All around the world, nurses are observing National Nurses Week, and today at the KHMH, the medical staff were helping them to celebrate with a cook-out in the hospital parking lot.
It's a means by which the staff can celebrate the many ethnicities and nationalities of the staff. The basic idea is that those who participated were expected to prepare an ethnic dish connected to their culture or country, and a group of judges would select a winner from the participants.
Our news team spoke with the organizers today about it, and here's what they had to say:
Lucely Gillett - Employee, KHMH
"This is the second year that we are doing - it's a cook-out for the Nurses Week - second year that we're doing this. It's basically where we're trying to get all the cultures within Karl Heusner, for everybody to get exposed to the cultures we have here. And, what they're doing is we have decided to present their 1 cultural dish from each country."
Faye Lofter - Nursing Shift Supervisor, KHMH
"We have Chinese, Phillipinos, Creole, of course, Garifuna, Nicaraguans, Cubans, Jamaicans - so it's diverse. So, all these different groups are out here today doing cooking for us."
Daniel Ortiz
"Is it a success?"
Faye Lofter
"I must say yes, it is a success because compared to last year, there were like 6 groups, and this year, we have additional groups. And so, I must say that yes, it is a success. The sfaff you see out here this morning are participating, and they were willingly. We never had to say, that we're forcing anybody. Everybody who is out here cooking, it's their free will."
"I had the opportunity of going to the Nigerian boot. That's one of my favorites. They have a lot of spices. It was really good the jell of rice that they did. And from the Guyanese, they have a very delicious star fruit juice, never nice."
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