March 2001

SMOKING CESSATION TRAINING

A training session to learn to assess, plan, and implement treatments to help patients who use tobacco products. This includes use of carbon monoxide monitors, AHCRP guidelines, stages of changes, and other valuable information. Mark Holley of the Nicotine Recovery Services will be the instructor of this one-day class, and lunch and snacks will be provided.

Provides 7.7 INA CEU's and FREE FOOD!!!

Please join us on one of the following dates:

Thursday, March 22nd, 8:30 a.m.— 4:30 p.m. in the Physician's Conference Room at the Forum

OR

Tuesday, April 24th, 8:30 a.m.— 4:30 p.m. in the Auxiliary Conference room at the Forum

Free Adult CPR courses

Times: 8:00 a.m.—10:00 a.m. &
10:00 a.m.—noon

For site information:
Call 1-800-457-6908
or visit: www.aserve.com

 Phone in information line available March 28th. Parish Nurses may call 326-2675 to learn more information prior to 3/28 or if they have additional questions.

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.

Prayer List

Kim Busboom
Patti Reichard
Christal Albert
Marty Venvertloh
Kathie Blanchfield
Carol Smith
Connie Gewirtz
Lillie Davis
Tammy Tucker
Joyce Williamson

Please call Bev at 326-2583 if you can take blood pressures at the next Mall Pacer event in Vermilion County.

Thanks to all of you who responded so generously after the last newsletter! Our prayer support calendar filled in quickly as did calls to help with clean up, etc. I have only a few slots left for 3/31 3:30-4:30 and 4/27 8:-8:30 p.m. Please call if you can help. Also, the brochures are here for the HMA Conference so call if you would like to join us in Ohio in June. The first weekend of our course went well. Several of you have asked to “audit” or sit in for sessions you would like refreshers on and/or speakers you would like to hear. Enclosed in this newsletter is the schedule for the second weekend. You are welcome to attend any session. The classes are being held at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Urbana on Philo Road.

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Contact: Cancer Research Foundation of America, American Digestive Health Foundation, and National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
1600 Duke Street, Suite 110, Alexandria, VA 22314
Website: www.preventcancer.org

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

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.

Solid Ground is currently seeking nurses who can volunteer their time in public school classrooms by preparing and presenting a medical slide demonstration. Slides, textbook and in-service training will be provided.

ANNOUNCING

Information Line is now open for Champaign County S.A.L.T.  (Seniors and Law Enforcement Together)

Telephone line hours:
Monday—Friday
9:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m.

For information about

        -  S.A.L.T.
        -  Financial fraud
        -  Credit card and telephone scams
        -  Other senior exploitation crimes

The Senior Health Insurance Program will be sending out letters to all the Parish Nurses asking to meet with them to discuss how SHIP is being received by their congregation. It is such a great program to help Medicare patients or families understand their bills. Barb Laubenthal will be inviting you to go to lunch or have a box lunch brought to you to discuss new ways to get the word out. She is open for any and all suggestions and ideas. Please call her at 383-3362 or e-mail her at barb.laubenthal@carle.com.

Heart Disease 1,845,511
Cancer 1,128,877
Cerebral Vascular Disease 404,653
Chronic Pulmonary Disease 261,951
Pneumonia & Influenza 220,912
Diabetes 127,554
Accidents 85,197
HIV 122,496
Suicide 93,528
Liver Disease 75,837

Source: Center for Disease Control & Prevention

Tobacco 400,000
Diet/Sedentary Lifestyle 300,000
Alcohol 100,000
ChronInfections 90,000
Toxic Agents 60,000
Firearms 35,000
Sexual Behavior 30,000
Motor Vehicles 25,000
Illicit Drug Use 20,000

…...And 10 Underlying or Spiritual Causes of Death

Loneliness ?
Depression ?
Self-Esteem ?
Psychic Abuse ?
Ill-Managed Stress    ?
Loss of Self-Worth ?
Lack of Social Support ?
Sense of Abandonment ?
Little Meaning of Purpose ?
Lack of Authority ?

“How can we reduce the burden of illness and thus the need and demand for medical services? Ideally, a society of healthy people does not smoke, does not consume alcohol to excess, exercises regularly, eats wisely, uses seat belts, treats hypertension, provides other preventative health services and sees that the care at the end of life is humane.”

So What Does All This Mean to YOU!

Parish Nursing is an emerging nursing specialty which focuses on lifelong health promotion, health maintenance and illness prevention. It incorporates a wholistic view of health care, encompassing the spiritual, physical, psychological and social dimensions of nursing.

Although its roots are linked with those of the early deaconesses and nuns, parish nursing as it is practiced today originated in the 1980s through the vision of Granger Westberg, a Chicago-area hospital chaplain. By 1997, the American Nursing Association had designated parish nursing as a specialty practice. Today, there are curriculum-endorsed parish nurses throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, as well as in other parts of the world.

One Foot in Each World

“Parish nurses have one foot in the humanities and one foot in the sciences, but their focus is the faith community and it’s ministry,” says Pat Thorlton, RN, Clarian’s parish nurse coordinator. Thorlton has completed two units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Clarian: a pilot course for parish nurses and a unit on community outreach. “When a parish nurse collaborates with pastoral staff and church, synagogue or mosque members, s/he facilitates an ongoing transformation of the community into a source of health and healing,” she says.

Typical services provided by parish nurses include screenings to identify persons with risk factors for hypertension, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease and cancer, and to provide education to help reduce those risk factors. Many safety issues may be encompassed in a health ministries program, including bicycle safety, poison control, lawn mower safety and dog-bite prevention. Parish nurses also often conduct bereavement support groups or weight-loss clinics; function as a liaison between individuals and their primary care physicians or provide on-on-one health counseling.

Marcella Rogan, RN, is a Methodist Hospital neurological critical care nurse who is also a parish nurse. In addition, she has taken a unit of CPE through Clarian’s chaplaincy department. Rogan says her parish nursing activities are “A way of returning to the community some of the knowledge I’ve gained over the years. I feel compelled to return something to the community.”

Their specialized training produces benefits not just within the nurses’ assigned faith communities, but also on the campuses of Clarian Health. “Incorporation of mind, body and spirit is in every hospital mission statement I’ve ever read, but how do you do that?” says Sarah Dutkevitch, TYN/oncology nurse coordinator, IU cancer pavilion, and a parish nurse for nearly three years. “The parish nursing program gave me the knowledge, tools and encouragement to include faith in everyday interactions with patients,” she says.

Clarian A Partner

Thirteen RNs on staff at Clarian also serve their faith congregations as parish nurses. In addition, says Thorlton, “Lilllith Emmanuel, Linda Freeman, and Bobbie McCray are attending the University of Indianapolis parish nurse program. Deborah McGuire and Patricia Stewart are charter members of the parish nursing program at Marian College. All five will complete their programs next month,” she says.

“Parish nursing is a unique specialty and we’re very proud of the early direction this program has taken,” says Ann Hendrich, senior vice president of nursing and patient care services, Methodist Hospital. “It further links Clarian to the community we serve.”

Scholarships for parish nurse training are currently available through a grant funded by the Evans Center. To apply, RNs must have three years of nursing experience. In addition, says Thorlton, “Nurses must have the support of their clergy, an established relationship within a congregation, great communication skills and a high level of commitment.”