Nebraska Yearbook - September 2020

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44 | NNA Annual Meeting AFFILIATE REPORTS of Nursing to provide evidence for a single APRN statute and scope of practice for all APRNs in Nebraska. Alignment with the APRN Consensus Model for Regulation positions Nebraska for entry into the APRN Compact which promotes provider mobility across state lines and improves access to essential health care services for Nebraskans. As a stakeholder group in the APRN 407 application process, NNP is helping to answer questions and provide data and information to the credentialing review committee. • Terry Thomas, NNP Legislative Committee Chair, attended the AANP Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC in March 2020. She lobbied the Nebraska Senators and Representatives about issues salient to NP practice; Home Health Care, diabetic shoes for Medicare patients, Cardiac Rehab and reimbursement issues. These are issues that can only be dealt with at the national level. • Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but fortunately for NPs, in early March there was a Presidential proclamation, the Cares Act, giving NPs/PAs the ability to order and manage Home Health Care for their patients. This is something that AANP has been working on for greater than 10 years. This was a permanent fix to and will not end once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. • After this proclamation, NNP worked with the BON and the Interim Director of Nebraska Medicaid to get things in place for Nebraska NPs to order DME. NNP wrote a letter to the Governor to help expedite this. Home Health Care cannot be provided without the ability to order DME. NNP would like to work with the Nebraska Medicaid department to find a permanent solution as the emergency pandemic proclamation ends. • The pandemic will change so many things and the future will be a time of great change for medical systems and for NP practice. NNP plans to stay involved as these changes occur. 3) Public Relations • The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) annual conference will be virtual this fall. A membership update was shared virtually on July 25, 2020, and updated members on important events from the year and a look ahead to the next year. • The State Excellence Awards were given and NNP wishes to congratulate Marisa L’Heureux, MSN, APRN-NP for receiving the Nebraska NP Advocate Award and Terry Thomas, MSN, APRN-NP for receiving the Nebraska NP Award. Both are well deserving of these honors! • NNP Scholarship committee awarded three $1,000 scholarships this year. We had a tie so it was decided to give three awards! Congratulations to Lauren Awe from Nebraska Methodist College, Michelle Krumland from UNMC and Michaela Ranallo from UNMC on being selected as scholarship winners! 4) Education • NNP’s annual education conference was planned for April 24-25 at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event is postponed to February 19-20, 2021 at the same location. • We were able to provide about 3.75 hours of continuing education via recorded presentations to members. These presentations are available free of charge through December to NNP members. • The 25th Annual Pharmacology conference was held virtually on July 9-10, 2020. It was broadcast to all UNMC campuses across the state. 5) Nominations • Elections were held in February. NNP welcomed Michelle Gulbrandson to the Nomination Committee. Julie Brauer was re-elected as Secretary and Jody Yank was re-elected as Treasurer. • Executive Board positions up for election in February 2021 include President-Elect, Bylaws Chair and one Nominations Committee position. On-behalf of Nebraska Nurse Practitioners, it is with special thanks to NNA for their continued leadership and advocacy activities. It is together, through such relationships that we provide a voice for our patients and our profession. Respectfully submitted, Tara Whitmire, DNP, APRN-NP, CHFN NNP President
AFFILIATE REPORTS Nebraska School Nurses Association The Nebraska School Nurse Association (NSNA) - the official Nebraska affiliate of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), continues to use our collective voice and nursing practice expertise to keep Nebraska students safe, healthy, and ready to learn. This is especially evident in these uncertain times of COVID-19 and the start of a new school year. Nebraska School Nurses are in the process of preparing for the return to school by putting in processes to ensure the identification and triage of students who may report to school with COVID-19 signs and symptoms in an effort to mitigate the spread of the novel virus. In order to mitigate the spread - school nurses are working with their district leadership, local health department and other local and national agencies to provide early identification and isolation of any student with COVID-19 signs and symptoms; and establishing guidelines on when affected students can safely return to the classroom. This work is being done in addition to the other regulatory requirements school nurses manage that optimize school-age children’s health, well-being, and ability to learn. In June 2020 - the Nebraska School Nurse Association co-sponsored the Annual Nebraska’s School Health Conference. This was offered virtually for the first time and a record number of 213 school nurses attended. In addition, Wendy Rau - who is the supervisor of health services at Lincoln Public School and also sits as a representative from NSNA on the NASN Board of Directors designed and submitted a graphic to the NASN Annual Conference depicting the work of NSNA (see attached). Being a member of the Nebraska School Nurse Association continues to be a great benefit to school nurses. As the official affiliate of NASN, NSNA members have real time access to all the resources NASN provides especially during this pandemic on best practices. Respectfully submitted, Catherine S. Heck, RN, BSN, MA Assistant Supervisor of Health Services President - Nebraska School Nurses Association October 21, 2020 | 45
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