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Quarterly circulation approximately 22,000 to all RNs, LPNs, and Student Nurses in Maine. Maine Lupins Photo courtesy of Juliana J. L’Heureux Journal Highlights SPRING 2014 President’s Message Save the Date!!! September 27, 2014 It’s a Birthday Party and You’re Invited!!! Page 3 Let’s Celebrate! by Irene Eaton Our compliments and profound gratitude to Ann Napier and her team, inclusive of Donna Policastro, Executive Sing, skip, stretch out your Director for this superb program and celebration! See the arms and twirl! We made Website for details and registration. Please register early! it through that challenging Recent reports from the American Nurses Association winter and chilly start to indicate that at least 50% of the new members joining spring. Enjoy the summer are at or under 35 years of age! Awesome! We need you, skies and gentle evenings. your energy, your vision, your in-this-age communication Grab each moment as a gift. savvy! Join us in leadership as we develop and expand While you experience the ANA’s programs in Maine. Membership dues are only spring into summer, also take $13/month. Join now at http://www.anamaine.org/ Attend a few moments to check our our Annual Meeting, Conference and Birthday Party Susan Henderson and Margaret Hourigan new ANA-Maine website and September 27th. Contact us at [email protected] to Irene Eaton Joint Resolution Recognizing the browse through the important become a part of the action. Centennial of Maine Nursing events of September 26 and 27, 2014 planned at two Moreover, our ANA-Maine historic centennial Joint Page 4 locations, thanks to interactive technology support! Ann Resolution passed in the Maine Legislature! Napier, Chairperson of the planning committee, provided Led by Representative Erik Jorgensen of Portland a vision for expanding the meeting state wide. Thanks and Representative Anne Graham of North Yarmouth, to her diligent work with the Program Committee’s who is our nurse legislator, the Joint Resolution passed support, they created a Birthday Party and program with overwhelming bi-partisan support. In the preamble, celebrating a 100 year partnership with ANA, along with the resolution reads, “Be it RESOLVED: That We, an early celebration of the Maine State Board of Nursing’s the Members of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Centennial, next year! legislature now assembled in the Second Regular Session, Begin the event at a Friday evening, September 26 on behalf of the people we represent, that this opportunity membership-only reception in Portland for the newly to recognize the 100th Anniversary of nursing practice elected ANA-President; concurrently, members from and education in the State of Maine; and be it further the north-central region are invited to a reception for RESOLVED: That a suitable copy of this resolution, duly Past President Mary Foley. Yes, the birthday celebration, authenticated by the Secretary of State, be transmitted to conference, luncheon with awards and annual meeting ANA-MAINE. Thank you, Juliana L’Heureux, chair of will be at two sites with link by teleconference. We’re the ANA-Maine legislative committee, for bringing this to State Senator “walking our talk” in efforts to shorten travel distance fruition! Kudos for picking up the ball and running with it! Emily Cain for Congress and facilitate member participation. The keynote speaker Researching our ANA-Maine centennial and the launch at the Portland site with the featured speaker at the of the Maine State Board of Nursing, an initiative that was Page 15 UMO site will be concurrent sessions; each site will also feature local speakers. This is only the tip of the iceberg. President’s Message continued on page 14 Presort Standard Index US Postage PAID A Nurse Comments on Nursing ............. 2 Nurses’ Work: Keeping Patients Safe Permit #14 Princeton, MN Editor’s Opinion ......................... 3 Parts I and II ............................ 10 current resident or 55371 Save the Date! ......................... 3 Burnout and the Registered Nurse: The Joint Resolution Recognizing the Centennial Implications of Leadership Style .............. 12 of Maine Nursing ...................... 4 Nursing Summit ........................... 13 Nurses in the News .................... 6-7 Membership Application ..................... 14 A Vision Becomes a Reality ................ 7 Poetry Corner ............................. 15 CE Calendar ........................... 8 State Senator Emily Cain for Congress .......... 15 Page 2 ANA Maine Journal May, June, July 2014 A Nurse Comments on Nursing by Annelle Beall, MSN, RN, CNN, NE-BC care unit. In addition to necessary plasma exchanges, as often as twice a day, I received red cell transfusions, chemotherapy As a master’s-prepared, with rituximab and high-dose intravenous steroids. As if the certified nurse executive, I am other effects of the TTP were not enough, I had a lacunar stroke Volume 10 • Number 2 familiar with nearly all aspects while hospitalized. (Cognitive deficits and complications are Published by the of acute care. Nevertheless, not uncommon with TTP.) Truly remarkable were the many AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION-MaINE I lacked experience from the encounters with nurses along every step of this journey to a constituent member association of the perspective of an acutely ill recovery. American Nurses Association E-mail: [email protected] patient until a recent 23-day An initial assessment of my illness in the emergency Web Site: www.anamaine.org hospitalization in Portland. department was professional, and the nurse not only cared for This experience proved to me me but for my spouse as well. He also was sensitive to the fact P.O.Box 1205, Windham, ME 04062 that competent, compassionate that as a hospital employee, I was concerned that I might receive nursing care is being practiced special treatment when admitted (something I discouraged). Annelle Beall ANA-MAINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS routinely in Maine hospitals. There is little I remember about the next 24 hours, but I Irene J. Eaton, MSN, RN, CS In early January, transient eschemic (TIA) symptoms took remember a nurse talking with me about how my blood pressure President, Kennebunk me to the emergency department. It was discovered that I had medication would need to be changed while hospitalized and [email protected] thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura (TTP). why. Patricia Boston, MSN, RN, RRT I found it difficult to keep track of time. From my admission Upon my transfer to the academic medical center, the nurse First Vice President, Biddeford to the community hospital to the first several days at the large introduced himself and provided a clear and simple explanation Juliana L’Heureux, BS, RN, MHSA academic medical center, much of the time is accessible to me of what would happen next. This was helpful as my cognition Second Vice President, Topsham as only brief moments, seemingly as in a dream, or that time is was less than adequate. He also let me know that my spouse was Rebecca Quirk, MSN, RN IV, CNL, CPON, CPSTI totally lost. I became unresponsive early in my hospitalization on the way up, which was a huge concern to me at the time. Treasurer, Scarborough at the medical center and required several days in the critical There was a night nurse in critical care that I remember very Annelle Beall, MSN, RN, CNN, NE-BC well, however. She did something that was truly remarkable. Secretary, Scarborough My spouse had gone home that night. It was early the following Jill Bixby, APRN, MS, CHPN morning, and I wanted to speak with my spouse. The nurse Director, Oakland dialed the number and gave me the phone. Having me alert Patricia Boston and asking for a specific cola beverage was one of the most Director meaningful things that could have happened for my spouse. Joyce Cotton, DNP, APRN-BC The relief of my being responsive was monumental. It is very Director, Kennebunk likely that the nurse had no idea how important that was to the two of us during this terrifying time. It is also likely that she April Giard, PMH-NP Director, Orland does this kind of thing every day. We particularly connected with one of the floor nurses when Rosemary Johnson, PhD, APRN-BC Director, South Portland I was transferred out of critical care. She explained the therapies I would be receiving from a nursing perspective, and never Catherine Lorello-Snow, PMHRN-BC assumed that she shouldn’t explain. Furthermore, she made it Director, Portland clear that our participation was crucial to the treatment plan. My opinion mattered. Even if I was not assigned as her patient, she Contents of this newsletter are the opinion of the author alone and do not reflect the official position of ANA- followed my progress when she was on duty. MAINE unless specifically indicated. We always invite When I had the stroke, in a matter of seconds, it seemed, leaders of specialty organizations to contribute. multiple individuals came into the room. I remember seeing ANA-MAINE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE the words “nurse practitioner” on neurology’s nametag. I was Juliana L’Heureux, BS, RN, MHSA (Editor) unable to voice anything but the word “stroke,” but I was trying Rosemary Henry, MS, RN Millicent G. Higgins, EdD, RN to tell my spouse that this was the “stroke team.” Oddly, I did Sue McLeod, BSN, RN, BC not feel scared because the Nurse Practitioner was so competent. Terri Matthew, RN, BSN Other nurses during my hospital stay understood how I Paul Parker, BSN, RN wanted to receive my medications was important. One nurse Jenny Radsma, PhD, RN Nancy Tarr, MSN, ANP, FNP reassured me that he would interrupt me only if it were required We welcome submissions, but we reserve the right to reject by regulation, because he knew I had experienced little sleep the submission of any article. Send to [email protected].