St. Francis Heart Center is setting for nurses’ critical care competition

INDIANAPOLIS – The St. Francis Heart Center is preparing to host the CIC-AACN Critical Care Bowl, an annual event where central Indiana hospital teams demonstrate their nursing expertise.

The contest gets under way at 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 13 at the Heart Center, located at 8111 S. Emerson Ave. on the St. Francis Hospital-Indianapolis campus.

St. Francis is fielding two teams of registered nurses, and their members are: Sherri Whaley, Frank Plettner, Alicia Garver, Kim Hankenhoff, Tiffany Lenior, Laurel Hubbard, Natalie Zink, Lindsay Tapp, Joe Fenton, Mary Beth Sears and Laura Williams

“This is a Jeopardy-type of competition with categories ranging from basic life support to mass casualties scenarios, and everything in between,” said Trish Wray, R.N., critical care unit manager at the Heart Center.

To date, seven other teams will represent Methodist Hospital, Major Hospital, St. Vincent Health, Wishard Hospital and Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Teams from St. Francis have won top honors at the Critical Care Bowl three of the last four years.

The contest, now in its 20^th year, is sponsored by the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.