Phone 334-262-8321 alabamanurses.org Nurse March, April, May 2018 • Volume 45 • Issue 1 Provided to Alabama’s Nursing Community and Funded by the Alabama State Nurses Association. Quarterly publication direct mailed to more than 84,000 Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses in Alabama Alabama State Nurses Association • 360 North Hull Street • Montgomery, AL 36104 Inside Alabama Nurse SAVE THE DATE ASNA 2018 ANNUAL CONVENTION October 4-6, 2018 Leadership Grand National, Opelika, AL Academy 2018 Page 8 Plan for the 2018 ASNA Convention at the Auburn/Opelika Marriott Grand National Resort as part of a Family Vacation! More info at alabamanurses.org Elizabeth A. Morris Clinical Education Sessions – FACES ‘18 Pages 9-12 IndexNurse Alabama Nurses Foundation .................... 5 Clinical News ............................ 16-19 Continuing Education ......................... 13 ED’s Notes ................................. 3 Elizabeth A. Morris Clinical Education Sessions – FACES ‘18 ................................ 9-12 Happy Nurses Week! .......................... 5 Leadership Academy 2018 ..................... 8 Nurse Helps Centenarian Patient’s Legal Corner ................................ 4 LPN Corner ................................. 4 Dreams Come True Membership News .......................... 6-7 Centenarian Frank Calloway’s in 2014. In the 1970’s patients at trip to the opening of his Bryce were no longer allowed President’s Message .......................... 2 art exhibit, at the American to “work in the fields / farms” Visionary Art Museum in that had provided food for the Baltimore, could not have hospital since the Civil War. happened without his nurse. It Rather, they stayed indoors Non-Profit Org. could not have happened, in fact, and did “arts and crafts.” Mr. U.S. Postage Paid without a long line of nurses Frank began drawing scenes he Princeton, MN that assisted him over the years. remembered from his childhood Permit No. 14 current resident or “Mr. Frank” (as he liked to be on long rolls of butcher paper called) has passed on now, but with pencil, pens and crayons this incredible story you are about (the art supplies for the patients). to read lives on through his art Mr. Calloway and his Nurse This became his daily pass-time and through those who knew for many years. In 2008, his him. (The story was publicly disclosed...so no HIPPA works of art came to the attention of a museum curator violations). in Baltimore. They decided to dedicate an entire wing Frank Calloway was admitted into Bryce Hospital of the museum to display Mr. Frank’s work. He was in Tuscaloosa in 1952. He lived at the state psychiatric hospital, or one of the campus facilities, until his death Centenarian Patient’s Dreams continued on page 4 Page 2 • The Alabama Nurse March, April, May 2018 The President’s Alabama message nurse Are You a Member? ASNA Board of Directors President Rebecca Huie, DNP, ACNP Rebecca Huie, RN, DNP, ACNP as the President for ASNA. This experience took a lot President-elect Sarah Wilkinson, DNP, RN ASNA President out of me with the exhausting emotional days and nights Vice President Linda Gibson-Young, PhD, CRNP, at her bedside wondering what her outcome was going FAANP Greetings Alabama Nurses! to be, whether for the better or worse. Balancing my Secretary Lindsey Harris, DNP, FNP-BC I hope you are all having a time between my mom, work, and family was definitely great 2018! ASNA has already a challenging experience. But, the things that made it Treasurer Wanda Spillers, DNP, RN, CCM started planning a busy and bearable was my faith in God, prayer, family, and the District 1 Donna Everett, MSN, BS, RN productive year. We began wonderful nurses who cared so diligently for her when I District 2 Jackie Williams, DNP,MSN, RN the New Year by planning was there and when I had to be away. There were definitely District 3 Wanda Spillers, DNP, RN, CCM for Nurses Day at the Capitol some very special nurses who went above and beyond to District 4 Bridget Moore, DNP, MSN, MBA on February 28, 2018. By the make my mom feel at ease, kept me informed of what District 5 Wade Forehand, DNP, RN-BC time you read this article, was going on, and provided me with comfort when I had this event has already taken to be away during the day to go to the office. I remember Commission on Professional Issues: place. I sincerely hope you one day, I was napping in the chair beside my Mother’s Sarah Owens Watts, PhD, RN, Chair were there to enjoy the robust ICU bed, when a nurse (Brandon) who was not even Parlimentarian: Sue Morgan, PhD, RN speakers and the Rally on the assigned to my mother brought a blanket into the room Capitol steps in Montgomery, and draped it over me as I was sleeping in the chair. This Alabama. This event is so memorable, and you just have to small gesture of caring and compassion meant so much ASNA Staff be there to feel the energy in the air, as hundreds of nurses to me. It made me so proud to be a nurse. Many of the and future nurse’s rally together. This is truly a prominent nurses on my mother’s care team displayed such kindness, Executive Director, Dr. John C. Ziegler, MA, D. MIN demonstration to show the influence of the nursing thoughtfulness, and concern for her and for me. The nurses Director Leadership Services, profession to State Representatives and Senators when we from the floor who stand out to me the most are Ashley, Charlene Roberson, MEd, RN, BC all come together as one profession, one voice. The energy Titiana, DuYoung, Andrea, Jennifer, and Fallon. However, ASNA Attorney, Don Eddins, JD from being present among hundreds of nurses rallying all of the nurses were amazing, as well as her entire Programs Coordinator, April Bishop, BS, ASIT at the Capitol is profound. If you have never experienced healthcare team. Andrew, the Nurse Practitioner also went Continuing Education Coordinator, this, I encourage you to plan to attend in 2019! This above and beyond to stop by several times during his shift event is organized by the Alabama Coalition of Nursing to check on my mother and discuss her medical condition Katie Drake-Speer, MSN RN Professions that encompasses many professional nursing with me. Thank you to UAB Highlands ICU nursing staff organizations. So, regardless of your nursing specialty, and healthcare team for caring not only for my mother Our Mission plan to be a part of this in the future. through this scary ordeal, but for me as well. ASNA also held the Board of Directors retreat in The Alabama Nurse goes out to over 95,000 nurses in ASNA is committed to promoting excellence in nursing. February and the Board members gathered to review the state of Alabama, but ARE YOU A MEMBER OF the 2017-2018 strategic plans, assess our progress, ASNA? I asked this question to several of the nurses who Our Vision and incorporate new initiatives into the plan for this were caring for my mom, and most of the responses were upcoming year. In 2017, the ASNA BOD developed “no.” The reasons varied and included responses such as; ASNA is the professional voice of all registered nurses the two year plan that included increasing visibility, they just haven’t taken the time to join, didn’t know the in Alabama. collaboration, membership and service. ASNA has made benefits of joining, or used to be a member years ago. huge progress in each of these areas during the past Many of these nurses told me that they have been in the Our Values year. For detailed information on our 2017 progress, visit nursing field for less than three years and some less than a www.alabamanurses.org and read “A Look Back at Our year. However, there were nurses that have been nurses for • Modeling professional nursing practices to other Amazing Year” under the news tab. many years that were not members. This informal survey nurses On a personal note, I would like to share a firsthand continues to perplex me. Why would a nurse NOT be a • Adhering to the Code of Ethics for Nurses experience of the compassion and dedication from nurses. member of ASNA, their very own nursing professional • Becoming more recognizably influential as an My mother was recently hospitalized for 22 days. She organization that represents over 95,000 nurses in their association spent 18 of those days in ICU. This was a challenging home state? Hopefully, it is just because they do not realize • Unifying nurses experience for me, as I am an only child and her primary the benefits of being a member. So, I will share another • Advocating for nurses caregiver. My Dad passed away many years ago, so she personal perspective on my ASNA membership and how • Promoting cultural diversity only has me to care for her when she is sick. I have a busy being a member has helped me, both personally and • Promoting health parity job with a huge amount of responsibility and an obligation professionally. I think the most meaningful and cherished • Advancing professional competence benefit that ASNA has given me are the friendships that I • Promoting the ethical care and the human dignity of have developed with nurses in various locations across the every person state of Alabama. A true friendship is a valuable gift, and • Maintaining integrity in all nursing careers to have nurse friends I can rely on who live hundreds of miles away is a pretty impressive benefit of ASNA. This is all a result of the networking that ASNA offers through Advertising various venues and events that are held during the year.