Lauri Sansing has recently been named nursing director for critical care, the progressive care unit (PCU) and the emergency department at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. She has served as director of staff education since May 2009. In her new role, she will oversee the overall operations of the three patient care units of the hospital.
Originally from Steens, Miss., she is a graduate of New Hope High School and received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mississippi University for Women in 1998. She began her nursing career at Baptist Golden Triangle in 1998 as a nurse in the Critical Care Unit.
She transferred to the nursing staff development department in 2003 and was promoted to director of the department in May 2009.
She is a 2011 graduate of the Baptist Nursing Leadership Institute, an 18-month corporate -based program that provides leadership development and succession planning for select nurse managers or directors throughout the Baptist Memorial Health Care system.
Sansing has also served as an American Heart Association Training Center Coordinator and was named to a two-year term as a Mississippi Regional Faculty member in 2011. She is a certified instructor for Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
“Lauri is a proven leader. Her many accomplishments as the director of education made her the obvious choice to lead the emergency department, critical care and progressive care to the next level. I am very excited to have Lauri's expertise and talent leading these departments,” said Mary Ellen Sumrall, Baptist Golden Triangle’s chief nursing officer.
Sansing and her husband Ashley have two children and are members of Piney Grove Methodist Church in Steens, Miss. where they lead the youth group. She currently serves as vice president of Tentholders for Tabernacle Campground. In her free time she enjoys reading, fishing and spending time with her family.
