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8 • Colorado Nurse | May 2021 The Official Publication of the Colorado Nurses Foundation in partnership with the Colorado Nurses Association In Memory Eve Cook Hoygaard, MS,RN, WHNP If you are a nurse who has read previous issues of the Colorado Nurse, you have probably read this column about nurses who have passed away that you have worked with or otherwise known at some time in your career. Did you wonder how we knew about these losses? We depend upon receiving from families and friends of these departed nurses. We depend on other people... like you! Our criteria for information to be included requires it being about a RN or an LPN who has been educated in, lived in and/or worked in Colorado plus the date and, if available, of where they lived at the time they passed away. We appreciate provision of additional information as to where and when, they received their nursing education, degree(s), age, where they were employed, special awards (as being a Nightingale Award or nominee) are examples we consider including. For women, the issue of including their birth name sometimes is included if known... if it desired we would not include this information. We Remember Braden, Cynthia RN, BSN (73) passed away in December 2020 in Metro, Denver. She received her Bachelors Degree from the University of Michigan. Her nursing career included Ft. Logan Mental Health, Jefferson County Mental Health, National Jewish Hospital, University Physicians prior to 10 years at the University of Colorado Hospital where she worked in Oncology. Davison, Richard Keith, RN (39) passed away in Aurora Colorado in March 2021. He was a graduate of Concord Career College in 2014. Henning, Mary Boland, RN (69) passed away in January 2021. She was a nurse for many years at Knapp Elementary School, Denver. Judd, Janis B., RN, BS (77) passed away in December 2020 in Grand Junction. She was a 1966 Graduate of Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing (1966) and worked as a surgical nurse. Later, she completed a BS- Technical Management/Business from Regis College in 1985. She had lived in Boulder, CO and in Dallas, TX Light, Nedra, RN (90) passed away in Denver in March 2021. She had received her nursing license in 1946 and was an active nurse for 46 years. Her career included the Operating Room and Recovery Room areas and also as a Float Nurse. She had worked at Rose Medical Center. Mendozza, Carol Parchinski, RN (70) She was a nurse and lactation consultant. She passed away in February 2021. Morgan, Alice L, RN, (91) passed away In Colorado Springs in December 2020. While she was in High School, she worked as a nursing assistant during a polio epidemic. Next, she applied to Beth El School of Nursing, Colorado Springs where she was the first black student to be accepted. Next, she became the first black graduate of the school. Later, she became the first black head nurse hired at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. She retired after a 21 year career with the El Paso County Health Department. Payne, Kathryn Lynette, RN, (63) BSN – Rush University, Chicago, IL and a BS-Biological Sciences from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO. She later earned a law degree from Pepperdine Law School, Malibu, California. She passed away in January in Nashville, TN where she was a nurse educator and ethicist for 38 years at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt University, she was an Associate Professor of Nursing in the Center for Biomedical Ethics. Ridge, Helen, RN, MSN SN, BS (88), passed away in Littleton CO in January 2021. She completed her BSN (1950) from Stanford University in California and later received an MSN from the University of Colorado. She worked as a School Nurse in Denver from 1959 to 1987 when, as supervisor of the school nurse program, she retired. Thompson, Mary Agnes Black, RN (80) A Nurse… passed away in Aurora Colorado in January 2021. We reserve the right to edit material submitted and endeavor to verify all information included in this column. If you notice an error, please advise us and a correction will be published in the next available We appreciate your providing informations for this column. To submit information, please contact Eve Hoygaard at hoygaard@msn.com.
The Official Publication of the Colorado Nurses Foundation in partnership with the Colorado Nurses Association May 2021 | Colorado Nurse • 9 COLORADO CENTER FOR NURSING EXCELLENCE Nurses - How Are We Doing? Ingrid Johnson DNP, MPP, RN President and CEO – Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence There is more and more evidence that nurses have struggled through COVID in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. It is likely that the information around our profession’s response to the pandemic will evolve significantly over the coming year or two. It is about time for the Center, as the state’s nursing workforce center, to complete a supply/demand survey so we can more fully understand who is planning to leave the workforce in the coming years, allowing us to strategize on how to ensure we have the needed pipeline. A recent article in Medpage Today is titled: “Nurses Are Not Alright” (https://www. medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/91605). The article received survey responses from 22,000 nurses from around the country and found that 24% of nurses over the age of 34 and 36% of nurses under the age of 34 have sought mental health support since the pandemic hit last March. Additionally, 70% of nurses are in the process of getting vaccinated with another 14% planning to get vaccinated. However, the remaining 16% of survey respondents stated they either may not or will not get vaccinated at all. There seems to be a continued trend of distrust among the population regarding the vaccinations, even among nurses. This is concerning when you consider the severity of this contagion. Recently I heard someone scoffing at the general response that this pandemic has created. He suggested that because the mortality rate of the illness is generally low, a vaccine will not make much of a difference. He showed a statistic that “only” 1.8% of people die from this illness and with the vaccine the death rate will decrease to an estimate of about 1%. What he missed is that 30,000,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID since the pandemic began. Over 545,000 people in the US have died. Lowering the mortality rate to 1% from the current stats would save 245,000 lives. That is significant. Additionally, worldwide over 126,000,000 people have been infected and 2,760,000 people have died. That is a higher mortality rate (2.2%) than we are experiencing in the US, and I suspect our lower morality rate is related to the high quality of nursing care provided in this country. Nurses understand that the reason public health officials have taken such a strong stance in approaching this virus is that it is highly contagious. The more people that are infected, the more people will die, even with a generally low mortality rate. High infection rates have created high levels of stress on our healthcare system and on our profession. The health systems across Colorado are stretching themselves to try and find opportunities to support their staffs. One chief CNF Appoints New Board Members Colorado Nurses Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to the CNF Board of Directors. The new directors joined the board in January and are already hard at work on foundation activities. They are: Jeanne Burnkrant, RN, DNP, an Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and Senior Instructor at University of Colorado College of Nursing. She has more than 23 years of experience in health care and post-secondary education. Betsy Woolf, RN, MSN, owner of Paincare RN, provides individualized chronic pain care for persons with limited access to non-pharmaceutical modalities. She is certified in both Pain Management Nursing and Medical-Surgical Nursing. Betsy is also a Clinical Instructor at PIMA Medical Institute. Lisa Zenoni, RN, PhD, an Associate Professor at Loretto Heights School of Nursing at Regis University. She is the Director of Undergraduate Nursing Programs and is a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse. CNF is pleased to have these talented nurses on their Board of Directors. nursing executive told me that they are adding a self-care component to some of the performance evaluations on some of the units to test and see if self-care is considered part of a nurses job, will we begin to care for ourselves as well as we care for our patients. The Center offers a self-care support program to all health professionals across the state. Please, if you are struggling, reach out to us and participate in the “Ripple Effect” program designed to support Colorado’s nurses. We are so grateful to the wonderful nurses across Colorado and proud of how nurses have stepped up during this crisis. If you need support, we are here. Thank you for all you do! Nurse Family Partnership Nurse Home Visitor We are seeking a nurse to join our Nurse Family Partnership team. Responsibilities include case management and care coordination through home visitation for low-income, first time pregnant women and their families from early pregnancy up to the child's second birthday. This is a 20 hour a week regular position. This position requires travel within Grand County as well as some travel to Summit County. Please see program website: https://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/ MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: • BSN required • Current RN license (in good standing) required in the state of Colorado or an active RN license with a compact state. • Current CPR required • Two years recent experience in maternal/child health, public health, home visiting or mental/behavioral nursing preferred. • Home visiting experience preferred • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Basic computer skills. • Valid driver’s license and insured automobile required. • Fluent bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred Please submit resume, cover letter & Summit County Job application online at http://www.summitcountyco.gov/jobs For more information call (970) 668-9711 Equal Opportunity Employer
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