April 2001

Russell D. Acton
Professional Practice Series

Thursday, May 10, 2001
7:30 a.m.—4:45 p.m.
At the Carle Forum

Featured Speaker:

Karen Lee Fontaine, RN, MSN

Guided Imagery—Karen Lee Fontaine
The Heart of the Matter—Marcy Harding
Chinese Qigong Self-Care—David Cowan
Massage Therapy—Julie Pendzialek

Recognize how the concepts of balance, spirituality, energy, and breath are basic to most alternative therapies.

Explain the relationship between caring for oneself and caring for patients.

Discuss changes in attitudes, behavior and physiological processes that occur through guided imagery.

Discuss how the heart provides the bridge that connects spirit, mind, and experience.

Identify and direct the Chinese health principle of Qi-vital energy.

Express basic physiological effects of massage and touch therapy.

Apply hands on message techniques to reduce muscle tension and stress for self and others.

The Acton series programs are free to Carle employees and community parish nurses. For additional information or to register call Education & Development at 383-7011 or e-mail cled.sec@carle.com

Registration deadline: April 23

Non-paying participants, cancelled and not attending the day of the presentation, will be charged the $35 registration fee to defray expenses.

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Eighth Annual Hospice Foundation of America live-via-satellite teleconference

Sponsored in our community by

CARLE HOSPICE AND
COMMUNITY PARISH NURSE PROGRAM
April 18, 2001
12:30 p.m.—3:30 p.m.
At
The Carle Forum Pollard Auditorium

Hospice Foundation of America’s Eighth Annual Living With Grief Teleconference, moderated by ABC News Correspondent Cokie Roberts, will feature a panel of experts who will discuss ways professionals can better serve family caregivers.   Panelists joining Ms. Roberts include:

Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D., Lutheran minister and professor of gerontology at the College of New Rochelle, past president of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, and Senior Consultant to Hospice Foundation of America.

Bernice Catherine Harper, MSW, MScPH, LLD, is the Medical Care Advisor of the Health Care Financing Administration and social worker, educator, lecturer, and health care administrator.  Formerly of the City of Hope National Medical Center, CA. 

Carol Levine, MA, directs the Families and Health Care Project of the United Hospital Fund in New York.  She also directs the Orphan Project: Families and Children in the HIV Epidemic and served as director for the Citizens Commission on AIDS, NY.

Susan Reinhard, RN, PhD, is Executive Director of the Center for Medicare Education, Institute for the Future of Aging Services, Washington, DC.  She is a visiting professor at Rutgers University and focuses on innovative practices in aging services.

Myrl Weinberg, CAE, is President of the National Health Council, an organization that works to bring quality health care to all people.  She works on behalf of chronic illness, disabilities, health care delivery, long-term care, and family caregiving.

With a special message from former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

To reserve a place or for more information, please call:

This program is offered free of charge

 CEUs will be available through the Hospice Foundation of America at most teleconference sites for nurses, social workers, counselors, funeral directors, clergy, psychologists, physicians and nursing home administrators. Please verify CEU availability at your local site and your professional/state board’s approval. There is a $20 CEU processing fee payable to Hospice Foundation of America.

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• Learn to identify the appropriate child safety seat for differerent size children
• Learn about different seat belt systems and other occupant restraints
• Learn to identify and remedy common misuses of child safety seats

Registration deadline is April 17, 2001. Class size is limited so don’t delay.

Prayer List

Kim Busboom
Charlotte Connerton &son
Penny Duzan
Patti Reichard
Joyce Williamson

Please call Bev at 326-2583 if you can take blood pressures at a Mall Pacer event.

From 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.

Lincoln Square Mall
May 15

Village Mall
June 19

Lincoln Square Mall
July 17

BODY WALK
April 24-25-26
8:30 am - 2 pm
National Guard Armory, 600 E University, Urbana, IL

The second weekend of our spring class is over and went extremely well. All of our faculty continue to do great presentations, including one using PowerPoint!! Enclosed in this newsletter is our 3rd weekend schedule should you want to join us for any of the sessions.

May is the month when I travel the most so feel free to leave a voice or e-mail as I do check those daily. There is no newsletter in May.

Vial of Life is a great program to launch during your town summer festivals, etc. Feel free to call Bev if you would like some kits to distribute.

Scholarship letters for Westberg go out later this week so start thinking about whether you would like to apply. Westberg is September 12-14 in Chicago. There is a group going to HMA in June and I know we will come back with many new ideas and programs to enhance our program.

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today named Elizabeth Seale as the director of the department's newly created Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Seale was formerly vice-chairman of the board of the Texas Department of Human Services.

HHS created the center at the direction of President Bush to establish a level playing field for all faith-based and community organizations applying for federal grants. The President announced his objective to launch a faith-based and community initiative in an Executive Order issued on Jan. 29, 2001.

"The President's initiative to improve funding opportunities for faith-based and community organizations has my enthusiastic support," said Secretary Thompson. "Elizabeth brings real-life experience and understanding of the important role that faith-based and community organizations play in serving the individual needs of local communities. I feel confident that she will provide the leadership and dedication necessary to realize the center's mission and to improve the breadth of services available to people at the community level."

HHS will submit its first annual report to the White House on the department's implementation of the faith-based initiative by July 29, 2001. The report will include an analysis of the barriers that prohibit full participation of faith-based and other community organizations in federal funding and proposed plans to reduce those barriers, as well as a summary of the technical assistance that HHS will make available to faith-based and community organizations to incorporate them into the department's programs. It will also include information on the development of objectives to measure the department's success.

HHS Press Office

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 (202) 690-6343

Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are available at (Document link: http://www.hhs.gov/news)

April

Alcohol Awareness Month
Contact: National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., 12 West 21st Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10010
Website: www.ncadd.org

National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Contact: National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, 200 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60604
Website:  www.parentsoup.com/library/organizations/bpd0325.html

16-22
National Infants Immunization Week
Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop E52, Atlanta, GA 30333
Website: www.cdc.gov/nip

17-23
National Minority Cancer Awareness Week
Contact: Cancer Information Service, NCI Office of Cancer, Communications, Building 31, Room 10A16, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesday, MD 20892
Website: http://cis.nci.nih.gov/

16-22
National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week
Contact: National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016
Website: www.shareyourlife.org

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
Contact: Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, 1233 20th Street NW, Suite 402, Washington, DC 20036
Website: www.aafa.org

Better Hearing and Speech Month
Contact: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
Website: www.asha.org

National Arthritis Month
Contact: National Arthritis Foundation, 1330 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
Website: www.arthritis.org

National Mental Health Month
Contact: National Mental Health Association, 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-2971
Website: www.nmha.org

National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
Contact: National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1232 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037
Website: www.nof.org

National Stroke Awareness Month
Contact National Stroke Association, 96 Inverness Drive, East, Suite 1, Englewood, CO 80112-5112
Website: www.stroke.org

National Trauma Awareness Month
Contact: American Trauma Society, 8903 Presidential Parkway, Suite 512, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-2656
Website: www.amtrauma.org

Real Mothers don’t eat quiche; they don’t have time to make it.
Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox.
Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids.
Real Mothers know that dried playdough doesn’t come out of shag carpets.
Real Mothers don’t want to know what the vacuum just sucked up.
Real Mothers know that a child’s growth is not measured by height or years or grade. . . It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mom . . .

4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything!
8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn’t really know quite
everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE ~ That old woman? She’s way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE ~ Well, she might know a little bit about it.
35 YEARS OF AGE ~ Before we decide, let’s get Mom’s opinion.
45 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wish I could talk it over with Mom.

Is not in the clothes she wears,
the figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart,
the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman
with passing years – only grows!

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Solid Ground is offering to provide training and materials for parish nurses to present abstinence to their congregations.

Solid Ground is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting abstinence as the “best choice” adolescents can make regarding sexual involvement, in and around Champaign County. We teach the physical and emotional consequences of risk behaviors, empowering adolescents to form life-long mutually faithful relationships within the context of marriage.

The Alzheimer’s Association, East Central Illinois Chapter has available for loan a wide variety of print and video items. Two new video additions include:

A Day in the Life of Nancy Moore: Caring for the Alzheimer’s Resident    (VHS, 28 minutes)
This video depicts an aide caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease in a special care unit. A subtle but persistent theme throughout the video is the recognition and validation of the critical role of the aide in determining the quality of care. (Terra Nova Films, Inc., Chicago, IL)

Creating Moments of Joy (VHS, 107 minutes)
Featuring Jolene Brackey, a nationally recognized speaker, this video shares her vision of how to look beyond the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease and focus more energy on creating positive interchanges in the daily lives of people with dementia. Three sequential video segments teach: Understanding the Person with Alzheimer’s (28 minutes); Powerful Tools to Create Positive Outcomes (39 minutes); and, Memory-Enhanced Environments (40 minutes). (Enhanced Living, Inc., Polk City, Iowa)

ANNOUNCING

2 dates—2 locations

June 4th in Urbana
And
June 11th in Danville

5:15—7:30 p.m.

Outside while the sun lasts

You, your pastor, your committee, anyone who works closely with you and enjoys FUN!

Come and see what is now a part of our program.

A thorough review of chronic pain is beneficial because more than 90% of illnesses may be accompanied by pain and 65 million Americans suffer from pain at any given time.¹ Let’s face it—no one wants to have pain. In this age of multiple available medications, remedies and therapies to treat pain, every individual can expect to have their pain “managed”.

As parish nurses, we must be prepared to assess, educate and refer care for our parishioners suffering with pain. We need to know what chronic pain is, why it must be treated, and how it is treated. We need to be aware that many people, especially older adults, believe that they can EXPECT pain as part of the aging process, and that they must learn to live with it. Often people will say they don’t have pain, simply an achiness, soreness or hurting. It is important to know the language of pain and be prepared to help people know how to talk to their doctors about pain.

When a Parish Nurse is affiliated with a healthcare organization, another key reason to address pain issues comes from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations who mandate a standard targeting pain that states, “all patients will be assessed for pain and treated or referred for relief of pain”. Just one more reason to assess and ensure appropriate management of pain for everyone.

Pain must be analyzed and then described in words that convey its characteristics. Some questions to ask as part of an assessment might include:

Where is the pain?

Describe the pain.

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the worst, rate your pain.

When did the pain start?

How long does the pain last?

Does it radiate or move around?

What makes it worse or better?

How often does it occur?

Is it associated with a particular time of day?

What relieves your pain?

Tips for Managing Pain
          Teach people how to use a pain scale

Managing pain becomes a team effort with the physician. This means that sometimes control of pain is in the patient’s hands and lifestyle changes that might include losing weight, exercising regularly, and learning stress management and relaxation techniques.

Medication may be indicated and must often be taken on a scheduled basis. The doctor needs to know if the medication helps or if there are problems with the medication. Different medicines or combinations of medicines may be needed to control pain. A referral to a pain clinic may also be indicated. Combining the physician’s skills and a commitment to follow the pain control plan may provide substantial relief of discomfort and a return for most to a full and active life.