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The North Dakota Nurse Happy New Year it’s 2020! NORTH DAKOTA NURSES ASSOCIATION THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA NURSES ASSOCIATION Sent to all North Dakota Nurses courtesy of the North Dakota Nurses Association (NDNA). Receiving this newsletter does not mean that you are a member of NDNA. To join please go to www.ndna.org and click on “Join.” Quarterly publication to approximately 18,000 RNs and LPNs in North Dakota Vol. 89 • Number 1 January, February, March 2020 INDEX Giving Hearts Day Page 3 The Endocannabinoid System: The Body’s Great Regulator We are excited to announce that the North Nurses Association to receive BOTH a digital Dakota Nurse is going GREEN! Beginning with AND a print version as part of your membership the January 2020 issue, the publication will be benefits! available as an e-newsletter to every nurse If you have any questions or comments about Page 5 licensed in North Dakota. It will also be printed the North Dakota Nurse, please contact NDNA exclusively as a member benefit for the North Executive Director Sherri Miller at director@ Dakota Nurses Association members. ndna.org or by phone 701-335-6376. You can If you want to continue to receive a printed join the North Dakota Nurses Association for just copy of the North Dakota Nurse, you need $20.50/month at http://www.nursingworld.org/ to become a member of the North Dakota joinana.aspx. Join us today! Message from the President Year of the Nurse ANA 2019 Leadership Summit Page 10 2020! We have not only entered a new in policy dialogue and year, but a new decade! That gives us the invest in the development ability to start fresh, to set goals and to focus and increased capacity of on priorities. To start us out, the ANA the nursing workforce. This Presort Standard Enterprise has announced its intent to declaration is an extension US Postage elevate and celebrate the essential, of work initiated by the PAID robust contributions of nurses as the Nursing Now campaign to Permit #14 Princeton, MN world recognizes 2020 as the “Year of the elevate the profession and Tessa Johnson current resident or 55371 Nurse.” ensure nurses are leading According to ANA, “The World Health efforts to improve health and health care.” The Assembly, the governing body of the goal for declaring 2020 Year of the Nurse is to World Health Organization, declared 2020 encourage inclusivity and participation of all the International Year of the Nurse and nurses. Midwife, in honor of the 200th anniversary In reflecting on nursing in North Dakota and of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The our responsibility of participation and inclusivity, celebration offers a platform to recognize I believe that we are doing quite well! In all past and present nurse leaders globally, raise the visibility of the nursing profession Message from the President continued on page 2 Page 2 The North Dakota Nurse January, February, March 2020 How to submit an article for The North Dakota Nurse Official Publication of: The North Dakota Nurse! North Dakota Nurses Association Nurses are strongly encouraged to contribute to the profession by publishing evidence-based articles; however, anyone is welcome to submit content to the North Dakota Nurse. We review and may publish anything we think is interesting, relevant, scientifically sound, and of course, well-written. The editors General Contact Information: look at all promising submissions. 701-335-6376 (NDRN) [email protected] Board of Directors Deadline for submission for the next issue is 3/4/2020. Send your submissions to [email protected] or [email protected]. President Tessa Johnson, MSN, BSN, RN, CDP [email protected] President-Elect Melanie Anne Schock, MS, RN, CNE [email protected] Welcome New Members Vice President of Finance DeeAnna Opstedahl, MSN, RN, CNOR Virginia Torrelavega Marsha Resler Stansbury Cassandra Kraft Gwyn Gust [email protected] Minot Horace Fargo Jamestown Director of Membership Kami Lehn, BSN, RN Eric Leedahl Meghan Jorgenson Allison Nirschl West Janel Hodge [email protected] Fargo Leeds Fargo Fargo Director of Education and Practice Shalishah Stautz Laura Ledoux Dulcia Anderson Wendy Kopp Jerico Alicante, BSN, RN, CNN, FISQua Minot Fargo Mandan Bismarck [email protected] Rebecca Dressler Chloe Wylot Averee Zent Erica Evans Director of Advocacy Halliday West Fargo Bismarck Fargo Tania Brost, BSN, RN [email protected] Heather Ray Hailey Hamilton Lynnette Huot Nicolette Gietzen Director at Large Mandan Fargo Grand Forks Bismarck Jessica Vos, BSN, RN Nicole Burke [email protected] Minot Executive Director Sherri Miller, BSN, RN (Independent Contractor) [email protected] Published quarterly: January, April, July, and October for the North Dakota Nurses Association, a constituent Message from the President continued from page 1 member of the American Nurses Association, 1515 Burnt Boat Dr. Suite C #325, Bismarck, ND 58503. honestly, we should be proud of ourselves. Now to think about inclusivity in nursing in Copy due four weeks prior to month of publication. As nurses and members of NDNA/ANA - we our state. I want you all to ask yourselves a For advertising rates and information, please participate! I am proud to think and believe few questions. Are we inclusive? Do we have contact Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc., 517 that we come to the table when needed, we a diverse group? Do we have diversity in our Washington Street, PO Box 216, Cedar Falls, Iowa get involved and we use our voices! At this groups, in our workforce and in the areas in 50613, (800) 626-4081, [email protected]. NDNA and the Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. reserve time in our state, we have a respectful and which we work? If we can start the conversation the right to reject any advertisement. Responsibility purposeful collaboration with other nursing asking ourselves these tough questions, we for errors in advertising is limited to corrections in the entities such as the Board of Nursing and Center can then get some data. If we don’t, we need next issue or refund of price of advertisement. for Nursing. We have spoken loud enough and to do better. If we do, that’s great. According Acceptance of advertising does not imply participated enough to capture the attention to Minority Nurse (2018), “The American Nurses endorsement or approval by the North Dakota Nurses of North Dakota Governor Burgum. In example, Association (ANA) defines diversity awareness Association of products advertised, the advertisers, or the Governor’s Nursing Shortage Taskforce as as “acknowledgment and appreciation of the claims made. Rejection of an advertisement does well as the Nursing Culture Subcommittee are differences in attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, and not imply a product offered for advertising is without filled with nurses from our state who are actively priorities in the health-seeking behaviors of merit, or that the manufacturer lacks integrity, or that participating and proudly using their voices to different patient populations.” But diversity this association disapproves of the product or its use. discuss issues in nursing practice with the hopes is more than just a definition.” If we don’t NDNA and the Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. to make improvements. get the answers we like to have in our self- shall not be held liable for any consequences resulting assessment of the inclusivity in our state, then from purchase or use of an advertiser’s product. we need some suggestions on how to take Articles appearing in this publication express the opinions of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect action. Developing an inclusive and respectful views of the staff, board, or membership of NDNA or mindset starts at building strong relationships those of the national or local associations. and understanding, much like breaking down diversity barriers. While efforts have increased Writing for Publication in to teach transcultural nursing in the classroom, organizations have been created to help The North Dakota Nurse support nurses and patients where they can The North Dakota Nurse accepts manuscripts access resources and communities to help them for publication on a variety of topics related to adjust (Minority Nurse, 2018). Again, I encourage nursing. Manuscripts should be double spaced and all nurses in the state to do their part. We can submitted electronically in MS Word to director@ start by making changes in our practice and ndna.org. Please write North Dakota Nurse article processionals to be honest with ourselves. As in the address line. Articles are peer reviewed and the President of our State Association, I want to edited by the RN volunteers at NDNA. Deadlines for submission of material for upcoming North Dakota say that we want ALL nurses in our state to be Nurse are 3/4/20. heard and participate. We care and respect Nurses are strongly encouraged to contribute to the participation of nurses from different the profession by publishing evidence based articles. backgrounds, different areas of the world, If you have an idea, but don’t know how or where to various ages, various races, those who have start, contact one of the NDNA Board Members. various sexual preferences and many other The North Dakota Nurse is one communication levels of diversity and inclusion. We want you in vehicle for nurses in North Dakota. our membership, we want your voice and we Raise your voice. want your participation. Be well, we need all of The Vision and Mission of the you! North Dakota Nurses Association Year of the Nurse 2020. (2019). Retrieved from https:// Vision: North Dakota Nurses Association, a pages.nursingworld.org/yearofthenurse#about professional organization for Nurses, is the voice of The Importance of Diversity in Nursing: Breaking Nursing in North Dakota.