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<strong>March</strong> <strong>2021</strong> The <strong>Wisconsin</strong> <strong>Nurse</strong> Page 15<br />
Grant Updates<br />
WNA Chronic Disease and Prevention Grant Update<br />
WNA Introduces Patient-Centered Team-Based Care Educational Video<br />
WNA has produced an educational video for APRNs, other nurses and health<br />
care providers about the benefits of using team-based care to prevent, detect,<br />
and manage hypertension and high cholesterol. The video provides a conceptual<br />
model of patient-centered team-based care and the various workflows and<br />
processes that can be implemented in the primary care setting to address<br />
patient needs and services. The 25 minute video serves as an adjunct to two<br />
WNAs landmark documents: Patient-centered Team-Based Care in <strong>Wisconsin</strong>:<br />
Working Conceptual Model, Interprofessional Clinical Hypertension Expert Panel<br />
Recommendations, and Using Patient-Centered Team-Based Care to Improve<br />
High Cholesterol Prevention, Detection, and Management in <strong>Wisconsin</strong>. All of<br />
these documents are located on the WNA website under the “Practice” tab.<br />
Your health tomorrow depends on what<br />
you do today. Don’t put off your care.<br />
<strong>March</strong> 24 is Diabetes Alert Day –<br />
Focus on Benefits of Diabetes Self-<br />
Management Education and Support<br />
Programs<br />
In recognition of Diabetes Alert<br />
Day, WNA has issued a video “Diabetic<br />
and pre-diabetic care involving<br />
Certified Diabetes Educators in Disease<br />
Management.” This presentation<br />
is a live recording from the August<br />
18, 2020 Virtual WNA APRN Clinical<br />
Pharmacology Update that also includes<br />
questions from the participants and<br />
responses.<br />
The presenter is Jean Roedl, Family<br />
<strong>Nurse</strong> Practitioner. Jean has over 20 years’ experience as a practicing <strong>Nurse</strong><br />
Practitioner. Her practice is focused on Advanced Diabetes Management<br />
and holds certification as a certified diabetes educator. Jean is from Webster,<br />
<strong>Wisconsin</strong> and is one of the health care staff for a Tribal clinic. Part of Jean’s<br />
1½ hour presentation includes information and benefits of referring patients<br />
with Diabetes to Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support programs<br />
(DSMES). Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) provides<br />
an evidence-based foundation to empower people with diabetes to navigate<br />
self-management decisions and activities. DSMES is a cost-effective tool proven<br />
to help improve health behaviors and health outcomes for people with diabetes.<br />
(Citation: Diabetes self-management education for adults with type 2 diabetes<br />
mellitus: A systematic review of the effect on glycemic control. Patient Education<br />
and Counseling, Vol. 99, Issue 6, June 2016, Pages 926-943<br />
Faleash Gallagher,<br />
WNA Grant Project<br />
Coordinator<br />
Meet WNA’s Grant Project Coordinator<br />
WNA is very fortunate to bring on our new 1815<br />
Grant Project Coordinator consultant, Faleasha K.<br />
Gallagher BSN, RN. Faleasha brings her knowledge<br />
and care of hospitalized adults. She is in the process<br />
of completing her Master’s Degree in Public Health<br />
through the UW-Madison School of Public Health<br />
and Nursing. Faleasha will be involved in our grant<br />
activities promoting DSMES, Team-Based Care and<br />
Self-Measured Blood Pressure.<br />
Most things in life have to wait right now. But your<br />
health isn’t one of them. While some people can<br />
make sure their health is on track with a phone call or<br />
video chat, others need to come in. If you have an inperson<br />
visit, there are extra precautions to create a safe<br />
environment for you and your family. Your health care<br />
will help you decide the approach for your needs.<br />
WNA Partners with <strong>Wisconsin</strong><br />
Medical Society on Public<br />
Service Announcement<br />
Perhaps you have seen the television public service announcements, Stay<br />
Healthy <strong>Wisconsin</strong>, that are sponsored by WNA and the <strong>Wisconsin</strong> Medical<br />
Society. The purpose of the PSA is to increase awareness of the public to schedule<br />
an appointment with their health care provider. This is important as individuals<br />
with chronic health diseases have not followed up with NP or physician. This is<br />
resulting in a high volume of acute care hospitalizations needing very intensive<br />
nursing care related to hypertension, high cholesterol or diabetes. There are<br />
radio PSA’s targeting the Latinx population. Grant dollars are allocated to get this<br />
message out.<br />
This is the third year of five of the 1815 Center for Disease and Prevention,<br />
<strong>Wisconsin</strong> Department of Health Services, <strong>Wisconsin</strong> Division of Health Grant<br />
awarded to WNA.
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