2016 NV Nurses Association Yearbook

2016 Nevada Nurses Association www.nvnurses.org
Healthy Nevada Nurses
Elizabeth Fildes, EdD, RN*, CNE, CARN-AP, APHN-BC
On October 5, 2012, the NV Nurses Association accepted the
challenge of helping Nevada nurses become healthier by launching
the Holistically Healthy Nevada Nurses (H2N2) Initiative. H2N2’s goal
is to motivate Nevada nurses to prioritize their own physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual health through activities that promote these
including healthy work environments and communities.
Our current activities include:
1. A permanent column, in the RNformation which describes
recommended practices, featuring success stories of nurses
Elizabeth Fildes
quitting smoking, losing weight, etc.
2. Quarterly health initiatives, the most successful activity, is our annual North/South
10,000 Steps competition during the month of February. Nurses, their families, and
friends compete for the most number of steps. Our new north and south chairs, Annie
Carlos and Mariana Peterson, are planning hikes, Zumba events, walks to encourage
physical fitness for nurses, community gardens, and many other activities.
3. H2N2 Text Buddies where nurses in pairs agree to support each other’s health goals.
4. Partnerships with organizations that promote health including health districts, health
clubs, spas, health food stores, yoga studios and dance studios.
5. We have solid relationships with the Nevada Student Nurses Association and
successful relationships with new graduates.
6. Our north and south Chairs intend to enhance the social media presence at the
healthy nurses via Facebook and Twitter. Their plans include launching Motivation
Mondays; recipe exchanges, “How did it work?” interactions.
7. H2N2 is a partner in the prevention of lateral violence in nursing training. We are
exploring adding/integrating physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and
wellbeing as a strategy to prevent violence. We will add this to the lateral violence
training.
8. We are in the process of identifying workplace champions to disseminate H2N2
activities in schools, hospitals and other places where nurses work.
The H2N2 committee thank you for the opportunity to share what we are doing in NV to
help make nurses and other Nevada citizens healthy!
During the 2016 American Nurses Association’s Membership Assembly in Washington DC,
I presented the work that we are doing in Nevada. Awesome News! We have been asked
to be a beta tester for the American Nurses Association Healthy Nurses, Healthy Nation’s
Grand Challenge! We will keep you posted!
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