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Page 2 • Nevada RNformation August, September, October 2019 NNA Mission Statement Launching the new NNA Career Center Where Nevada Nurses and Nevada Employers Connect! NNA wants to help you find the right nurse for your opening. Reasonable rates and proceeds benefit nursing through NNA. Visit https://NVNursesJobs.org For more information, contact Lyle at Info@NVNursesJobs.org Phone: 775-746-0261 Text: 775-224-1270 The Nevada Nurses Association promotes professional nursing practice through continuing education, community service, nursing leadership, and legislative activities to advocate for improved health and high quality health care for citizens of Nevada. NNA State Board of Directors Mary D. Bondmass, PhD, RN, CNE Mary.bondmass@unlv.edu ..............President Nicki Aaker, MSN, MPH, RN, CNOR, PHCNS-BC naaker@aol.com .......Vice President Rochelle Walsh, DNP, RN, PCCN rochelleh@unr.edu ......................Secretary Glenn Hagerstrom, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE ghagersrom@unr.edu .........Treasurer Peggy Lee, BSN, RN Lee.peggy4423@gmail.com ..................Director at Large Amie Ruckman, MSN, RN amieruckman@gmail.com ...............Director at Large Christa Secord, MSN, FNP-BC cjsecord@gmail.com ................Director at Large Darlene Bujold, BSN, RN darlene.cbrn@gmail.com ...............President, District 1 Ruth Politi, PhD, RN healthccr@icloud.com ....................President, District 3 Donna Miller, RN Donna.Miller@airmed.com ......................Legislative Chair CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for poster presentation at the 2019 NNA Convention: Inclusivity in Nursing in collaboration with the Nevada Nurses Foundation and Nevada Nurses Student Association Editorial Board Managing Editor, Linda Bowman, RN, lbowman@nvnurses.org Mary D. Bondmass, PhD, RN, CNE Eliza J. Fountain, RN, BSN Wallace J. Henkelman, Ed.D, MSN, RN Tracey Long PhD, RN, MS, CDE, CNE, CCRN Mary Baker Mackenzie, MSN, RN John Malek, PhD, MSN, FNP-C Print Editor, Kathy Ryan, MSN, RN-BC Lisa Pacheco, MSN, RN Betty Razor, RN, BSN, CWOCN Denise Rowe, MSN, RN, FNP-C Val Wedler, MSN, RN Bernadette Longo, PhD, RN, FAAN Visit the NNA website at www.nvnurses.org Abstracts must be received by July 31, 2019 Are you interested in submitting an article for publication in RNFormation? Please send it in a Word document to us at lbowman@nvnurses.org. Our Editorial Board will review the article and notify you whether it has been accepted for publication. If you wish to contact the author of an article published in RNFormation, please email us and we will be happy to forward your comments. www.nvnurses.org Published by: Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc.
August, September, October 2019 Nevada RNformation • Page 3 Editorial Board Members Spotlight Denise Rowe DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP, BC Dr. Rowe is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with background in the private and public health sectors. She has worked in rural health medicine in Tennessee and in non-profit community health center in Las Vegas, Nevada. She provides primary care and women’s health services at the Veterans Health Administration in Las Vegas. Dr. Rowe’s past leadership roles included serving on the Medical Executive board, and Nurse Executive council and APRN Council Chairperson at VHA, secretary of Southern Nevada Black Nurses Association, and member of the Nevada Nurses Association nomination committee. Dr. Rowe is currently serving as secretary of the Nevada Advanced Practice Nurses Association (NAPNA). Tracey Long RN, PhD, MSN, MS, APRN, CDE, CNE, COI, CHUC, CCRN As a registered nurse for 30 years, Dr. Tracey Long has worked in critical care, emergency medicine, IMC and primary care. She developed health education and diabetes programs for hospitals in Las Vegas, Nevada where she resides. She earned her Bachelor in Nursing Science and Spanish from Brigham Young University, a Masters Degree in Public Health Education at California College of Health Sciences and a PhD in Nursing Education and Leadership from UNLV and Charisma University. She has served as faculty and Professor of Nursing at the College of Southern Nevada, Nevada State College, Kaplan teaching NCLEX, Chamberlain, Brightwood College and Arizona College. She serves with International Service Learning taking nurses and students internationally offering free medical clinics to underserved communities. As a freelance speaker with OnCourse Learning, Atrain and Pesi, she has earned the Educator of Excellence Award, and has been an invited keynote speaker for nursing school graduations, nursing career fairs, nursing webinars and genealogy seminars. As a freelance author she has written several children’s health books. She married her college sweetheart and they have their own Brady Bunch of six kids who teach her what’s really important in life. PERSHING GENERAL HOSPITAL Lovelock, NV Career Opportunities for Nurses FULL TIME / PART TIME POSITIONS- ED/ACUTE RN & LTC RN/LPN Per Diem RNs needed in the ER/Acute – must have experience. RNs or LPNs needed in Long Term Care. Application and information for all opportunities available: www.pershinghospital.org 855 6th St., Lovelock NV 89419 • 775-273-2621 x202 EOE/Drug & Alcohol Free Workplace The President’s Message continued from page 1 or what you are, where you came from, or maybe your religious or even political beliefs? Reflect on that latter feeling; how did that make you feel? Did it make you feel good, or did it hurt your feelings? Was there any effect on your self-esteem? What is it that keeps us from including others? While we don't have to include everyone in everything we do, nor do we need always to exclude them either. Moreover, upon reflection of the definition of inclusivity, perhaps we can do a better job at avoiding excluding others when including them might not be that difficult. Maybe by just being more mindful of the inclusivity of our actions towards others, we can affect small changes. Our closing plenary speaker is Dr. Cindy Clark; she is an expert in all matters of civility, mainly focused on work environments. I have Kathy Ryan, RN “Organs-on-chips” technology focuses on understanding the very basis of our lives, the human cell. Although this technology is in its infancy, world-wide ongoing research suggests that science may one day describe, explain, and predict human cellular behavior so that health and illness related interventions may be tailored to individuals for best possible outcomes. Beyond that, the applications are limitless. Scientists begin by applying living human cells to microchips. The creation of membranes and channels allows the recreation of environmental, mechanical, and physiological conditions affecting cell structure, function, and interaction. Flexible chips can mimic motion such as airflow and breathing, blood flow, and muscle contraction. Once developed, chips may be evaluated as individual units, or as strings of units joined together as organs. The chips then become part of a data collection and analysis program whose results may shed light on the impact of bacteria and medications, chemicals and toxins, and more. To date, several cells and organs have been successfully modeled, Check It Out! “Organs-on-Chips” heard her speak many times, and she makes the connection between civility and inclusivity, although one could argue the relationship is more evident between incivility and exclusivity. Hopefully, Dr. Clark’s presentation will close out our convention leaving us with positive thoughts of civility and inclusivity. I look forward to seeing many of you at our upcoming convention. It should be an excellent opportunity for professional development and networking. Respectfully yours, Mary Bondmass, Ph.D., RN, CNE President, Nevada Nurses Association including blood vessels, brain, lung, heart, kidney, liver, and skin. But the degree of success varies. For example, lung models have properly responded to the introduction of triggers for both inflammation and infection. Heart models however, continue to present challenges regarding contractility and electrophysiology. One of the greatest benefits of organson-chips technology concerns “scientific” experimentation on animals. I have always wondered how testing on animals yielded results even remotely related to humans, so I look forward to the time when torturing animals for human “benefit” will cease. Perhaps organs-on-chips technology will one day reveal the secrets of the human cell, and in so doing, make us more human. For more information, please visit https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/ human-organs-on-chips/ - videos include “Human organs-on-chips” and “Small airwayon-a-chip” https://emulatebio.com/organs-on-chips/ - images of lung, liver, and intestine chips, and “thrombosis” on a chip Picture credits: Bing images Join Our Team! The Clark County School District located in Las Vegas, Nevada is currently hiring School Nurses. Interested candidates should visit our website www.teach.vegas or call us at 702-799-5427 to learn more. In CCSD, more than 320,000 students are served in a unique combination of urban and rural schools. We are searching the globe for individuals who have extraordinary passion, the keen ability to connect with students, and a relentless drive to achieve life-changing results. #1 for Kids School Nurse Positions Available
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