Marilyn Slattengren: Director of LSC?s Nursing Assistant Program?and grandmother extraordinaire! Can you see the family resemblance?
Marilyn Slattengren was appointed director of Lake Superior College?s Nursing Assistant program shortly after LSC?s 2012 spring semester wrapped up.
No stranger to the program, she?s been teaching nursing assistant courses as an adjunct instructor at Lake Superior College in 2003. In fact, Marilyn ? who was born and raised in the Duluth area ? has been teaching, working and creating passion for the nursing field for more than 40 years.
We asked her a couple of questions about her career, her life and her loves. In return, she gave us a healthy dose of answers. Read on!
Tell us about your education/work background. Where did you receive your training?and what was your favorite thing about it?
I?ve been in the medical field for 42 years. I started as a nursing assistant while attending the former Duluth Area Vocational Institute (Now Lake Superior College) and earned my licensed practical nursing (LPN) certificate. From there, I earned an AA in Nursing at Hibbing Community College. After that, I continued on and earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bemidji State University. I also earned my teaching license from BSU.
Marilyn and her husband Tom have been married for more than 40 years.
As far as work history, it?s?extensive. I?ve worked as a staff nurse at St. Mary?s (now Essentia Health System). Supervisor and assistant director of nursing at Viewcrest Health Center. Owner/operator of Tender Loving Homecare. Consultant for area home care agencies/group homes. I worked in the Proctor district as a school nurse and in special education for 18 years working with the medically fragile children. While at Proctor, I was approached to start a nursing assistant program as well as teach medical terminology in the high school. I worked diligently to make that program a success, which it is! I recently resigned from my position as health occupations instructor at Esko High School after nearly 10 years in order to accept my current position as director of the Nursing Assistant program here at LSC. I?m already loving it.
Why did you pursue nursing and nursing instruction as a career path?
I first realized that I wanted to enter the medical profession when I was in 3rd grade. I had an uncle who lived on a farm, and he was missing his thumb ? which I later learned was from a ?wood chopping episode.? But as a kid, I was determined to figure out how someone could be missing a thumb ? how it happened, what led up to it and how they took care of his hand. In other words, I had the curiosity of a nurse. That curiosity never changed! I knew this was my destined choice in careers!
Basically, my passion is the nursing profession.?Other than my husband, children and grandchildren, it?s ?the love of my life.? And I hope that passion continues to rub off on students so that THEY can feel the same way about nursing!
What?s your FAVORITE activity outside of work? (For example: Do you like writing? Knitting? Hockey? Fishing?)
I enjoy the summer sun! Being on the lake, boating things like that. I also really enjoy watching the grandchildren ski (which was MY my passion back ?in the day!?), going camping, fun things like that. Being with my children and granchildren are my priorities, but I also enjoy cross-country skiing, scrapbooking. Now that I have a ?set schedule? I can get back to more of my outside-of-work interests!
Where do you call your ?home town?? What?s your favorite part of the Duluth area and why?
I grew up on Pike Lake, and it?ll always be ?my special lake.? But my favorite local getaway would be Lake Superior and Canal Park ? so many wonderful restaurants (which I love to visit) and the boardwalk is so special to this area! Gooseberry Falls is another place I love to get away, along with Bayfield, WI. I just love the drive; stopping and getting smoked fish with cheese and crackers, sitting on the rocks and enjoying our awesome ?up north? weather.
Clean air and natural beauty?can?t beat it.
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