Quarterly circulation approximately 22,000 to all RNs, LPNs, and Student Nurses in Maine. Mary’s Petunias Topsham June 2012 Photo courtesy of Juliana J. L’Heureux Journal Highlights SUMMER 2014 President’s Message “I WIll Make Noise While I Can” Integrate, Innovate, Influence Page 3 Irene Bancroft, President ANA-Maine also a research associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, served as the inaugural editor- Kudos to Joyce Cotton, in-chief of ANA’s official journal, American Nurse Today, PhD, RN and Susan and is a member of the Virginia Nurses Association. Pam Henderson, MA, RN will be the Keynote speaker at the Portland site on the representatives of ANA- UNE campus on Saturday, September 27. MAINE at ANA’s Lobby Day Senator Collins received the American Nurses and Membership Assembly in Association’s prestigious Nurse Advocate Award at Washington, DC June 12-14. Lobby Day in Washington DC on June 12, 2014. It was True professionals, Joyce and my privilege to present the award and my hope that she Susan networked and voted will be available to attend the Portland VIP reception as thoughtfully after extensive an honored guest. Senator Collins is truly a senator for research. They returned all people. We are privileged and honored to be able to Irene Eaton The Last Taboo...? to Maine with a greater proclaim her as a Senator from Maine! Page 8 understanding and appreciation for structural changes that The counterpart to the Portland event, also Friday have been positioned to better serve the membership of evening September 26, is in Orono with a Members-Only our national and state associations. Thank you Susan and VIP reception for Mary Foley, PhD, RN, FAAN and Kelly Joyce! Hunt, Student Nurse at UMO’s Wells Conference Center. Annual meeting theme for this year’s conference is Mary is the featured speaker at our UMO conference Integrate, Innovate, Influence. With this in mind and to site on Saturday the 27th, Past President of the American Index better serve nurses in all areas of our vast state, this year’s Nurses Association (2000-2002), currently a member 100th Birthday Celebration, Conference and Annual of the CGFNS International Board, and Co-Lead for Lights, Camera, Action! ..................... 2 Meeting will be a two-site, teleconferenced event with the California Action Coalition to implement the IOM Legislative Summary for Maine 126th Session ... 4 speaker, service and ambience excellence at each site. Do Future of Nursing Report. Kelly Hunt is a student at the In Memoriam ............................ 5 you have September 26 and 27 on your calendar? Have you University of North Florida and the President of the CE Calendar ............................6-7 registered – if there is still space available? National Student Nurses Association. Nurses in the News ........................ 9 ANA-MAINE members, are you advantaging the no- A hot luncheon at each site will feature our Annual Kappa-Zeta at Large Sigma Theta International charge, Members-Only VIP Reception for recently elected Awards and a Celebration of 100 years of Maine nurses in Annual Meeting Board and Officers .........10 ANA President Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, membership with our American Nurses Association! See ANA-PAC Endorses Emily Cain for Congress ....11 FAAN, of Charlottesville, Virginia at the Portland Harbor the Website for registration and details at anamaine.org. Nurse History at Work June 2014 ............12 Hotel the evening of Friday, September 26 previous to ANA-MAINE membership has grown >60% over the Membership Application ...................13 ANA-MAINE’S conference on the 27th? Pam Cipriano is past year. We are pleased to have infrastructure that will A Nurse’s Prayer .........................13 senior director at Galloway Advisory by iVantage, which free nurse leadership to focus on professional issues and The Comfort Garden: helps hospital groups, health care payers and providers Tales from the Trauma Unit ...............14 improve their operations, outcomes and profits. Cipriano, ANA News ...........................14-15 President’s Message continued on page 12 Presort Standard US Postage PAID Centennial Annual Meeting Permit #14 Princeton, MN current resident or 55371 September 27, 2014 at the University of New England and University of Maine in Orono Check Upcoming Events at http://www.anamaine.org Page 2 ANA Maine Journal August, September, October 2014 Lights, Camera, ACTION! How Musical Theater Enhances Nursing Practice by Debra Kramlich MSN, RN, CCRN members of an ensemble in a local production for which she was serving as musical director. I wondered if I still Volume 10 • Number 3 As nurses, we have to be had it in me after nearly 25 years! I was so anxious at Published by the bold and brave, always ready first, but she quickly put us all at ease, and I had a blast! AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION-MaINE for the unexpected. I was reminded of how much I enjoyed the process, from a constituent member association of the American Nurses Association My experience as a nurse a bunch of strangers bumbling and fumbling through lines E-mail: [email protected] and performer with musical to a well-polished production. Web Site: www.anamaine.org theater have prepared me for a I quickly realized that amid the work of nursing, P.O.Box 1205, career of caring. mothering and various other responsibilities I had taken Windham, ME 04062 In theater, no matter what on, I had left no room for hobbies or artistic expression in happens, the show must go my life. I enjoyed performing in that show so much that ANA-MAINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS on! Audience members attend I decided I wanted to do more. I wondered how I would Irene J. Eaton, MSN, RN, CS performances for various find the time, and if I was being selfish, and if I really had President, Kennebunk Debra Kramlich [email protected] reasons, often to leave their what it took to audition for roles. I would quickly learn that worries behind for a few hours. being a nurse had prepared me for the challenge and that Patricia Boston, MSN, RN, RRT Similarly, patients come to our attention because the experience would enhance my nursing practice in ways First Vice President, Biddeford they also need relief. We care for people at their most I never imagined. Juliana L’Heureux, BS, RN, MHSA vulnerable, encountering situations that are unpleasant For the past 10 years I’ve been singing with a wonderful Second Vice President, Topsham and sometimes frightening. Despite how we might feel women’s choir founded by the music director who first Rebecca Quirk, MSN, RN IV, CNL, CPON, CPSTI inside, we maintain our composure and offer compassion invited me back into musical theater, where I’ve gained the Treasurer, Scarborough and empathy. Our patients and their families need us to confidence to pursue dreams I never thought possible. I’ve Annelle Beall, MSN, RN, CNN, NE-BC be fully present and engaged in their care. When being also sung with other well-respected choral organizations Secretary, Scarborough part of a performance, whether acting or singing, you in the Greater Portland area and gathered the courage to Jill Bixby, APRN, MS, CHPN have to leave your personal life offstage and step into audition for the opera. I’ve successfully auditioned for Director, Oakland your role. The audience is there to be entertained, which roles such as Auntie Em and Glinda in “The Wizard of Patricia Boston can only happen if we are believable and they can connect Oz” (I came full circle!), the Widow Corney in “Oliver,” Director with our characters. A performance is only as good as Ethel McCormack (Ren’s mother) in “Footloose,” young Joyce Cotton, DNP, APRN-BC the chemistry among the performers. You have to listen Scrooge’s mother in “A Christmas Carol – the Musical,” Director, Kennebunk carefully for cues from your fellow actors and to the other and, my personal favorite, Golde in “Fiddler on the Roof” April Giard, PMH-NP singers to achieve good flow, blend and balance. (I seem to be typecast as a mother…). I was also invited Director, Orland In health care, it takes good communication among by a friend who is an accomplished playwright to perform Rosemary Johnson, PhD, APRN-BC in the world premier of one of her musicals. I’ve had to the team members to produce the best outcomes for our Director, South Portland patients; listening is integral to effective communication. stretch myself in those roles, learning to be someone Hours of memorization and practice are necessary to completely different. As I tell the students in my nursing Catherine Lorello-Snow, PMHRN-BC Director, Portland produce a good show; rehearsals can be long and tedious leadership course who have a hard time believing they and frustrating, and just when you think you’ve nailed must all be leaders as nurses, you have to “act as if” you Contents of this newsletter are the opinion of the author it, the director decides to change a scene. The same can are already that person. Theater has reinforced my ability alone and do not reflect the official position of ANA- be said of nursing education and practice! The parallels to do just that. MAINE unless specifically indicated. We always invite between musical theater and nursing practice are limited Musical theater has brought balance back into my life. leaders of specialty organizations to contribute. only by your imagination. I’ve learned that I cannot be an effective care provider, ANA-MAINE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE I’ve performed musically for almost as long as I can teacher and leader if I do not first care for myself. Music Juliana L’Heureux, BS, RN, MHSA (Editor) feeds my soul.