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Volume 29 • Number 3 July, August, Sept. 2020 UTAH NURSE The Official Publication of the Utah Nurses Association Quarterly publication distributed to approximately 38,000 RNs and LPNs in Utah. Inside The Utah Nurses Association recognizes the extraordinary, courageous and skilled efforts of all Utah nurses and other Musings of health care providers working to contain the Corona virus Caring pandemic, to care for those afflicted and to save lives. Page 6 YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! COVID-19 Pandemic UNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Impact on Utah Student 2020 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nurses Page 8 The UNA Nominating Committee seeks nominations for Wednesday, September 30 the following positions to serve for the 2021-2023 term: UNA Annual Membership Assembly via Zoom • President teleconference at which time the Slate of Candidates is • First Vice President presented to membership and candidates may introduce • Second Vice President* (Off-cycle special election themselves and speak to replace incumbent who has resigned due to Honor the relocation) Thursday, October 1 – Thursday, October 15 Nurse • Treasurer Election balloting with same online Survey Monkey • Director-at-Large (2) format as in prior years and paper option for those • Nominating Committee Member (1) without computer access Pages 10-11 UNA Members may be nominated by other UNA Monday, October 19 members or self-nominate. Elected Board Officers serve Announce Election Results via email to all UNA a two-year term beginning in January 2021. Roles and members responsibilities of each position are listed below. Most of the quarterly Board meetings are conducted virtually to Thursday, January 14, 2021 facilitate full participation across the state. Board Retreat Dinner Meeting tentatively scheduled www.utnurse.org If you are willing to serve, or would like to nominate for 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the 6th Floor Conference another UNA member, please complete and submit the Center, College of Law, University of Utah campus (may appropriate Consent to Serve/Biographical Information be converted to virtual meeting). form located at www.utnurse.org by July 31, 2020 as instructed on the last page of the form. UNA Board Positions Open for 2020 Election President Important Dates in 2020 Election Cycle 1. Shall serve as Chairperson of the Membership Wednesday, July 1 – Friday, July 31 Assembly, and Board of Directors at all scheduled Nomination Period meetings. Thursday, August 1 UNA Board of Directors 2020 Call for Nominations Announce Slate of Candidates for Election via email to all UNA members continued on page 4 Presort Standard US Postage PAID 2 From the Editor 6 Musings of Caring Permit #14 Princeton, MN 2 Utah Nightingales – Utah’s 7 GRC Report 55371 First Honor Guard 8 COVID-19 Pandemic Impact current resident or 3 President’s Message on Utah Student Nurses 4 UNF Update 9 Spotlight on Nurses 5 From the Membership 9 A Voice for Nursing Content Committee 10 Honor the Nurse Utah Nurse • Page 2 July, August, September 2020 FROM THE EDITOR 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Sharon K. Dingman, DNP, MS, RN First Vice President Stacey Shelley, RN, MSN, MBA-HCM, NE-BC Andrew Nydegger DNP RN CNE Second Vice President Andrew Nydegger, DNP, RN, CNE Secretary Peggy Anderson, DNP, MS, RN The events of the past Treasurer Linda Hofmann, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, NE-BC few months have pushed Director At Large Angela Kaplar York, RN, BSN, C-AL nurses into the forefront Blaine Winters, DNP, ACNP-BC of the public eye. Battling Claire L. Schupbach, BSN, RN, CPC COVID-19 day in and day out has been taxing and STAFF MEMBERS has pushed many nurses to their limits. Despite all that Executive Director Liz Close, PhD, RN pressure and turbulence, Editor Andrew Nydegger, DNP, RN, CNE you all proved to the world that nurses are unmatched COMMITTEE heroes. I thank you all for the hard work and CHAIRS & LIAISONS caring hearts you have By-Laws Liz Close, PhD, RN shown. Many have even traveled out of state to fight Finance Linda Hoffman, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, NE-BC the battle in the hardest hit communities. You have Government Relations CJ Ewell, MS, APRN-BC represented us well. Diane Forster Burke, MS, RN Utah nurses Katie Bates RN, Ashley Langford RN, Kathleen Kaufman, MS, RN, A-Hui Fetzer RN, and Sarah Taylor RN all went to Membership Anmy Mayfield, DNP, APRN, FNP-C Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital with the AMI group Nominating Janelle Macintosh, PhD, RN helping during the height of the crisis in New York. Education Committee Blaine Winters, DNP, ACNP-BC James Stimson CRNA and program chair of the Nurse Anesthesia program at Westminster went to UTAH NURSES FOUNDATION NYC to help out in a COVID-19 ICU. If you have been President Jodi Waddoups, MSN-Ed, NPD-BC, RN-BC, CPPS helping outside the state we would love to include Utah Nurses at Mount Sinai your name and where you are helping out in the next Beth Israel Hospital in New York issue. Please send your story to uneditor@utnurse. ANA MEMBERSHIP org ASSEMBLY REPRESENTATIVES Aimee McLean, MSN, RN Sharon K. Dingman, DNP, MS, RN Utah Nightingales – Utah’s First Honor Guard PRODUCTION Publisher Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. Utah Nightingales is a Nursing Honor Nightingale. This fee will provide the oil Editor and Publisher are not responsible nor liable for editorial or Guard to honor and recognize men lamp, white roses given to the family and news content. and women who have dedicated their pay for the website. The service we lives to the nursing profession. The provide is free to the family. Our goal Utah Nurse is published four times a year, January, April, July and Nursing Honor Guard pays tribute to is to eventually sponsor a scholarship October, for the Utah Nurses Association, a constituent member of the American Nurses Association. 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