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www.utahnursesassociation.com The official newsletter of the Utah Nurses Association February, March, April 2013 Quarterly circulation approximately 28,000 to all RNs, LPNs, and Student Nurses in Utah. Volume 22 • Number 1 Inside President’s Message Kathleen Kaufman, RN, MS GRC tab on the UNA website. Please look over these President reviews frequently so that you may act according to the best interests of nurses and healthcare in Utah when you January 1st, 2013 marks contact your state senator or representative. Any member the beginning of my term as interested in working with the GRC committee to review your president. I welcome bills should call or email the UNA office as soon as the opportunity to serve the possible. (Most of this work is done online.) An effective members of the Utah Nurses nurse is an involved nurse! Maliheh Clinic Volunteer Site Association, the nurses of This coming year will also be a year of preparation for Utah, and the citizens of the 100 year anniversary of the Utah Nurses Association. Page 5 Utah who require healthcare. Your board welcomes your input regarding appropriate My service is broad, activities to celebrate this event. Please contact us via including informing you email at [email protected] or by a letter to the editor of issues, discussing those of The Utah Nurse so that others can see your suggestion issues with you, and also for celebration of UNA’s 100th birthday. We welcome all representing you in various ideas and encourage you to think creatively. Naturally we pubic formats. I welcome Kathleen Kaufman also welcome broad participation in the selected events input at all stages of my that will occur in 2014. work for you. Until we circulate another Survey Monkey regarding Changes within our national organization, the desired topics in the Utah Nurse, we will continue to cover American Nurses Association, will begin to directly the previously introduced topics of volunteer activities affect the Utah Nurses Association this year as the first that nurses engage in as well as continued articles on meeting of the Membership Assembly will occur in June HEAL Utah….Healthy Eating, Active Living in Utah. Of 2013. The first two representatives will be appointed by course, The Utah Nurse will continue to publish issues the UNA Board of Directors. Subsequently there will and announcements regarding all nursing events in Utah. Nursing Grant-In-Aid Scholarships be two representatives elected by the membership as Encourage your specialty organization to contact us with Page 10 has been done in the past with the House of Delegates news information. representatives. In the new Membership Assembly, The December ANA Board of Directors introduced each state will have two representatives and their voting the first topic of the professional issue panel’s focus: strength will be weighted based on the number of members The Development of a Framework for Care Coordination in the state. Throughout the year of 2013, smaller states, Quality Measures. This timely topic will require the such as Utah, will be meeting to determine what multistate input of many informed, active nurses. The members of divisions will work most advantageously for each state. I the professional issue panel will be chosen by the ANA will keep you apprised of the progress in this regard by administration following the submission of applications means of The Utah Nurse and also with reports posted on from interested nurses. The call for applications went the UNA website. Ongoing meetings involving leaders in out on January 7th. That is approximately a month ago. each state will no doubt produce interesting and effective Information has been sent out to UNA/ANA members results. The new multistate divisions will go into effect in so that they could apply to work with this panel whose 2014. first meeting will probably be in March. The ANA Join Utah Nurses This is a year of many changes to health care across the plans a rapid turn-around time for selection of this first Association today! country and therefore across Utah. More people will have professional panel. These professional panels replace access to health care than in the past as the Affordable the former Council on Professional Practice which Care Act is gradually implemented. The possible previously dealt with specific practice issues. The expansion of Medicaid benefits to the most vulnerable of professional panel members will work until they resolve Application on page 9 our citizens, those with the least assets to pay for health their current focus or issue and then will be retired. This care will have implications for many nursing settings and should allow more members to be active in areas of their facilities. A coalition of advocates and providers, Utahans interest without forcing them to serve for prolonged for Medicaid Expansion (U4ME), has formed periods of time. to support the Medicaid expansion. Our recent The American Nurses Association encourages you to Presort Standard email survey of UNA members indicated strong stay abreast of practice issues that you believe the national US Postage association should address. Please convey these ideas PAID support for Medicaid expansion in our state and a Permit #14 willingness by those responding to have UNA sign directly to the ANA at www.nursingworld.org or discuss Princeton, MN on as a supporter of this effort. Thank you for your them with UNA board members who can forward the idea current resident or 55371 input on this current issue. to the ANA. You can be the effective nurse for change in New reimbursement to providers and facilities your area of specialty. may well herald changes in these settings for the I will keep in touch with you and your concerns in as better. Some of these issues have been resolved at many ways as possible. Feel free to contact me through the federal level, but some will be determined by the UNA office at 801-272-4510, at [email protected], or actions at the Utah State Legislature. Imminent most effectively at [email protected]. If or proposed healthcare bills will be reviewed by you are emailing to my Gmail account, please put “UNA the UNA Government Relations Committee who business” in the subject line. Thanks so much, I look will post regular reviews of these bills under the forward to working with you! Page 2 • Utah Nurse February, March, April 2013 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Kathleen Kaufman, RN, MS Past President Donna F. Richards, PhD, RN PUBLICATION President Elect Audrey M. Stevenson, The Utah Nurse Publication Schedule for 2013-2014 PhD, MPH, MSN, FNP-BC First Vice President Stephanie Lee Slater, RN, MSN/ED Issue Material Due to UNA Office Second Vice President Jody Wolfe, RN, BSN, MBA May/June/July 2013 March 11, 2013 Secretary Peggy H. Anderson, RN, MS Aug/Sept/Oct 2013 June 10, 2013 Treasurer Karen de la Cruz, RN, MSN, AACNP/FNP Nov/Dec/Jan 2014 September 9, 2013 Feb/Mar/Apr 2014 December 10, 2013 STAFF MEMBERS Guidelines for Article Development NIGHTINGALE Office Manager Lisa Trim The UNA welcomes articles for publication. There is Director of Continuing Education Sandra Haak, PhD, RN no payment for articles published in the Utah Nurse. Lobbyist Justin Stewart 1. Articles should be microsoft word using a 12 point font. TRIBUTE Editor Jody Wolfe, RN, BSN, MBA 2. Article length should not exceed five (5) pages 8 x 11 The basic Nightingale Tribute to be offered in 3. All reference should be cited at the end of the article. a nurses funeral will take about two minutes COMMITTEE/COUNCIL 4. Articles (if possible) should be submitted electronically. to deliver and can fit in many different areas of any funeral service. The words, pronouns and CHAIRS & LIAISONS Submissions should be sent to: By-Laws Donna Eliason, RN, MS, CNOR content can and should be changed to meet the Continuing Education Sandra Haak, PhD, RN [email protected] circumstances. The presentation of a white rose Finance Karen de la Cruz, RN, MSN, AACNP/FNP or by the speaker or by all nurses in attendance is an Government Relations Attn: Editorial Committee optional salute to the nurse. To read and print the Membership Committee Utah Nurses Association basic tribute, please go to: http://www.ksnurses. Nominating Committee Patricia Rushton, PhD, ANP, AONP 4505 S. Wasatch Blvd., Suite 330B com/the-nightingale-tribute.html or go to the Sharon K. Dingman, MS, BSN, RN Salt Lake City, UT 84124 Kansas State Nurses Association and look under Phone: 801-272-4510 the publication tab. UTAH NURSES FOUNDATION Fax: 801-272-4322 President Marianne Craven, PhD(c), RN PRODUCTION Publisher Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. Editor and Publisher are not responsible nor liable for editorial or news content. Utah Nurse is published four times a year, February, May, IN MEMORIAM August, November, for the Utah Nurses Association, a constituent member of the American Nurses Association. Utah Nurse provides a forum for members to express their opinions. Views expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those of the members of the UNA. Articles and letters for publication are welcomed by the Mindee Lee Olsen—Passed away September 21, 2012. a practicing nurse for many years and went on to teach editorial committee. UNA Editorial Committee reserves the She attended Weber College School of Nursing in Ogden nursing at Holy Cross School of Nursing. The second half right to accept of reject articles, advertisements, editorials, and received her BS Degree in Nursing. She worked in of her career was spent in health care administration with and letters for the Utah Nurse. The editorial committee Orem and in Provo as Nursing Director for two health I.H.C.