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Page 4 Ohio Nurse March 2021 LEGISLATIVE HAPPENINGS Why Should I Care About Health Policy & the ONA Advocacy Network? Tiffany Bukoffsky MHA, BSN, RN ONA Director of Health Policy If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. The Dalai Lama sums up activism with that one quote. Each of us has a voice and we all have the opportunity and the obligation to speak up for what is right. So what does that mean, exactly, when we are talking about nursing? Did you know that among the 99 members of the Ohio House of Representatives and the 33 Ohio Senators, only a few are healthcare professionals? Of the current members, three are physicians (Senator Steve Huffman, Senator Terry Johnson, and Representative Beth Liston), one holds a Doctor of Public Health in health policy (Representative Alison Russo), one holds a Master of Public Health (House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes), one is a Family Nurse Practitioner (Representative Jennifer Gross), and one is a nurse who hasn’t had an active RN license since 1995 (Representative Diane Grendell)? Take a moment to let that settle in. Our Ohio General Assembly is made up of 132 members and only two have the education and training as a nurse, but only one holds an active registered nurse and CNP license in Ohio. However, our members show up in the “people’s house” to pass laws that directly affect patient care and the nursing Beavercreek Health and Rehab is looking for profession. Even if you forget what your high school civics class taught you about how a bill becomes a law, you know enough about the government process to realize that the majority of our legislators are passing (or not passing) laws for a profession to which they have limited experience in. Now, I obviously do not expect our legislators to become experts in every field of study, nor do I blame them for using their own personal background, knowledge, and experiences to formulate their opinion on health care and nursing. However, we have the unique opportunity as nurses to educate our members of the General Assembly. In nursing school, we are taught that it is the nurse’s responsibility to help foster autonomy, integrity, social justice and to be our patient’s advocate, but when is it ingrained within us to do the same among our peers and our profession? Who is the nurse’s advocate? How do we advocate for our own profession? As nurses, we value the dignity and worth of each human being and we tend to put others’ needs before our own. To this, I raise the questions; do you personally feel the dignity and worth of the nursing profession? Do you advocate for your own profession? Would you put your own and your profession’s needs first if it meant saving patients’ lives? If nurses aren’t advocating for their own profession, no one else will. I do not mean to sound cynical, but the concept of, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” most certainly applies to the legislative process and how decisions are made at the Statehouse. Legislators get ideas for bill proposals from their constituents, district leaders, special interest groups (like nurses), and from their own background knowledge and personal experiences. If nursing is not at the table when decisions are made, the voice of nursing will never be heard. We all know that nurses spend each day educating patients and families about disease processes, treatment options, and medications, among many other things. We also know that nurses are the healthcare experts because we are at the bedside 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So why not use this expertise to educate our members of the General Assembly? With well over 210,000 licensed registered nurses in the state of Ohio, we have the unique opportunity to advocate for our profession, patient safety, and the future of health care. Imagine if every registered nurse partnered with their elected officials and became the healthcare expert in both the House and Senate; if every registered nurse communicated regularly with the legislators in their district; if every registered nurse had a personal relationship to which a legislator felt comfortable enough to call upon when healthcarerelated legislation is up for a vote. We would be much more than a pesky mosquito or a squeaky wheel. My challenge to you is to get involved in some way. Write a letter to a legislator. Listen to the news once a week. Read the weekend newspaper. Make phone calls for a legislator you support. Help on the campaign trail. Attend an Ohio Board of Nursing meeting. Join a taskforce. Become active in your professional association. Educate your colleagues on what’s happening down at the Statehouse. Be your legislator’s expert in nursing. The Ohio Nurses Association has a couple of ways to get involved! ONA launched the Advocacy Academy and the Legislative Ambassador program five years ago. To date, ONA has trained over 100 registered nurses as Legislative Ambassadors who have been assigned to an Ohio legislative district to be the nurse expert in that area. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in joining, contact Lisa Walker for more information at lwalker@ohnurses.org. Three years ago, the ONA Policy team launched the Ohio Nurses’ Action Center and Advocacy Network. This Center is a place where you can keep up-do-date with our profession’s biggest policy issues, as well as what may be affecting health care in Ohio! You can sign up as an advocate and take action on the issues we care about most. To join the ONA Advocacy Network, text ONAADVOCATES (all one word) to the number 52886. Click on the link that you will receive in the return text message and fill out your information! The information you provide will be stored in the Ohio Nurses’ Action Center and will only be used for our advocacy efforts. Join a powerful network of nurses and nurse allies who care about advancing and protecting the nursing profession and health care in Ohio. You have nothing to lose, but the nursing profession has everything to gain. If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when? 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March 2021 Ohio Nurse Page 5 Ohio Nurse Receives ANA Diversity Award Barbara Brunt, MA, MN, RN, NPD-BC, NE-BC Ronald Lee Hickman Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP, FNAP, FAAN received the American Nurses Association Diversity in Nursing Award in October, 2020. This award was inspired by two forward thinking nurse leaders, Luther Christman and Mary Ellen Mahoney, who, through their courage and pioneering spirit, advanced diversity and inclusion in the nursing profession. By challenging the foundations of traditional thinking, they introduced diverse perspective, fostered creativity, and made a positive impact on the profession and practice of nursing. This award recognizes an individual registered nurse or a group of registered nurses for long-standing commitment and significant contributions to the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the nursing profession. Dr. Hickman is the inaugural Ruth M. Anderson Endowed Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He is known nationally and internationally for his groundbreaking research focused on testing technology-based innovations to support decision making and chronic illness management, his unwavering commitment to mentoring nurse scientists, and advocacy for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the nursing profession and its science. Dr. Hickman started his education at CWRU with a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Science and then received a Certificate of Professional Nursing. He received a Master of Science in Nursing as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and then went on to receive a Doctor of Philosophy from CWRU in 2008. He was the first African American male to graduate from the PhD program. After he completed his doctorate, he did a post-doctoral fellowship focusing on multidisciplinary clinical and translational research with the School of Nursing and School of Medicine at CWRU. In addition to being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Hickman is also an elected fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP). NAP is a non-profit organization founded in 1981 to advise government bodies on our healthcare system. This interprofessional group of healthcare practitioners and scholars is dedicated to supporting affordable, accessible, coordinated quality healthcare for all. NAP is dedicated to lifelong learning from, with, and among different healthcare professions to promote and preserve health and well-being for society. Dr. Hickman is proud of the fact that he is one of only two nurses to be recognized as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholars by the National Academies of Medicine. This three-year program, which started July 1, 2020, connects the ten selected professionals with leaders in all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Hickman said he is looking forward to the opportunity to connect with NAM members to “go beyond disciplinary silos” to see a broader view of public health and policy in America. School of Nursing Dean Carol Musil said the NAM Emerging Leaders award is indicative of Hickman’s past work and future possibilities, “but even more, it speaks to his potential for groundbreaking contributions to transforming the future of health care for this nation.” The accomplishments that led to the diversity award are too numerous to list. Highlights of his many accomplishments are listed below: • Collaborated with the Vice-President for Diversity and Inclusion at CWRU to draft the university’s first mandated training program for all faculty, staff, and students on mitigating bias. • Conducted research studies funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to promote health equity among Americans who are marginalized by society. • In addition to sustaining partnerships with minority-serving institutions to create a pipeline, served as a champion for providing the needed resources to move the needle of diversity for the profession. • Help founded a chapter of the American Association of Men in Nursing. Dr. Hickman’s technology-based interventions leverage serious game technology and conversational agents or avatars, three-dimensional digital representations of human in virtual environment, to facilitate behavior change and decision support. His technology-based interventions (eSMART-HD, eSMARTT, and INVOLVE) that incorporate avatars have been shown to significantly improve outcomes of patients and family caregivers. His innovative technology-based interventions using avatars are shifting nursing and decision science toward on-demand technology-based interventions that offer effective alternatives for clinical or paraprofessional-led support to improve self-management behavior and enhance the quality of healthcare decisions. Dr. Hickman has an impressive record of external funding and recognition. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on more than 20 research and training grants totaling over $20 million. He has disseminated his research through 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, commentaries, chapters, books and scientific presentations. Committed to mentoring nurse scientists and leaders, Dr. Hickman has served as a dissertation advisor or committee member for nearly 50 PhD and DNP students. Additionally, he has been the primary mentor to six NIH funded postdoctoral trainees. He has mentored nurses from seven different countries around the world. In his spare time, Dr. Hickman spends time with his wife and enjoys perfecting whiskey cocktails, and listening to jazz. During the pandemic he has become a Peloton cycling enthusiast. Visit ohionursesfoundation.org for more information WE DON’T JUST TREAT SYMPTOMS. We take care of the entire person. If you’re a nurse practitioner interested in psychiatric or primary care, contact us! Text ASPIRE to 89743 Or call us at (317) 587-0500
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