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Page 6 South Dakota Nurse May, June, July 2022 District News District 1, 2, 3 Report We held our first meeting of 2022 on April 14, a dinner meeting at Minerva’s. It was my first meeting since assuming the office of the President. Jeri Culbertson has resigned her office due to a move and new career move. We wish her success and we will miss her enthusiasm and direction as president. Mary Sebert, speaker for the 2021 convention, is scheduled to visit Rapid City. We hope to meet her for a dinner to celebrate her outstanding presentation. Kay Foland will be attending June ANA meeting in Washington DC, with expenses paid by ANA. Our next meeting is scheduled for May 12 5:30 pm at Minerva’s to celebrate Nurses Week. Our topic: develop to plan to support the nurses in Ukraine. Linda Wolden, RN, BSN, District 1,2,3 President lrwolden@gmail.com 605 381 1289 District 5-7 Report Hello fellow nurses, Hope all is well with you. Thank you for all that you do! Positions in leadership are available. Feel free to reach out to me via email, text, or a phone call to serve today. District 5-7 would like to invite you to our social media on Facebook. The Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/ SouthDakotaNursesAssociationDistricts57 Everyone is welcome to follow us and check out giveaways of donated prizes, news, articles, statics, and events both locally and at the state level. It will be awesome to connect with you all at Convention this year! SDNA Annual Convention is in Sioux Falls in October 2022! Sara Watson, MBA, MSN, RN District 5-7 President sara@prnpros.net Cell (605)353-5799 District 8&9 Report District 8 and 9 invited Deb Fischer Clemens to the February meeting. Deb provided information from the South Dakota legislative session. She considered the session a success for SDNA and nurses. There were eight bills passed that SDNA was involved with. Several highlights included defeating the anti-vaccine bills, increased reimbursement for Medicaid to health care and long-term care facilities. There will be a November ballot item related to Medicaid expansion. Several challenges during the legislative session included bills related to marijuana usage in health care and the certification process for physicians. In April, members welcomed several school nurses to the meeting. They updated the group on some of the current trends in school nursing as well as insight into issues school nurses are currently experiencing. Venita Winterboer, President, District 8 & 9 District 10 Report Save the Date! Oct 2 and 3 Best Western in Sioux Falls for the 2022 Fall Conference. District 10 has been busy with planning the fall conference. Our meetings are one hour in length. We try hard to keep it to one hour as we know everyone has a busy schedule. If you are looking to get involved, please join us the first Monday of the month at Scooter’s 57th and Western at 6 pm. (Our June meeting will be on Tuesday, June 21, at 6 pm at the convention location, the Ramkota on West Maple in Sioux Falls.) Can’t make the meetings but want to be involved? Send us an email and we can help find a spot for you to get involved. May is Nurse Month with the American Nurses Association. The theme this year is Nurses Make a Difference. The last two years have been hard for nurses during the Pandemic. Every day, remember you are making a difference. It doesn’t matter in what kind of nursing you work, you have a positive impact on lives every day. Gala Woitte District 10 President gwoitte@gmail.com 605-376-8639 District 11 Report District 11 met in January via zoom. Charlene Bierema, district president, led a discussion of the SDNA Health Policy Agenda and current legislative issues. Dr. Robin Brown and Dr. Brandi Pravecek presented their research entitled “Factors Associated with Nurse’s Emotional Distress During COVID-19 Pandemic.” This research project involved nurses who practiced in the state of South Dakota. A literature review identified that one in five healthcare professionals experienced anxiety and/or depression related to fear of contact with a COVID-19 positive patient, fear of contracting the illness and fear of exposing family members to the illness. Social support, a sense of control, and reduced perceived risks promoted the nurse’s well-being. Several members participated in SDNA’s Nurses Day at the Legislature 2022. This was an excellent introduction to the legislative process and review of the current bills in the House and Senate. A special thank you to the organizers and presenters as this was a very well-organized zoom conference. In March, the district meeting was again held via zoom. The program was a discussion of the 2022 legislative session by Representative Sydney Davis, Legislative District 17. An interesting program on the issues, expenditures, etc. was presented. Money was allocated to Black Hills State and Northern State to work with SDSU for increased numbers of student nurses. SETI was offered money for LPNs who serve as a feeder program for RN program. Student nurses are now paying more money for accelerated nursing programs. The EMS statutes were evaluated as the statutes are now 50 years old. The legislature paid for iPADS and AEDs to be placed in the back of all South Dakota ambulances. The State Student Nurse Conference was held in Yankton and District #11 represented SDNA at a booth. We shared information regarding ANA and SDNA. Charlene Bierema, District # 11 President Wilmont Care Center is now Hiring! DIRECTOR OF NURSING SERVICES FT- Evening/Night Nurses 8 or 12 hour shifts available Email resume to: jvanbeek@wilmotcarecenter.com or mail to Wilmot Care Center, 501 4th Street, Wilmot, SD 57279
May, June, July 2022 South Dakota Nurse Page 7 Bringing Hope To The Future...continued from page 1 “After my last high school summer, I moved to the Twin Cities to attend the Free Lutheran Bible College (FLBC). My time there was invaluable and provided me with a solid foundation and tremendous growth spiritually and as a person. I also gained a broader worldview which played into my career choice. “I saw the needs of people here in the US and elsewhere in the world and subsequently found the profession of nursing, which provided hope to meet some of these needs. At Bible College, I am surrounded by an incredible group of people and immersed in valuable studies. It was the perfect place to form the goals I still am pursuing. “My mind became set on becoming a nurse practitioner with the ambition to practice here in the US and other countries in some form of mission work. The path forward seemed to indicate SDSU as the university to obtain my nursing degree, but I was not ready to go home yet. “I discussed this with my friends. Four of my closest classmates who graduated from FLBC and I moved to Hawaii for the adventure of a lifetime. Here, I attended a small community college to start knocking out the prerequisites required for the SDSU nursing program. “I moved back to my home land and was accepted into the nursing program at SDSU. I couldn’t ask for a better nursing school experience. Still in pursuit of my final goal of nurse practitioner, I applied for grad school while in under grad and was accepted two weeks after graduation.” Goodfellow has worked in the Brain and Spine Unit at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls since 2019. The Brain and Spine Unit has all three levels of inpatient care (medical/surgical, step-down ICU, and neurocritical care). “This is a perfect location to gain a broad range of skills while gaining experience in all levels of care. I participate in the Unit Practice Committee and have obtained my national stroke certification. This unit has its challenges, but the team is top notch and it’s a great place to make a difference in the lives of patients,” he said. “Serving those who need health care the most” is Goodfellow’s number one professional goal. “I am a man who takes pride in his home state of South Dakota, this means considering where I can make the biggest difference here in this great state and finding innovative ways to change the lives of individual people and improve the care of underserved people groups.” Additionally, he seeks additional certifications in other critical care areas that interest him and enhance the DNP degree. Goodfellows doctoral project centers on implementing a neurocritical care unit for a palliative screening intervention program. “The project is basically teaching and enabling our nurses to screen for and identify any palliative needs that our patients and/ or family members may be experiencing. The needs can then be brought to the care team and addressed using a list of options available for the patient such as a care conference or a palliative specialist consult.” This project is vital to Goodfellow because of the patients it will serve. “A neuro critical care unit serves a patient population that has complicated diagnoses, difficult prognoses, and often times poor outcomes. My hope for this project is to bring important patient and family needs to the forefront of our care and to meet these needs with holistic, patient-centered care.” “It’s exciting to be taking steps towards becoming a provider while carrying with me [that which] I have learned as a bedside nurse. Having a basis of previous medical knowledge has helped greatly when diving further into healthcare issues,” said Goodfellow. “The leadership portion of the doctoral process has so far surprised me in that, it is forcing me to consider issues from a leadership perspective and to consider how the NP role can be used to its fullest extent.” It is a significant challenge to balance job responsibilities and academia. “Most floors in the nation are experiencing staff shortages due to burnout from COVID and multiple other factors so the pressure to work more as an RN makes balancing work and school extremely difficult and often times exhausting,” he said. “There is rarely time to recover from a difficult shift and there are few days where long hours of studying are required.” When she was Goodfellow’s supervisor, Alyssa Stauffacher proved to be an exceptionally supportive and helpful mentor. “She helped me every step of the way!” said Goodfellow. Stauffacher gives her impressions of meeting Goodfellow for his Brain and Spine Unit RN position interview. “From the very first moment of introductions Marcus’s evangelistic virtue was obvious through his words and his actions. Marcus doesn’t sort his life experiences into buckets: work life, personal life, worship activities, etc. Instead, Marcus is fully comfortable and is an expert at living life as a person who is true to all aspects of what is important.” She describes Goodfellow as hospitable, a listener, and compassionate. “Marcus has a beautiful ability to instantly read a situation and sense whether his approach should be calm, slow and gentle, upbeat and energetic, or fun and entertaining,” she said. His passion for healthcare and caring for people is evident to his patients and colleagues.” Stauffacher saw his passion and dedication to patients, family members, colleagues, and strangers from the very beginning of his nursing experiences. A notably responsible leader, Goodfellow takes every opportunity “to help as many people as possible as often as possible.” For example, during the global pandemic, he never showed “discouragement, exhaustion, or lack of dedication to his personal mission.” “He was at work with a smile on his face, a positive word of encouragement for absolutely everyone, and a personal toolbox of opportunities to bring hope and encouragement to everyone he interacts,” she said. Goodfellow takes commitment to his colleagues beyond the end of his work shift. For example, he initiated, arranged, and hosted a Bible study group and social events for colleagues, excluding no one. “He recognizes the daily struggle that healthcare workers experience and has had a tremendously positive and uplifting impact on his fellow coworkers,” said Stauffacher. Resilience and positivity are signature Goodfellow qualities. “We work in a career that often experiences tragedy firsthand. A person with positivity is helpful through the good times and the bad. He affects the people we work with and the patients we serve.” And the cornerstone of his personal life and nursing practice is his “spiritual views in a sense that I view each individual as loved, special, and on equal standings with myself and everyone else in terms of overall merit.” “Marcus is a truly selfless person,” said Stauffacher. “Marcus has the most incredible resilience and positivity of anyone that I’ve met, [which] allow him to instantly connect with people in a manner that involves no judgement, no agenda, just pure and honest kindness.” Goodfellows selflessness is demonstrated in serving professional organization activities at the district, region, council, state and national levels for the past five years. Service is his middle name. His appreciation of and gratitude for his parents (Connie and Dean) and his two brothers (Josh and Andrew) is evident. “They have always supported me throughout my life and academic journey.” He enjoys hunting, music, fishing, water sports, any sport on a board, mountain biking, and frisbee golf. He is open to “trying new things and experiencing different cultures.” And a good read (“textbooks of course!”), video games, spending time with friends and family, and hunting (turkey, deer, elk) are his go-to activities to renew his soul and spirit. For Goodfellow, there has never been a question of what he was supposed to do with his life? On the contrary, “I can say confidently that ever since the thought of entering the field of nursing came into my mind, I have had the blessing of knowing that there is no other place I would rather be.” Stauffacher confidently summaries Goodfellow. “He honors the nursing profession through exemplary clinical performance, outstanding selflessness and kindness to everyone and teamwork and innovation that constantly strives to better support patients and healthcare colleagues. [He] brings hope to the future of healthcare.”
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