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MARCH <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />
WALK FOR HEALTH, CHARITY<br />
<strong>The</strong> top three Overall Mileage winners for girls in Rancho Encinitas Academy’s virtual running<br />
and walking club, from left, include third-place winner Emily Young, first-place winner<br />
Katie Solowiej and second-spot winner <strong>The</strong>resa Hooker. Participants use a technology tool<br />
from Racetracker.ca, tracking their miles for a month. As a culminating event to February’s<br />
competition, families participated in Chelsea’s Run 5K run/walk fundraiser benefiting the<br />
Chelsea’s Light Foundation Sunflower Scholarship Fund. Courtesy photo<br />
CSUSM offers palliative care course<br />
SAN MARCOS — <strong>The</strong><br />
CSU Institute for Palliative<br />
Care is now offering End of<br />
Life Nursing Consortium for<br />
Veterans.<br />
<strong>The</strong> specialized expertise<br />
gained at this course will<br />
not only help to improve the<br />
quality of palliative care for<br />
veterans, it will also ensur e<br />
that all nurses attending the<br />
course will lea ve with vital<br />
information and skills to<br />
improve end of life car e for<br />
all their patients, both veterans<br />
and non-veterans.<br />
This two-day program<br />
will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4:30<br />
p.m. April 1 and April 2, in<br />
San Diego.<br />
To learn more about the<br />
CSU Institute for Palliative<br />
Care, contact Helen McNeal<br />
at hmcneal@csusm.edu or<br />
visit csupalliativecare.org.<br />
With the majority of<br />
veterans receiving medical<br />
care in non-V A establishments,<br />
this course will pr epare<br />
nurses in the ar eas of<br />
communication, pain management,<br />
symptom management,<br />
loss, grief and<br />
bereavement, and final<br />
hours while under standing<br />
the distinct culture of veterans.<br />
This two-day conference<br />
brings in e xperts from<br />
all different areas of End of<br />
Life education to pr ovide<br />
participants with a thorough<br />
understanding of the<br />
topic areas and a vailable<br />
resources.<br />
<strong>The</strong> CSU Institute f or<br />
Palliative Care is America’s<br />
first statewide educational<br />
and workforce development<br />
initiative dedicated to palliative<br />
care.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Institute offers professional<br />
development and<br />
continuing education cours-<br />
es designed to enhance the<br />
skills of current and future<br />
health care professionals, as<br />
well as pr ograms to build<br />
palliative care awareness in<br />
the community.<br />
Courses offered initially<br />
at the Cal State San<br />
Marcos campus will be part<br />
of a model f or palliative<br />
care workforce development<br />
and community awareness<br />
that will be available to<br />
other interested campuses<br />
in California and beyond.<br />
THE COAST NEWS<br />
FENNELL<br />
CONTINUED FROM A5<br />
ing almost $525,000.<br />
Most of the cash-outs<br />
were made due to financial<br />
hardships, Fennell said.<br />
“That money belongs to the<br />
employees … If the y left<br />
tomorrow we would have to<br />
cash them out.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> state suggested the<br />
employees pay the mone y<br />
back but that ne ver happened<br />
and the issue is still<br />
unresolved.<br />
As the gener al manager,<br />
Fennell is the one who<br />
recognizes 20-year employees.<br />
This time, board<br />
President Adam Day<br />
bestowed the honor.<br />
A19<br />
As part of the r ecognition,<br />
Day read a poem, written<br />
by staff member s, that<br />
described Fennell’s first<br />
“company car,” a vehicle no<br />
one would want for free, the<br />
time he dressed up as Elvis<br />
Presley and a rumor<br />
Fennell may be getting a<br />
fairgrounds tattoo.
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