a $2,500 Fayez
Spa gift card.
The inspiration to launch a Nursing
Excellence Award came after Fayez Spa
owner, Fayez Tamba, received exceptional care from one particular nurse
while recovering from a surgery at
London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria
Hospital in Canada.
Anxious leading to the surgery,
Tamba says the post-surgical care he
received exceeded his expectations, and
the nurse assigned to his recovery epitomized kindness, gentleness, and
attentiveness. “In short, her care was
exemplary, and on the way home, I
became determined to demonstrate my
"Sometimes, one must
do the right thing for his
community, and because
of the exemplary care of
my nurse, creating an
award [that can be used
as a forum to enourage
more poeple to show
their appreciation for
the entire nursing
profession] was simply
a no-brainer."
appreciation by giving her a spa day
[which, I was told, was not possible
because nurses are not allowed to
receive gifts from patients],” he says,
adding that his efforts to look for ways
to reward exceptional nurses eventually
led to a partnership with the Nursing
Week Gala conveners to honor rarely
recognized and generally under-valued
nurses through the Nursing Excellence
Award.
To help promote this initiative, Fayez
Spa added a nominations page on their
spa Web site, encouraged nominations
through Fayez Spa E-news, created an
online Nursing Excellence Award icon
and prominently featured it on the spa’s
home page as well as posted the nominations criteria on their Web site. “We
also did radio and newspaper advertising
to invite deserving nominations as well
as issued a news release that resulted in
radio and TV interviews and newspaper
editorials. Since the gala, ongoing
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