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Index:
- Education Opportunities
- Prayer List
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Parish News
- Resources
- Past Issues of Blessings
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Flu Shot Clinics
Champaign County Public Health District
Champaign County
Residents Only
October clinics are for those persons age 65 and over and those between 13-64
with a chronic illness. (Children 13-18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian)
Mahomet Community Center
508 E. Main
Tuesday, October 9
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 13
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Philo Public Library
115 W. Washington
Thursday, October 11
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 15
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Tolono Public Library
111 E. Main
Thursday, October 25
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 29
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Rantoul Civic Center
520 E. Wabash
Wednesday, October 10
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 24
10:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14
3:00—6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 28
10:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m.
FLU SHOTS—$6.00
PNEUMONIA SHOTS—$12.00
Carle
South Clinic Lobby
October 18—November 16
Monday– Friday 8:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Vineyard Church—Drive-By Clinic
October 15 7:00 a.m.— 8:00 p.m.
October 16 7:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
October 17 7:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Champaign Clinic—Drive-By Clinic
October 27 8:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Southeast Urbana
October 18 1:00—5:00 p.m
October 19 8:00 a.m.—noon
FLU SHOTS—$10.00
PNEUMONIA SHOTS—$16.00
Contact Carle Clinic at these locations for additional times and
dates—Bloomington/Normal, Danville, Effingham, Mahomet, Mattoon/Charleston, Rantoul,
Tuscola
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Clinics, Mahomet, and Rantoul Clinics as follows:
October 16—November 8
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
9:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
FLU SHOTS—$10.00
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- Culturally and Spiritually Congruent Nursing Care: Understanding Our Patients and
Ourselves
Tuesday
October 30, 2001
8:30 a.m.—4:00 p.m.
Signature Inn
3090 Stevenson Drive, Springfield, IL
Presenter:
Donna Redding, PhD, RN
Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University, Normal, IL
This program is designed for nurses, nursing home administrators and other
professionals involved in any aspect of patient care of patient care delivery design and
management. This program will address the cultural and spiritual needs of diverse groups
of patients, including how patients and families make decisions and how they set
priorities. It also covers what types of healthcare delivery settings work well for
different types of cultural preferences and how caregivers interact with culturally and
spiritually diverse patients and families.
Program objectives:
- Apply the Leininger’s Sunrise Model to assess patients’ cultural needs
- Differentiate between patients’ religious and spiritual needs
- Develop a culturally and spiritually congruent plan of care for a selected
patient
Registration Fee: $65 (advance registration is required)
Register by phone: (217) 786-2451
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A Caregiver’s Toolbox
Presented by The Alzheimer’s Association
Wednesday
November 7, 2001
8:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Holiday Inn & Conference
Center
1001 Killarney, Urbana
Educational
program for family and professional caregivers
- Identify predictors of quality of life for persons with
dementia
- Identify positive interventions to support the person
in early stages of dementia
- Discuss the experiences of the demented person
- Identify possible causes of difficult behavior
- List strategies to help people with dementia
communicate and understand others
- Report the current research trends
- Describe hormone and vaccine therapies for prevention
of plaques and tangles in the brain
- Define the affect of estrogen on the central nervous
system
- Identify practical steps of care as presented at the
National Education Conference
Registration $35 (includes lunch)
Questions—(217) 351-1726
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Caring Across Cultures
The Russell D. Acton Professional Practice
Series
Tuesday
November 13, 2001
8:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.
The Forum at Carle
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Lauren Clark, PhD, RN
Dr. Joan Engebretson, DrPH, RN
This
event is intended for registered professional nurses and advanced practitioners including
physical and occupational therapists, social workers, dietitians and speech therapists.
- Relate national and local demographic trends to the background and healthcare needs of
patients seen in clinical areas
- Describe your personal cultural background and heritage through a process of reflection
- Recognize how your personal cultural background shapes ideas of health, illness, caring,
and the sick role
- Discuss how this background may help or hinder your work with patients.
- Given clinical scenarios, identify cultural health/illness beliefs and practices that
may be neutral, health promoting or health
- Discuss the popular use of alternative and complementary therapies as they relate to
cultural pluralism and to clinical practice
- Apply knowledge about cultural aspects of health and healing to the clinical arena where
the patient’s cultural background can shape the nursing assessment, plan, and
evaluation of care
- Provide ethical and culturally appropriate services to patients in pain and in the
birthing and dying process
Registration Deadline: Friday, Oct. 26
Registration Fee: free to Carle Employees and parish nurses
For additional information call (217) 383-4036
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Non-paying participants who do not attend and do not cancel prior to the program will be
charged the $35 registration fee to defray expenses.
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Weighing the Truth
A 10-week program to Wholistic Weight
Management
Weighting The Truth is the first truly wholistic approach to weight management
and body size acceptance. The body, mind and spirit are all nourished in this ten-week
program. Participants experience a positive approach to maintaining a healthy body style
in an interdenominational atmosphere using:
- Daily Bible lessons for encouragement
- Health and nutrition lessons
- Personalized eating plan
- Regular uplifting lessons on body image and size acceptance
Facilitator notes make it easy to lead a Weighing The Truth group in your church
or community. They include general instructions, author’s Bible study notes, weekly
learning objectives for each health and nutrition plan, and a “Just for Fun”
quiz to wrap up the final week.
Some of the topics you’ll find in the 160-page manual include:
- 10 Weighing The Truth Beatitudes
(i.e., Blessed are they who start the day with breakfast—a study in metabolism.)
Satisfaction From Foods We Eat
- Deprivation Diets
- Building Better Bones
- Hormones and Appetite
- Breaking Sugar “Addictions”
- Mindful Eating
- Why is Fat So Hard To Get Rid Of?
- Emotional Eating: Changing the Response
- Compulsive Eating: Altering Behaviors
- M&M’s—Mighty Meditations
- Massage For Your Soul—verses to south and comfort
Items Available
Weighing the Truth manual with 3-ring binder ($35 + S&H)
Making Peace With Your Body audio tape ($10 + S&H )
For further information: WeighingTheTruth@aol.com
Or call Bev for a copy of the brochure
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Danville October Sharing Sessions
Thursday
October 18th
5:30 p.m.
Danville Public Library
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Prayer List
Please keep these fellow parish nurses and their
families in your hearts and in your prayers:
Aziza Awate
Cathy Faulstich
Gretchen Zedrick
Ricka Shorish
Paula Abdullah
Faith Roberts
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Carle Volunteer Sitter Program
Your main focus as a volunteer sitter will be to keep the patient safe.
Typical patient:
Responsibilities:
- Assist patient with walking
- Assist patient with eating
- Reorient patient
- Companionship
- Resource for nursing staff
Requirements to be a volunteer Carle sitter:
- 18 years of age or older
- Ability to work 4-8 hour shifts
- Completion of sitter program
- High School Diploma
Carle has designed an easy orientation program
to train the sitter for all possible situations.
Fore more information on becoming a volunteer sitter, call (217) 383-3600.
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MALLPACERS
HELP NEEDED
In
order to help you schedule ahead of time, I am listing the next three months of events.
Please call Bev at 326-2583 if you can take blood pressures for any of these events. If
you don’t have equipment, we have some available in our office.
The screenings run from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. The programs begin at 6:30 p.m. and you
are then free to leave or stay for the program.
Lincoln Square Mall—2 nurses needed
Topic: Medicare Issues
Speaker: Sandy Heath
Premier Choice Rep.
November 13
Village Mall—2 nurses needed
Topic: Healthy Holiday Eating
Speaker: Weight Management
December 18
Lincoln Square Mall—2 nurses needed
3 Year Anniversary Event
Topic: Healthy Holiday Eating
Speaker: Weight Management
January 15
We need 2 nurses for each event
Sign up now!! We need you!
- *** Please consider volunteering—
it takes just a little over an hour! ***
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COORDINATOR’S CORNER
Prayers continue in all of our congregations for the
countless lives affected by September 11th. Each day brings news too awful to contemplate.
The prayers we offer are not just of grief, sorrow and yes, anger, they are ones of
beseeching and expectancy. For many of us global citizens peace, peace of mind and freedom
from fear are in our daily missives. One of our parish nurses has relatives in Afghanistan
and we join her in praying for their safety.
Due to September 11, we canceled our bus trip to Westberg. Our thoughts were
with our families and churches and certainly not nursing conferences. J
Our fall class has begun and what a great group it is! Thanks to ALL of
you who volunteered to help with setup, breaks, lunch and continuous PRAYER for our
class. Weekend #2 begins on the 19th and I am really looking forward to it!
For someone like me who LOVES to talk, I must admit words escape me during this
terrible time. Please know you are all in my heart.
Blessings,
Faith
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HEALTH OBSERVANCES & RECOGNITION
DAYS
- November
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Prevent Blindness America, 500 East Remington Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173, (800)
331-2020 Website: www.preventblindness.org
National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, 919 North Michigan Avenue,
Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60611-1676, (800) 272-3900 Materials
available
National Diabetes Month
American Diabetes Association, 1660 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 (800) 232-3472
Materials Available Website: www.diabetes.org
November 16
GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT
American Cancer Society, National Headquarters, 1599 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA
30329-4251, (800) ACS-2345 Materials Available
Website: www.cancer.org
More Breast Cancer Awareness Month materials are available from: Great Events
Publishing, www.greateventspublishing.com or call 1-888-433-8368. **We have the catalog
available in our office if you would like to see it.**
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Great American Smokeout
November 16, 2001
The American Cancer Society's (ACS) volunteers and staff hold the
Great American Smokeout every year to help smokers quit cigarettes for at least one day,
in hopes they will quit forever. More people quit smoking on this day than any other day
of the year.
For more information about community-based activities planned for the Great
American Smokeout, contact the American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or contact your
local office.
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Tidbits of Research
Prayer and religious reading in particular can
have a calming effect that works to lower stress. Dr. Herbert Benson says that repetitive
prayer can elicit the relaxation response which in turn evokes physiological changes in
the body, slowing or lowering metabolism, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing.
The 14 year study of 84,000 female nurses shows
that by replacing just 2% of the trans fat in the diet can reduce the risk of type 2
diabetes by 40% or more. Foods typically high in trans fat are ones with the words
“partially hydrogenated vegetable oil”, snack chips, crackers, baked goods such
as cookies and muffins, and stick margarine.
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