2016 NV Nurses Association Yearbook

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2016 Nevada Nurses Association www.nvnurses.org District 1 Faculty Senate at UNR, and has been appointed to chair the Campus Affairs Committee at UNR for the 2016-2017 academic year. Linda Bowmen, RN - Secretary Linda is NNA D1 Secretary. She will be joining the rural and frontier committee to help gain access to care for those individuals who can’t get access. Her current position and expertise as a manager for Nevada Medicaid will help tremendously. Christy Apple-Johnson, BSN, RN - Director at Large Christy is starting UNR this fall for her masters/APRN in adult acute gerontology. She is a trainer for the NNA Lateral Violence Prevention initiative for her facility Humboldt General Hospital, Winnemucca. She continues to advocate for this training and raise awareness among staff, students, and the public. She works with students through the Nevada Student Nurses’ Association as the state consultant, keeping them connected with NNA and schools in the northern part of the state. She works in conjunction with NNA for bi-annual convention. They have a solid board this year and she hopes to assist them in accomplishing great things. She works with rural nurses and students to join NNA. There is a major staffing initiative going on with nurses at NNRH in Elko. She also works in conjunction with Show Me Your Stethoscope (SMYS) Official non-profit as the state director to work towards raising safe staffing awareness. They hope to organize a rally in the state capitol within the next year. As a board, we continue to work with NNA Legislative committee on the safe staffing initiative and connect with the legislators. It is important to combine efforts of SMYS and ANA in working together to meet this important state initiative. Christy will be attending the rural and frontier nurse symposium on August 27th in Elko to see how NNA can become more involved. Kristina Efstratis, BSN,RN Kristina has been our social media committee chair and has met with the social media experts at ANA, working on streamlining all of our social media accounts as well as daily monitor the posts for relevant conversations and approve appropriate members. She has promoted NNA FaceBook page and adding new members. Our current following is twice what it had been at the beginning of the year, which is a success! NNA will utilize our budget to promote the page further, but more importantly the events that NNA hosts and has potential to profit from. Kristina completed her BSN this year at Chamberlain College of Nursing, and is over half completed her masters of nursing, FNP specialty track at Chamberlain. She is a Renown Daisy award recipient as of February 2016. She also was a nominee for critical care at Northern Nevada Nurse of Achievement this year. We are very proud to announce that Kristina was one of the Nevada Nurses Foundation 40 under 40 award winners. Other NNA D1 board members include Debi Ingraffia-Strong, MSN, RN; Hayley Coley, BSN, RN; Jeremy Martinez, ADN, RN; and Jami Sue Coleman, PhD, RN 20
2016 Nevada Nurses Association www.nvnurses.org Sandy Olguin, DNP, MSN, RN Nevada Nurses Foundation The Nevada Nurses Foundation (NNF) is comprised of a Board of Directors (Board) and Advisory Board. The Board members are all nurses and include: Denise Ogletree McGuinn, Vice President; Glenn Hagerstrom, Chief Financial Officer; Doreen Begley, Secretary; Elizabeth Fildes, Director, and Sandra Olguin, Chief Executive Officer. The Advisory Board, made up of nurses and community representatives, include: Yara Anaya Lugo, Mary Bemker, Judi Sandy Olguin Carrion, Jackie Chapman, Ian Curley, Kelly Farley, David Gamble, esq., Chris Griego, Michele Hughes, Linda Jacks, Peggy Lee, Lillian McMorris, Mark Miller, Lyle Pritchett, Betty Raxor, Leonel Sanchez, and Dave Tyrell. Thank you to the Board, Advisory Board, and Margaret Curley, NNF/NNA Liaison, for demonstrating continued commitment, resilience, determination, and loyalty to the Foundation and sharing valuable expertise, time, passion and innovative ideas! In 2016, the NNF introduced the first Future of Nursing in Nevada (FONN) dinner held at the Suncoast Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada on May 14th. The highly esteemed and internationally recognized nurse leader, Dr. Pam Cipriano, President of the American Nurses Association, virtually presented Debra Scott with the FONN Lifetime Achievement award. Ms. Scott, in her absence, graciously accepted and thanked everyone for her distinguished award in a pre-recorded video. Over 200 nurses were recognized at the dinner, including 181 Professional Progression nurses who advanced their practice by obtaining certification or an advanced degree and 40 Nevada nurse leaders under the age of 40. Due to an amazing team of nurses, nursing organizations, nursing educational institutions, health care facilities, legislators, nursing students, and other consumers of health, the 2016 FONN was a success! Please join me in recognizing the charitable “named” scholarship donors. Because of them, the NNF will be awarding an additional 20 scholarships to advance the profession of nursing and increase access to quality health care for Nevada citizens. • Arthur L. Davis Scholarship • Betty Razor • Catherine “Kat” Cylke • (2) Choe and Praus, APRN • Christine Watson Scholarship by Dr. Susan and Paul Michael • Debra Scott • Flying ICU by Donna Miller 21
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