BayCare Health System May 2020 Faith Community Newsletter

Promotion Announcement Colleen Walters, vice president of BayCare Mission and Ethics, has announced the promotion of Debbie Rivard, formerly the manager of Faith at St. Anthony’s Hospital, to the new system director of Faith Community Nursing. Debbie joined St. Anthony’s Hospital in 2010 and during her tenure brought Pinellas County faith communities large and small into the Faith Community Nursing program. “Her passion for nursing, coupled with her desire to meet people in need where they are, make the perfect complement for a leader who can expand Faith Community Nursing where it currently does not exist,” Colleen said. Congratulations Debbie!

Celebrating the Year of the Nurse Greetings cherished Faith Community Nurses, As we continue the journey through COVID-19, you have risen to the challenge in not only adjusting to the many changes but also in helping to define and create our new normal. In this month of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday when we celebrate the heritage and work of nursing, how appropriate that we return to the roots of our profession in teaching and role modeling the very thing that defined Florence Nightingale’s hygiene movement in the Crimean War and from which her extensive record keeping and STATISTICS led to a massive reorganization of the British War Office. She changed the course of history as you are doing now in the communities in which you minister as Faith Community Nurses and as Congregational Health Promoters. You have had to be creative in how you do it as we are not coming together in a building on Sundays or Wednesdays or Saturdays. You have shown yourself up to the task and have rushed in to serve. Many of you have made a huge difference through sewing masks. Throughout all of our FCN programs across the system, we have distributed close to 1000 masks! You are the ones the frail, the lonely, the frightened, the uninformed have been calling when they need help. And you have responded not only to educate but to do it with a focus on the intentional care of the spirit. We are so proud to partner with you, our healthcare heroes in the community!

I am also excited to share with you, in spite of the devastation of COVID-19, we have also experienced many blessings in 2020 throughout Faith Community Nursing. You will remember we introduced you to Colleen Walters, VP BayCare Mission & Ethics last spring. She is a tireless champion of Faith Community Nursing and the work we do across the system. As a result, a system director of Faith Community Nursing position was created and posted several months ago and it is my great privilege and honor to have been promoted to that position, as you read above. It is exciting to begin a new chapter in our 29 year history of Faith Community Nursing at BayCare Health System. Many wonderful things are on the horizon and the first will be a CE webinar on the topic of Resiliency by your leadership later in May. We are currently in the process of setting up the virtual platform. More to come.

In Grateful appreciation for all you do! Deb

Page 1 News from: Morton Plant Mease May 2020

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. — Florence Nightingale

Nursing the World to Health Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820. In our time, her birthday has been recognized annually as International Nurses Day, and as the final day of National Nurses Week (May 6-12) in the U.S. This year, the American Nurses Association has expanded “our” week, naming May as National Nurses Month. The World Health Organization has declared2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the “founder of modern nursing.” In October, before the discovery of COVID-19 in China, International Council of Nurses (ICN) President Annette Kennedy announced the ICN’s theme for 2020, and some of her comments seem to be echoed today in the news, in our communities and in our workplaces: Nurses: A Voice to Lead — Nursing the World to Health “All around the world, nurses are working tirelessly to provide the care and attention people need, whenever and wherever they need it. . . . [N]urses are central to the delivery of , . . . making invaluable contribution to the health of people globally. Nurses, because of their unique role of working with people from birth to death, need to be involved in health policy.”

Our MCM FCN Partners and staff, alone, represent thousands of years of nursing experience in a wide variety of specialties and settings; working with people across the life span and in various states of wellness of mind, body and spirit, all a part of “nursing the world to health” throughout the years. We’ve also nurtured students, welcomed new colleagues and said “good- bye” to others through the years. We might not have all of our customary celebrations this month, but we can all join together in a spirit of thankfulness for this shared calling to “nurse the world to health,” locally and globally. What a blessing you are! Honoring You This Nurses Day—Week—Month—Year! Why I Became a Nurse “I had wanted to be a nurse as long as I could remember. My two sisters and I always wanted to be nurses and we all accepted the calling. Our Betsy Wetsy dolls had prick marks on their buttocks! We got little medicine carts and nursing caps and capes for Christmas. People asked us if our mother was a nurse. No-she was our father's secretary and married the boss! We all stayed in nursing our entire careers. I will reach 50 years next year and still love it. Career courses were limited in the 60's, but our choice was easy for us. We all worked in different areas: one in day surgery, one in the VA nursing home, and I in VA home care. Now as an FCN, it's a whole new gig and I'm loving working for the Lord!” — Julie Rose Julie Rose serves as a Faith Community Nurse at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Largo, and is a member of our MPM FCN Staff. Contact Information: MPM FCN Program Neppie Alexander, FCN Supervisor, 727-736-9767, [email protected] VISION: Morton Plant Mease Faith Community Nursing will be the bridge Dawn Kelly-Long, FCN Coordinator, 727-736-9762, [email protected] between BayCare and the faith communities Georgia Cuthbert, FCN Coordinator, 727-736-9761, [email protected] we serve by empowering nurses to promote Marla Winn-Wicht, Administrative Assistant, Main Office @ 727-736-9769 whole-person health and wellness in body, mind and spirit.

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A Goodbye, with Gratitude th When you are sorrowful On Friday, April 10 one of our own Faith Community Nurses, Judy Gammonley, look again in your heart, and traveled to her final resting place. In the planning and execution of her stand- you shall see that in truth you ards, Judy embraced life with vitality, creativity, caring, humbleness and Love. are weeping for that which Judy was all about giving and sharing her gifts with everyone. She was a classic has been your delight. blend of Body, Mind and Spirit. — Kahlil Gibran — By Lynn Meehan , in memory of a beloved friend and colleague

FCN Ambassador Ning Bonoan shared that her March trip to the Philippines with her husband was cut short due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic. Of the four groups they planned to visit, they were able to share the overall concept of Faith Community Nursing and Health Ministry with one enthusiastic group of seminarians at St. Paul’s Theological Seminary of the Philippine Independent Church in Guimaras Island, Iloilo, Philippines. Printed materials were shared and an automated blood pressure monitor was donated for use in the Seminary community. Let’s join Ning in her prayer that, in God’s time, the seeds planted will germinate to help others through these seminarians, once they have their own flocks to tend to. Locally, Ning serves as a Faith Community Nurse at Episcopal Church of the Ning Bonoan (front right) at St. Paul’s Theological Holy Spirit in Safety Harbor. Seminary of the Philippine Independent Church Good News from You: Help for the Vulnerable  Margaret Strickland shared that Oakhurst United Methodist Church in Seminole placed a table near the street, with bins containing food and hygiene items on it. Anyone can drive through and take what they need. Margaret reported that this “seems to be working well, both from the donation side and the people taking what they need.”  Pam Jacobson shared that Hudson First United Methodist Church has been able to continue its food pantry ministry during a time of physical distancing by adjusting food bagging processes and changing from a walk-in registration and food distribution process to a drive-through process with food delivered to an open trunk.  Lynn Meehan and retired FCN Kathie Hyde have been sewing cloth masks for health care workers.  The CARES Clinic in New Port Richey continues to serve a vulnerable population with volunteer support from several of our FCN partners. Postponed Until Further Notice FCN/CHP classes, meetings, and wellness event participation, as well as BayCare’s American Heart Association Classes, including BLS, remain postponed until further notice. Upcoming Events Tentative Schedule: We are not accepting registration at this time. June 18: Foundations of FCN Reunion Dinner and CE Event (by invitation, for those who have completed a Foundations of FCN course) July 25: Health Ministry Basics (4.5 CE) for FCN and CHP (formerly FCN Orientation)

BayCareFCN.org Page 3 News from: St. Anthony’s Hospital May 2020

Postponed Until Further Notice All FCN events and activities are postponed until further notice.

The St. Anthony’s FCN office staff: Debbie, Katrina, Ruby, Patti, Lavina, Dani, and Andrea (pictured left during a recent Skype staff meeting call) are keeping every one of you in prayer as we discuss new ways to come together to support you in your ministry, educationally, and emotionally. We look forward to finding new ways to be more social with you even though we continue to be“ spatially” distanced from each other.

A Collective Journey of Faith and Movement Submitted by Cheryl Track, RN, AD, RN-BC, Faith Community Nurse In January, First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota started on a 12-week, multigenerational, imaginary walk that encouraged church members to increase physical activity, spiritual growth, and cultural awareness through a virtual tour to Jerusalem.

Twenty minutes of any form of continual spiritual, physical or volunteer activity equaled 1 mile. Our collective miles were logged weekly with the goal of getting us from Sarasota to Jerusalem, 6,650 miles. We had 97 participants, and traveled 26,518 miles by Easter, our end date!

As you can tell by our collective miles, the program was well received. There were incentives along the way (gift cards, t-shirts, hats) and each person had a team leader that called the participant weekly to provide support and encouragement. This contact was appreciated even more once the pandemic hit. I think we may have needed this journey more than we realized before we started. 4

Even though our church’s Health and Wholeness Ministry could not have an in-person celebration, I was able to talk to the congregation during our live stream Easter service and tell them how proud I was of them. I encouraged them to stick with their routines, start making some new habits, and look for ways to challenge themselves throughout the year. Once we can meet in person, we will have an authentic wooden Jerusalem Cross from the Holy Land for each participant as a reminder of their journey.

Working From Home: A New Normal

Some of our furry four-legged friends, from L-R: Andrea’s cat Vivian, Katrina’s cat Frankie, Dani’s cat Kinsey, and Lavina’s dog Rocky, lending a helping paw, while their humans work from their home office spaces.

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St. Anthony’s Hospital May 2020

Helping Others Can Help You May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Evidence shows that helping others is beneficial for your own mental health and wellbeing. Acts of kindness, however big or small, can help you feel stronger and more hopeful, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some of the acts of kindness you have shared:

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(1) Rita Sewell has been busy sewing masks, large and small (2), for several groups in the community. She has also sent cards of thanks to health care workers at St. Anthony’s Hospital working on the front lines. (3) Cindy Charland sitting at her sewing machine, sewing scrub caps and cotton masks (5 dozen sent so far) to two hospitals in Sarasota County. She has also connected a church quilt group with1 the Salvation Army needing2 300 cotton masks. (4) Lavina Ward, FCN Coordinator, has been busy picking up completed masks, washing them, and delivering them to Pinellas Hope, and St. Anthony’s Hospital team members working in Environmental Services and Food & Nutrition. (5) Pat Hall hand-painted cards in her art class and sent them to employees and residents of a local rehab/nursing home facility. Jessica Bolhman continues to sew masks and prays over every one. Denice Higman, faith community nurse at Lutheran Church of the Cross, organized several nurses at her church with sewing talents to sew masks. They have made more than 300 so far.

We know many more of you have been of service to others and have found purpose and meaning in a myriad of ways: as prayer warriors, attending virtual church services, attending webinars on building resilience, Zoom/Facetime calls with loved ones, etc. We are so grateful to each and every one of you for your ongoing focus on the intentional care of the spirit.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others ~ Mahatma Ghandi

This year’s Westberg Symposium, originally scheduled to take place in New Mexico, was reformatted using a virtual platform when the COVID-19 stay- at-home-orders and travel restrictions took effect. Cheryl Track, FCN at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota, a panel member for the Helen Westberg Panel Plenary Session “Nursing and Clergy: Collaborating to Support and Care for Congregations,” outlined in yellow, presented from her home in Sarasota, with her PPT slides shown on the screen to the left of the panel members.

Contact Information: St. Anthony’s FCN Program Andrea Rose, Grant & Operations Coordinator, 727-825-1709/ [email protected] Vision: St. Anthony’s Faith Community Nursing will partner with faith communities Patti Carr Wolfinbarger, Nursing Coordinator, 727-820-7880/ [email protected] and empower individuals to promote whole Lavina Ward, Nursing Coordinator, 727-820-7884/ [email protected] person health through improved access to Katrina Goodrich, Transitional Care Coordinator, 727-825-1703/ [email protected] health and preventive care.

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Insert your LOGO here News from: St. Joseph’s Hospitals and South Florida Baptist Hospital May 2020

Look What’s Happening with our Ambassadors of Health!

Our FCN family continues to grow! Welcome to our latest member, Stephanie Morrison, ARNP, FNP-BC! Stephanie (pictured) joined us last month as the (NP) for La Esperanza Clinic (LEC) in Wimauma, FL. Stephanie moved from New York to Florida with her family a few years ago, and has been with BayCare for over two years. She has prior experience in Primary Care, Home Care, Medicine and Ambulatory Care. She first became interested in nursing after assisting in her grandmother’s hospice care. Later, after witnessing her mother’s newly earned career in nursing, she decided that it would be her career as well! When asked why she was drawn to the NP position at LEC Clinic, she said, “It had my name written all over it!” She loves the idea of working with the clinic and the opportunity to apply her bilingual ability to help! Whatever the circum- stances that led you to a career in nursing and moving to Florida, we’re just happy to have you, Stephanie! Welcome to our family! We’re proud to have you!

(Top right) A special thank you goes out to Patterns for Life sewing ministry of Bethany Baptist Church, Plant City, FL. Amanda Sutton, Paula del Valle, Emme Moore, Kathaleen Dean, and Diana Cutting working under the direction of Patt Perkins, have supplied more than 125 homemade masks to team members at South Florida Baptist Hospital as well as patients of La Esperanza Clinic in Wimauma. Using Titus 2:7 as their application verse, they use Jesus as the pattern for all of life.

(Bottom right) We also want to send a “shout out” to the ladies of the Land O’ Lakes United Methodist Church sewing ministry who answered the call and made over 450 masks that were distributed to various places throughout the community including their church, St. Joseph’s Hospital North, Metropolitan Ministries, Pasco County Sheriff deputies, patients of San Jose Mission Clinic, and doctors’ offices with high risk patients.

To all the ladies who participated in this special ministry, we thank you for your selfless dedication of filling a special need for your communities. Ladies, hats off to you for your generous support of this very worthy cause. Blessings on your ministry to the community. You are all greatly appreciated. Manager’s Memo Victory in the Wilderness- The Israelites were delivered out of Egypt only to find themselves in the wilderness. In the midst of the wanderings there was structure, rhythm, and rest. There was a cloud by day, fire by night, quail in the evening, manna in the morning. Exodus 16:29 states “no one is to go out.” Sound familiar?? Did that just mean they couldn’t go out to gather manna on the Sabbath or could they not go out all day? Does it resemble quarantine? Have we in a sense been delivered from our own rushing to and from to a time of wilderness journeying? Do we approach it with fear or with faith? Maybe it is a time of training, discipleship and rest, transforming us into a new creation, preparing us for a promised land. What will that look like in your life? Contact Information: St. Joseph’s/SFBH FCN Program

Linda Wilkerson, Manager, Ph: 813-757-8006 SFBH/813-356-7310 SJWH FAX: 813-872-2936 [email protected] Lora Beth Reece, Coordinator, Ph: 813-356-7319 FAX: 813-872-2936 [email protected] Darlene Winterkorn, Coordinator, Ph: 813-872-3950 FAX: 813-872-2936 [email protected] Carla Williams, Department Secretary, Ph: 813-356-7311 FAX: 813-872-2936 [email protected]

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St. Joseph’s Hospitals and South Florida Baptist Hospital May 2020

Ambassadors of Excellence/Education Programs FCN Education Meetings Please note that all FCN events have been cancelled temporarily until May 31st due to COVID-19, to include Education Meetings and Spring Fling.

BLS Recertification Please note that all BLS classes have been temporarily discontinued until further notice. Note: If your certification is expiring or has expired, the AHA has extended all expiration dates.

Links and More…. bit.ly/start3gt Take a survey with Duke University that can help with resiliency and mental health during COVID-19. This exercise allows you to focus on 3 Good Things at night so you can sleep well. For more resilience tools, visit: hsq.dukehealth.org/tools/

theconversationproject.org/covid19 Caregiver support and end-of-life tools and ideas for starting the conversation, specific to COVID-19

magellanhealth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QmmIAsdkQ72X5ud1v11mqw Stay Home for My Life Virtual Youth Fest is a resource for teens to young adults focusing on inspirational speakers, entertainment, fun activities and information on a variety of topics addressing mental health, substance abuse, foster care and other challenges. This free event promotes resiliency strategies through creative art expression and is another resource we can use to help our community. Please register at the link provided and you will receive an email for the invite. This event is held every Thursday from 1:00-2:30 pm ET.

A Prayer for This Day Open our eyes today, as we begin to see glimmers of hope and normalcy around the bend. Show us the way out of the tiredness and through the tunnel of isolation. May our hope be contagious and spread from one to another. Allow our care to light the way for the sick, for the hurting, for those at risk. We ask for a return to “normal” but not a return to complacency. Remind us that this day, we made a real difference… As a nurse or as a recruiter, as a CEO or as a PCT, as a doctor or a cook, as an office worker or a lab tech, whatever our daily tasks, we thank you that this day we touched lives in this world around us. Thank you for the privilege of entering into the world of that single person entrusted to our care. Thank you O God for placing us in the right place, at the right time, Doing what you have called us to do-serve others! Written by Margie Atkinson, DMin, BCC, System Director of Spiritual Care, BayCare Health System

On time statistics winner for March is Susie Juarez, FCN of St Mark Episcopal Church, Tampa, FL. Susie received a copy of “Gentle Rebel: The Life and Times of Granger Westberg” as a gift. Congratulations, Susie!!

Page 7 News from: Winter Haven Hospital and Bartow Regional Medical Center May 2020

National Observance

Every May, the Polk County Faith Community Nurse program offers Mental Health First Aid Training. This year it had to be postponed due to COVID-19. Brain health is so important to all of us. In Dr. Daniel Amen’s newest book, “The End of Mental Illness” he goes into great detail in Part 2: How to Create or Eliminate Mental Illness: A BRIGHT MINDS approach. Here is a brief description:

B - is for Blood Flow: Optimize the foundation of life R - is for Retirement and Aging: When you stop learning, your brain starts dying I - is for Inflammation: Quenching the fire within G - is for Genetics: Know your vulnerabilities, but your history is not your destiny H - is for Head Trauma: The silent epidemic. Protect your brain. T - is for Toxins: Detox your mind and body

M - is for Mind Storms: Soothing the abnormal electrical activity that drives mood swings, anxiety, and aggression I - is for Immunity and Infections: Attacked from inside and out N - is for Neurohormone Issues: Miracle grow for your mind D - is for Diabesity: Reverse the epidemic that’s destroying brains, minds, and bodies S - is for Sleep: Wash your brain each night to have brighter days

Acts of Kindness

Faith Community Nursing (FCN) wants to acknowledge the generosity shown by several Winter Haven faith communities. On Wednesday, April 15th team members received a boxed lunch, drink, and dessert provided by the Neighborhood Service Center and Hurst Chapel AME of Winter Haven. FCN was present to distribute hand soap sheets in compact travel cases as well as “character matters” coins to team members, including words such as: Caring, Fairness, and Respect. They were encouraged to share the coins as a pay-forward moment with other team members on their units as a way to support each other when stressful working situations arise. Also, thanks go out to the following churches for thinking of the team members in providing the following treats during these last couple of weeks:

■ Christ Community Church, Winter Haven provided citrus fruit.

■ Winter Haven Worship Center provided cookies.

Contact Info: Polk County FCN Program

Lanet Owen, Coordinator, Bartow Regional Medical Center, 863-533-8111, ext 521831/[email protected] Rev. Alfred (Joe) Ivie, Manager, Spiritual Care Department, Winter Haven Hospital, 863-297-1877/[email protected]

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