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Index:
April 2002
Westberg Symposium
Sixteenth Annual Westberg Parish Nurse
Symposium
September 25-27, 2002
Parish Nursing: Compassionate Care
Keynote Speaker: Barbara Dossey, RN, MS, HNC, FAAN
New Location for 2002:
Millennium Hotel
200 S. 4th Street
St. Louis, MO
1-866-866-8086 (toll-free)
Room Rate Approximately: $129.00
Registration materials will be mailed mid-April, 2002.
Regular Registration:
Early (Received before June 7) $380
June (Received June 8-July 5): $400
Summer (Received July 6-September 13): $420
Full Day Preconference: $200
Half Day Preconference: $100
We have free rooms and bus transportation available (to parish nurses from our program)
if you are interested in attending Westberg. Please let us know if you would like to ride
on the bus with us or will need a room.
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Caring for the Caregiver
This free seminar is designed
for adults caring for seniors.
Wednesday
June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2002
8:45 a.m.—11:30 a.m.
ManorCare
309 E. Springfield Avenue
Champaign
Learn more about:
- Caregiver stressors and responsibilities
Recognizing your feelings
- Caring for yourself
- Accessing the resources
- Putting this all together for you and your senior
Displays:
- Greater Illinois Chapter Alzheimer’s Association
- PACE
- Provena Covenant Home Health Care
- Senior Resource Center
- Senior Services of Champaign County
- University of Illinois Extension
We realize that caregiving offers very little
time. You may register for any and all sessions. Registration is limited and only for
caregivers.
FREE respite care is available at ManorCare
FREE transportation will be available through senior Resource Center
Program Schedule
Each Wednesday:
8:45 a.m. Registration, displays, refreshments
9:30 a.m.—First topic
10:15 a.m.—Break
10:30 a.m.—Second topic
11:00—Questions and Answers
Wednesday, June 5
9:30—Home Health Care
10:30—Caregivers Need Care Too
Wednesday, June 12
9:30—OT/PT Helping with Therapy
10:30—Communicating in Challenging Situations—Cammy Seguin
Wednesday, June 19
9:30—Nutritional Concerns—Lynn
Stengel, L.D.
10:30—Learning from our Emotions—Cammy Seguin
Wednesday, June 26
9:30—Medication Management—Kathy
Munday, R.Ph
10:30—Changing Relationships in Caregiving—Cammy Seguin
Follow-up help is available
Healthy Refreshments sponsored by: HCR ManorCare
Contact Provena Covenant Medical Center at 337-2022 for further information or to
register.
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Impact Arthritis 2002
Take Control . . . We Can Help
The Arthritis Foundation will present a half-day educational seminar on Thursday, May
30th, 2002 at Park Inn in Urbana from 12-5 p.m. “Impact Arthritis” will
include speakers, high tea, and exhibitors. The cost is $15 per person or $25 per couple,
which covers enrollment, refreshments, and materials. Pre-registration is required. Please
call Mary Dennis at 398-7815 for more information.
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Eli Lilly Grants . . . For special people
Lilly has announced a low-income senior citizen flat prescription fee for all Lilly
drugs—$12.00 for any 30 day supply. Seniors with incomes up to $24,000 and no
prescription coverage will be able to access the program. Lilly estimates this will help
more than 5 million elderly Americans. The program is entitled “Lilly Answers
Package.” Go to the Lilly website for more information: www.lilly.com
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The Spring 2002 Class
Jackie Bradfield - Unity
Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, IN
Barb Burlew - Philo Presbyterian Church, Philo, IL
Bryan Callaway - Charleston Community Church, Charleston, IL
Kay Carlson - Community Church of God, Danville, IL
Carol Cline - Lake Ridge Christian Church, Paris, IL
Celeste Coverdill - Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Champaign, IL
Linda Deckert - First Baptist Church, Terre Haute, IN
Jo Derby - Sacred Heart Church, Villa Grove, IL
Melissa Duszynski - Forty Martyrs Catholic Church, Tuscola, IL
Julie Fruhling - Catlin Church of Christ, Catlin, IL
Jane Furry - First Baptist Church, Paris, IL
Jodi Isbell - First Baptist Church, Terre Haute, IN
Clare Jordan - Central Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, IN
Michael McFarland - Church of the Nazarene, Rochester, IN
Barb Padgett - Lake Ridge Christian Church, Paris, IL
Merrie Ray - Memorial United Methodist Church, Terre Haute, IN
Julie Snyder - First United Methodist Church, Marshall, IL
Darcy Trego - First Baptist Church, Paris, IL
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Prayer List
Please keep these fellow parish nurses and their families in your hearts and in
your prayers:
Bev Talbott
Enid White
Pat Tymchyshyn
Lillie Davis
Carolyn Wilson
Kitty Trice
Pam Shay
Rev. Sherry Foote
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MALLPACERS - HELP NEEDED
In order to
help you schedule ahead of time, I am listing the next two 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.
Lincoln Square Mall— 1 more nurse needed
May 21
Topic: Alzheimers
Speaker: Tami Siddens
Screenings/Displays:
Alzheimer’s Association
Blood Pressure
Diabetes Risk Assessment
Lung Capacity Screening
Chair Massages
Village
Mall - 2 nurses needed
June 18
Topic: Skin Care
Lincoln Square Mall - 2 nurses needed
July 16
Topic: Skin Care
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.
Please consider volunteering —we need
you!
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STUFFEE HELPERS NEEDED—DANVILLE
Stuffee needs friends to go with him to the Fifth Annual Children's Health and Safety
Fair held in Lincoln Park, Danville. Our parish nurses helped out last year and they are
asking again for help this year. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The time can be
shared—you would only need to work an hour or two depending on how many volunteer.
Stuffee is a hand-crafted character who is
approximately 7 feet tall. When opening his bright green zipper that goes down the front
of him, his major abdominal organs can be shown as part of a fun-filled anatomy lesson.
Colorful soft sculpture reproductions of lungs, heart, appendix, stomach and other organs
are revealed by opening his bright green zipper. Stuffee's goal is to teach children about
health, nutrition, and how their bodies work.
Over 2,000 children and families attend the fair each
year. It is a delightful day of interactive activities for children.
Fifth Annual Children's Health and
Safety Fair
July 27th, 2002
10 am - 4 pm
Lincoln Park, Danville
Please call Bev at 326-2583 or Nancy Gouty at
383-4602 for more information or to volunteer.
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COORDINATOR’S CORNER
The last weekend of class is two days away and once again we will see our group
GROW as 18 nurses (including two guys, bringing our total of male parish nurses to 5J) join our ministry. I was privileged this month to give three
retreats for parish nurses in Indianapolis, Marion, IN, and Silver Spring Maryland. How
wonderful to see how parish nursing is LIVED in different regions.
Please note that our prayer list this month has several urgent needs and we
would appreciate your placing these names on your congregational prayer chains.
I was fortunate to address a conference with Dr. Harold Koenig in Omaha last
week on Spirituality Health & Medicine. It was great to meet the man whose works so
many of us have read. We have two of his books available in our library if you are
interested.
As you plan for the coming year, consider a church based prom education
program. In my travels, I am often asked to tour facilities. The last two weeks I have
been saddened by the number of teens in the ICU’s following prom accidents. Many
abstinence/chastity speakers point out that prom is an extremely risky time for girls. Why
not develop with your youth ministry teams a prom program that addresses safety,
abstinence and reinforces faith-based values?
The names of our newest members are listed in this newsletter—please hold
them in your hearts.
Blessings,
Faith
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New Videos/Books Available For Loan
The following videos are
on loan from Charlotte Peverly (Fall 1997)
- Alzheimer’s: A Practical Guide for Caregivers
- You’ve Just Been Told You Have Cancer
- Guide to Controlling Your Cholesterol
- Nutrition: Eat and Be Health
- Osteoporosis
The following books have been
added to our lending library:
- 3D—Diet, Discipline & Discipleship
- The Surgeon General’s Call to Action To Prevent and
Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 2001
- What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty
- Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for
Americans
- Multidimensional Measurement of
Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research: A Report of the Fetzer
Institute/National Institute on Aging Working Group
We also
have a 3D Starter Package for loan—donated by Connie Gewirtz (Fall 1997).
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HEALTH OBSERVANCES & RECOGNITION
DAYS
May
Asthma
and Allergy Awareness Month
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
1233 20th Street, N.W., Suite 402
Washington, DC 20036
(800) 7-ASTHMA
Website: www.aafa.org
Materials available
Better Sleep Month
Better Sleep Council
501 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 683-8371
Website: www.bettersleep.org
National Arthritis Month
National Arthritis Foundation
1330 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309
(800) 283-7800
Website: www.arthritis.org
Materials available
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Osteoporosis Foundation
1232 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 223-2226
Website: www.nof.org
Materials available
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Stroke Association
9707 East Easter Lane
Englewood, CO 80112-3747
(800) STROKES
Website: www.stroke.org
May 5-11
National SAFE KIDS Week
National SAFE KIDS Campaign
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20004-1707
(202) 662-0600
Website: www.safekids.org
June
Fireworks Safety Month (through July 4)
Prevent Blindness America
500 East Remington Road
Schaumburg, IL 60173-5611
(800) 3331-2020
Website: www.preventblindness.org
Materials available
June 7
National Cancer Survivors Day
American Cancer Society
1599 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(800) 227-2345
Website: www.cancer.org
Materials available
June 10-16
National Men’s Health Week
National Men’s Health Foundation
154-182 East Minor Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
(800) 955-2002
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First Aid Kits
SMART CARE INC PRICING
Future of First Aid™ Product Line
Product Descriptions |
Item Number |
Price |
| Complete
Systems (Industrial) |
|
|
| On the Job
Grande ( 9 packs, and Guidebook) |
ERS 100 |
$99.95 |
| On the Job
Grande (Hard case, 9 packs, and Guidebook) |
ERS 100H |
$99.95 |
| On the Job Elite
(Breathing, Bleeding, Bone, Extras, Guidebook) |
ERS 200 |
$63.95 |
|
|
|
| Re supply
Packs (Industrial) |
|
|
| Breathing Pack |
ERS 101 |
$11.00 |
| Bleeding Pack |
ERS 102 |
$ 9.00 |
| Shock Pack |
ERS 103 |
$ 9.00 |
| Head & Spine
Pack |
ERS 104 |
$ 8.50 |
| Bone Pack |
ERS 105 |
$11.00 |
| Eye Pack |
ERS 106 |
$11.00 |
| Burn Pack |
ERS 107 |
$ 8.50 |
| Bites &
Stings Pack |
ERS 108 |
$ 9.00 |
| Extras Pack |
ERS 109 |
$11.00 |
| Guidebook |
ERS 110 |
$ 6.25 |
| Wall Mounting
Bracket |
ERS 113 |
$27.00 |
| Advanced
Bleeding Pack |
ERS 112 |
$10.00 |
| Advanced Extras
Pack |
ERS 119 |
$12.00 |
|
|
|
| Complete
Systems (Consumer Models) |
|
|
| On the Move
(Breathing, Bleeding, Shock, Extras, Guidebook) |
ERS 300V |
$30.95 |
| Safe at Home
(Bleeding, Bone, Bites & Stings, Extras, Guidebook) |
ERS 300H |
$30.95 |
|
|
|
| Re supply
Packs (Consumer) |
|
|
| Breathing Pack |
ERS 301 |
$ 7.90 |
| Bleeding Pack |
ERS 302 |
$ 5.20 |
| Shock Pack |
ERS 303 |
$ 5.40 |
| Head & Spine
Pack |
ERS 304 |
$ 4.80 |
| Bone Pack |
ERS 305 |
$ 5.20 |
| Eye Pack |
ERS 306 |
$ 5.40 |
| Burn Pack |
ERS 307 |
$ 5.40 |
| Bites &
Stings Pack |
ERS 308 |
$ 4.80 |
| Extras Pack |
ERS 309 |
$ 7.20 |
Prices effective 1/01/02 and do not include shipping
Customer Service: Orders/questions: 1-888-388-4854
Web Site: www.futureoffirstaid.com
Information provided by parish nurse Jenny Trimmell (Spring 2000)
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Tidbits of Research . . .
- A recent
study bolsters evidence that the systolic blood pressure reading is better than the
diastolic number at predicting heart disease risk, even in middle-age patients.
Hypertension (140/90 or higher) affects more than 50 million US adults. In the latest
study published in Internal Medicine men with systolic readings of 160 or higher
faced more than double the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease during an average
follow-up of 14 years, compared with men whose systolic numbers were under 140.
- Another study raises the provocative possibility that
cholesterol-lowering drugs taken by millions of Americans can also ward off
Alzheimer’s disease. The study found that high cholesterol levels appear to harm the
brain and lead to mental decline and Alzheimer’s disease.
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