Yasmine Beausejour
Registered Nurse | Sephardic Home Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Brooklyn, NY
For six years as a Delegate, Yasmine Beausejour, RN, and Martine Duplan, another RN Delegate advocated for their 1199SEIU nurses at the Sephardic Home Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a 271-bed facility located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. Then in October last year, Martine left.
“Yasmine is the only one now who has been fighting for our interests there” says Martine. “But she is accomplishing a lot.” For that reason, Yasmine’s 30 RN colleagues at Sephardic nominated her for the best-nurse award in the nursing home setting.
At a gala awards dinner May 8 at the New York Hilton in Manhattan, before a crowd of hundreds nurses, managers, Union and League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes invitees, Yasmine won for her category. She was one of only six awardees from 67 nominees in several categories.
A mother of three children, Yasmine volunteers to stay with her patients when a shift lacks nurses. She also finds the time to continue her Bachelor of Science nursing program at Lehman’s College funded by the 1199 RN Training and Job Security Program.
“My goal is towards a Masters degree, with a minor in Education because there is a nurse educator shortage as well as a staff nurse shortage.” She is a member of the nursing home’s Quality Control Committee and the 1199 Registered Nurses Council.
