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What's New In Nurse Recruitment and Retention...
- Nursing at Michigan Gear -
New items - Recruiting Event
- Pre-Season Plan - In the huddle: Finalizing 2013 Nurse Week options
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Nursing at Michigan Gear
~ NEW Items ~
Scrub top – new design available
Go to UMnursing.org/scrubs to purchase
Recruiting Event
Nurse Recruitment & Retention and CSR hosted a CSR Open House in February. 72 RNs attended an informational session about temporary and regular employment opportunities available in CSR.
Pre-Season Plan:
- In the huddle: Finalizing 2013 Nurse Week options
- Look for kick-off coming in May; visit www.UMnursing.org
- Quarterback sneak (peek): BIG HOUSE event coming in October!
Nominate a Colleague for an IPN Award by April 15th!
The nomination deadline for the 2013 IPN Leadership and Educational awards has been extended to April 15, 2013. These awards will be awarded at the May 8, 2013 IPN Spring Award and CE Dinner in Ann Arbor. Program information can be found here http://ipnursing.org/. Program registration will be coming soon.
Any RN candidate must either live or work in Michigan to be eligible for the nomination for either the Leadership or Educational. Self-nominations are welcomed. Please consider nominating a deserving candidate today. Information and applications can be found at the IPN website at http://ipnursing.org/ipn-awards/.
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing...
Elisha Talley, BSN, RN (PCTU) was recognized on the DAISY Foundation's national website. Check out her story here...
http://daisyfoundation.org/daisy-award/daisy-nurses/2013/03/talley_elisha_1362421920352
The team from Brandon Newborn ICU has been a key contributor to the work of the Vermont Oxford Network NICQ Improvement Collaborative. In 2013, a series of meetings called ONSITE was introduced, that will be hosted by participating teams. Michelle Nemshak, MSN, RNC-NIC and the team at UMHS, including Brenda Miller (family advisor); Bob Schumacher, MD; Rebecca Vartanian, MD; Wendy Kenyon, RN, BSN; and Sue Hieber, BBA planned and hosted the first of the ONSITE meeting at UMHS on March 1 and 2, 2013. Teams from six other NICUs in the Vermont Oxford NICQ Collaborative joined the UMHS team and staff to engage in deep contextual inquiry, designed to amplify their improvement efforts. The team at UMHS created a spectacular agenda for learning, including broad participation by NICU staff and parents in activities that took full advantage of the superb resources at UMHS.
Terri Voepel-Lewis, MS, RN, Mary Lynn Parker, MS, RN, and Connie Burke, MS, RN had an article published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, March 2013. "Pulse Oximetry Desaturation Alarms on a General Postoperative Adult Unit: A Prospective Observational Study of Nurse Response Time".
Craig Sadler, Rob Wonnacott, and John Swirple were recently mentioned in a Livingston newspaper… Click on this link to read a Livingston Daily News article about male nurses featuring Craig Sadler in pics: http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20130307/NEWS01/303070311/Male-nurses-changing-public-s-perceptions
Karen Scanlon, DNP, APRN-BC, Nurse Practitioner on the Surgical Oncology team in the Cancer Center, recently presented a poster at the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioner conference held in Lansing. The poster was titled Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Breast Cancer. Her poster won the people‘s choice award and the research award during the conference. Karen will be retiring from her position with the team 5 surgical oncology group on April 11th.
Karla Ahrns Klas, BSN, RN, CCRP (TBICU) wrote a chapter called "Burns" that was recently published in the 2013 Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 6th Edition textbook.
Donna Marvicsin, PhD, PNP-BC, CDE, Clinical Assistant Professor in Division II, was selected as the “PNP of the Year” by the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) for excellence in promoting child health, community involvement, research and promoting the role of the pediatric nurse practitioner.
Candia Laughlin has published Ambulatory Care Nursing Review Questions, Fourth Edition, through the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing. This booklet contains a set of 180 mock test items is designed to assist ambulatory care nurses assessing their knowledge of the specialty, and is a useful tool for preparation for certification.
Katie Nelson, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, Nurse Practitioner Coordinator of Research and Education for the Congenital Heart Center and Mary Lynn Parker, MS, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist for units 5A and 5C spent a week in February teaching nursing leaders and educators at LaMascota Children‘s Hospital in Managua, Nicaragua.
BSN students Evelyn Shea and Kristen Choi won awards from Midwest Nursing Research Society. Evelyn Shea was awarded the third place for her BSN poster titled, "Family Role Strain, Adolescents‘ Perceived Parental Sexual Attitudes and the Parent-Adolescent Relationship." Kristen Choi was awarded as one of the 2013 scholarship recipients at MNRS. Her abstract was titled "Family Spirituality and Communication as Protectors of Filial Efficacy and Mechanisms for Decreased Risky Behavior in Adolescents."
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